Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salmon swam up only those streams which had been chemically scented . |
| 2 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 3 | Not that an official proctor was necessarily called upon to take up the case ; often clients received only the less expensive advice of petition-drawers , who drew up as many as ninety per cent of all criminal plaints . |
| 4 | Before you cheer up too much , though , there is an important difference . |
| 5 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 6 | I see him ending up pretty much like Stephen , half-fulfilled and half-frustrated — a third-rater , ’ she said , candidly and regretfully , ‘ and knowing it . ’ |
| 7 | THE highly popular series of Scotsman Literary Lunches starts up again this month with an intriguing trio of authors : the actor Brian Blessed , the agony aunt Claire Rayner and the leading biographer Margaret Forster . |
| 8 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 9 | With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives . |
| 10 | Let me catch up here some points left in suspension . |
| 11 | well not directly , erm because the whole purpose of the divisionalization was to put the skill and expertise into each division , at the initial stage of erm divisionalization there were no other marketing people immediately in those other divisions , I was occasionally called on to assist but progressively as they built up there own marketing expertise then my needs were less , they needed me less . |
| 12 | The crew were picked up later that day . |
| 13 | She had n't picked up as much of a lead as she 'd thought . |
| 14 | ‘ He gets stuck in — and that 's probably why he 's picked up so many knocks down the years . |
| 15 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 16 | Okay and then if it all adds up how much should you have left over ? |
| 17 | But glue up as little as possible at this stage for ease of working ; ie. the back rather than the whole chair . |
| 18 | if complaints fly up obviously that 's out the window , but |
| 19 | Karpov , his position deteriorating fast , used up nearly all his thinking time trying to find a defence . |
| 20 | Many of the ‘ real ’ sentences that were processed took so long and used up so much of the computational processing of the SUN system that full testing was not feasible . |
| 21 | GHI knows all about the tricky business of matching wine to food — sometimes at tastings we line up as many as 12 wines alongside three courses , and the results can be surprising . |
| 22 | I mean Simon Greyson is not not picking up here neither is Colin Hill and really it 's come on a little bit sudden but that was totally unnecessary as well . |
| 23 | When taxi driver Sabir Khan pulled up at Aylesbury railway station he thought he was picking up just another ordinary passenger . |
| 24 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |
| 25 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 26 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 27 | Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it . |
| 28 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 29 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 30 | It uses up as much memory as any maximum column on the right that uses memory . |