Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pisteur outdid them on his day off by skiing the top section of the mountain nonstop all day and notching up at least 130,000 vertical . |
| 2 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 3 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 4 | After lunch a town patrol is called to meet up with today 's ‘ Wire ’ patrol at Gatow Ranges . |
| 5 | It was good to meet up with so many others plus mates from the list . |
| 6 | Behind the empty and desolate bar , stood the solitary figure of Tim , the barman , calmly tearing up at least half-a-dozen pages of unpaid drinks in the name of Denis O'Neil . |
| 7 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 8 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 9 | No party has yet owned up to actually revealing the identity of five-year-old Jennifer Bennett of Faversham , Kent , who waited 11 months for an operation for glue ear . |
| 10 | This , I suggest , is what has been happening up to now . ’ |
| 11 | er at the moment I was n't wanting to s s change any anything that , which is been happening up till now , I mean if people do want to come in here at weekends or late I do n't see any reason |
| 12 | People who are little horrors in school quite often grow up into all right individuals . ’ |
| 13 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
| 14 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 15 | Patricks denied that Asynchronous Transfer Mode support was a change of heart for DEC , which has up to now focussed on FDDI but , he said , ‘ it might be a change of public statement ’ . |
| 16 | The other models are the liquid-cooled Cray C94 , the eight-processor liquid-cooled Cray C98 , and an expansion of the 16-processor Cray C916 system , which was introduced way back in November 1991 and has up to now been marketed as the Cray Y-MP C90 . |
| 17 | The other models are the liquid-cooled Cray C94 , the eight-processor liquid-cooled Cray C98 , and an expansion of the 16-processor Cray C916 system , which was introduced way back in November 1991 and has up to now been marketed as the Cray Y-MP C90 . |
| 18 | It will be necessary to introduce a distinction , which has up to now not been needed , between two kinds of element relevant to lexical semantics . |
| 19 | In a statement issued on Nov. 23 , during a meeting with a high-level Iraqi delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and Foreign Minister Muhammad Said Kazim al-Sahhaf , the Security Council had maintained that " Iraq has up to now only selectively and partially complied with the obligations placed upon it " . |
| 20 | Jalalabad has up to now disproved this theory . |
| 21 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 22 | Such computers have , of course , to stand up to more extreme environmental conditions than in the application areas described above . |
| 23 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 24 | Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside . |
| 25 | Skipper has his breakfast and goes out in the field and I go home and am ready to start work at 10.30am — one of the benefits of being a freelance is that the person who rings up at 10.31am does n't realise that you are wearing jodhpurs and have dirty fingernails ! |
| 26 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 27 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
| 28 | And that figure also coincides with the the estimated requirement figure that we 've come up with independently for the Greater York area , within Selby District anyway . |
| 29 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the five million we 've come up with so far ) . |
| 30 | The promise is to provide standards transparency instead of picking one ( or any of the 5m we 've come up with so far ) . |