Example sentences of "would [vb infin] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , early on 14 August , stalls selling souvenirs , all kinds of religious objects , sweets , primitive toys , salamis and cheese would spring up in the approaches to the Santuario . |
| 2 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 3 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 4 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 5 | Soon , they would catch up with the sun and obscure it . |
| 6 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 7 | We would line up across the parade ground , shoulder to shoulder , and in a slow forward walk , eyes fixed on the ground , would pick up any cigarette ends or pieces of paper on the gravel . |
| 8 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 9 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
| 10 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 11 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 12 | ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day . |
| 13 | Of course there was nothing to guarantee that the soup you were canning would measure up to the quality or taste of Mother 's , nor that other soup canners would not make the same sales appeal . |
| 14 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 15 | That is not to underplay the contribution of the other members of the quartet : all are heard here in ( mainly ) Jackson compositions and all make solidly individualistic contributions in advance of the more formal direction that Lewis would take up with the MJQ . |
| 16 | Explain and justify the options you would take up in the case of : even additions ; random additions ; , grouped additions ; no additions . |
| 17 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 18 | Er and when the Yorkshire contingent did n't come through here , you 'd get the er er er Notts er contingent , which er would join up with the Derbyshire contingent , er a wee bit a wee bit lower down , wee bit lower down the er er down the country , so er in every er in every er activity against er unemployment , they 'd the locals who were who were obviously involved . |
| 19 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |
| 20 | Without this control the world would be in madness and we would end up with the laws of the jungle , where the strongest wins . |
| 21 | Since there was no picture with June 's letter I was not aware that I would end up with the cable I was looking for . |
| 22 | To add to the stigma of the wicked stage , the men also feared that their daughters would end up on the streets of Paris . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , all the light would end up on the floor ! |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I knew this would end up in the papers sooner or later . ’ |
| 25 | When a group of anti-embargo Americans organised a flotilla of 13 boats carrying aid to church organisations in Cuba from the Florida Keys on April 24th , right-wing groups were convinced that the stuff would end up in the hands of Mr Castro and the armed forces . |
| 26 | The bottles would therefore go back to the company , which would only pay one deposit on each bottle but the deposit would end up in the hands , not of the purchasers of the soft drinks , but of the defendants . |
| 27 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 28 | As the campaign developed Kinnock 's image as a man who would stand up to the USSR declined throughout the electorate , even amongst Labour supporters , though it declined slightly more amongst Conservative supporters . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I would wear my thick coat because it might be cold waiting for the bus and it would stand up to the rain . |
| 30 | The same with the signalmen , I would go up to the signalman and tell him , Well on the other shift you know , they would have left that train away first , before they left that other one in you see . |