Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 2 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 3 | Soon the Malthusian spectre rose up again as populations soared . |
| 4 | To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river . |
| 5 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 6 | The house has been boarded up more than eighty years now . ’ |
| 7 | Liverpool slip up again as they prepare for Portsmouth 's shooting and shouting in semi-final replay |
| 8 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 9 | At that point I just want to stand up again because I think I 've put very little into this altogether because I was n't here . |
| 10 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 11 | But you 've got to remember that it 's now that the whole question of Walter Machin has come up again because of the new interest in him , and the republishing of the books and so on . |
| 12 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 13 | This means that in rough air it is only safe to pull up hard if the speed is below the maximum launch speed . |
| 14 | Hydraulic pressure built up slowly until the door wheezed open . |
| 15 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 16 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 17 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 18 | It 's important that some eye problems , like a squint , are picked up early before they become entrenched and hinder your baby 's development . |
| 19 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 20 | The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed . |
| 21 | I hope you realised they said a few a words on there that 's just been picked up like while I was |
| 22 | ‘ All right , but do n't you try to come up here if the weather 's too bad . ’ |
| 23 | Ah he used to come up here when he was a wee boy with his granny . |
| 24 | Staff were mopping up today as Mr Alton held his usual surgery . |
| 25 | They 're really curled up more than like a normal baby are n't they , they 're all sort of , you know , foetal position . |
| 26 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 27 | Fly up now before it is too late . |
| 28 | Nip up then because she probably . |
| 29 | Patrick was climbing up there when he heard his name called . |
| 30 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |