Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [conj] " 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 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |
| 4 | We do not believe he just wandered up there and lay down to die . |
| 5 | Erm and so I wandered up there and had a look at it and photographed . |
| 6 | Soon the Malthusian spectre rose up again as populations soared . |
| 7 | To his right the hill rose up above where he stood , then fell again to meet the next turn of the river . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | We stumbled and fell many times , and yet always managed to struggle up again and continue . |
| 10 | Its windows were boarded up too and its door firmly locked . |
| 11 | The house has been boarded up more than eighty years now . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He came legging up behind and just asked me out . |
| 13 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 14 | ‘ A few years ago one of the old boys from Ham was doing a bit of rabbit poaching up here and a headless horseman went riding by as cool as you please . |
| 15 | Liverpool slip up again as they prepare for Portsmouth 's shooting and shouting in semi-final replay |
| 16 | He stands up carefully and reaches out both hands . |
| 17 | ( ROS stands up restlessly and flaps his arms . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Third place went to Denis McCullough but the hard luck story of the race belonged to Phelim Owens who had to take a slip road at Cardy Corner when lying fourth then rejoined the race in 10th place before ending up back where he had started — in fourth place . |
| 20 | It is these muscles which make it possible to stand up straight and bend over to lift objects . |
| 21 | I was told to stand up straight and , as usual , one of the guards pushed my legs as close together as possible . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I 'm gon na ask Catherine to stand up so that you can all see who she is . |
| 24 | If the Opposition spokesman , the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) , has the guts and really cares about Ravenscraig , will my hon. Friend ask him to stand up now and commit a future Labour Government to keeping Ravenscraig open ? |
| 25 | Put up with what 's going on , because the reality is , there 's nobody in Northern Ireland prepared to stand up now and give evidence in open court , because if they do they 're dead before the week is done . |
| 26 | " 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 . |
| 27 | Erm , I do n't like it er , not for particularly any religious reason but for the fact that the church is purpose-built for weddings and a lot of hotels are n't , so you get the girl with the ball gown , spent hundreds on it , and she 's squeezed up sometimes and nobody can see her ! |
| 28 | Hurry up so that he 's got a paddy on at teatime . |
| 29 | give us time to get dressed , she says oh hurry up now and we 've just come out the bath |
| 30 | 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 . |