Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the darker side of her nature rose up cynically to rebut her hopes . |
| 2 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 3 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 4 | His eyes narrowed dangerously , but she ploughed on regardless , too wound up now to pay any attention to the threat . |
| 5 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 6 | FACING PAGE Many dogs will instinctively jump up either to seize a toy or as a greeting . |
| 7 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 8 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 9 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 10 | I 'm grown up enough to look after Satan . |
| 11 | But me and Nige are saving up hard to get some extra money or put another twenty thousand down . |
| 12 | Repetitions and variations can be easily built up easily to create an atmosphere like this . |
| 13 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 14 | Sometimes it can take up to eight miles before it is warmed up enough to stop having to keep a foot on the accelerator at traffic lights , etc . |
| 15 | I 've had bloody platforms put up there to make it a lot easier for people to get up there . |
| 16 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 17 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 18 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 19 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 20 | These are available in various dosages , but may have to be made up specially to deliver the required dose . |
| 21 | When they saw I was no longer struggling , they quickly built a platform next to my head , and an official climbed up there to speak to me . |
| 22 | Local groups complain that the guidelines are bring drawn up expressly to meet the requirements of the port — the first of its type in Britain — and the Dash 7 aircraft that will fly to it From Britain 's regional airports and , later , abroad . |
| 23 | They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange . |
| 24 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 25 | But she turned up late to start off with . |
| 26 | And , on the day itself , we turned up early to sort out the club . |
| 27 | However , with a fairly small number of airframe changes and a reworked canopy area the Texan would clean up quickly to become the Zeke for the film . |
| 28 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 29 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 30 | Just as just all that oxygen is used up just to burn it , erm But if you do n't give it enough air what will happen ? |