Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1072 William led a large army up to Stirling , forded the river there , and rode on to join up with his fleet entering the Tay . |
| 2 | Quarks bind together to make up larger particles such as the protons and neutrons found in the atomic nucleus . |
| 3 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 4 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 5 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 6 | His father Mr Keith Worby said tonight : The people I blame are the ones who get young people to go along to make up numbers . |
| 7 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 8 | Not only did they need somewhere to put up visiting employees ( and , increasingly , the necessary but not always welcome journalists ) they now needed a showcase for their home furnishing ideas . |
| 9 | Instinct told her to find somewhere to lie up , so she turned unsteadily into the shelter of the trees . |
| 10 | What is unusual is for a number of neighbouring schools to pull together to set up what Anne Mountfield describes as an ‘ education innovation trust ’ . |
| 11 | Conveniently , Donald John MacDonald , Manager of Castlebay Branch , was waiting to help me fill in the hour before the Glasgow based Loganair Twin Otter was due to come in to pick up those flying on to Tiree and Glasgow . |
| 12 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 13 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 14 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 15 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 16 | He went back to tending his cows , and , looking at me as he bent down to pick up his bucket , he said , ‘ I am Monsieur Saulnier . |
| 17 | She kicked aside some of the mess , bent down to pick up a crisp packet , dropped it again and leaned against a wall , overwhelmed . |
| 18 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 19 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 20 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 21 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 22 | Ten days later , when the agents moved in to round up their targets , El-Jorr checked out and returned to Cyprus , charging the hotel bill to his American Express card as instructed . |
| 23 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 24 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 25 | And would n't it be ironic if John Smith , after much agonising about Labour 's soul and purpose , bit the bullet , and , abandoning what many say was the reason for failure last time , promised not to put up taxes — and nobody believed him . |
| 26 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 27 | A newly created ethical committee is to meet soon to draw up guidelines for WWF International 's investment committee , which is likely to agree to a large-scale transfer of funds . |
| 28 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 29 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 30 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |