Example sentences of "up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 2 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 3 | The Scott report , published in 1942 , urged the setting up of a planning system embracing the countryside as well as the town , mainly with a view to preserving the best agricultural land from urban development , but also recommending the setting up of national parks . |
| 4 | It is too cautious a view , and the evidence is clear from many studies that the earlier the individual is seen the more likely he is to end up with a patent vessel following thrombolysis . |
| 5 | Another resolution would force Mr Urban to come up with a merger proposal involving Pirelli 's tyre business in time for Continental 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 6 | Steffi had planned in 1990 to take a break in the Caribbean after Wimbledon , but ended up in a hospital bed having her sinuses worked on instead . |
| 7 | Although different , I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London . |
| 8 | These factors add up to a teaching force facing rising demands on its skills with falling numbers . |
| 9 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |