Example sentences of "[verb] up [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEARING up to sell Intersleek coatings can be a slippery business . |
| 2 | Following the signing of the gas sales contract , the first contracts for detailed plant design and for procurement services have been agreed and LASMO 's Karachi office is now gearing up to get Kadanwari gas on stream at the beginning of 1995 . |
| 3 | But Turin 's more illustrious club , Juventus , showed they were gearing up to topple Milan with an equally impressive 5–1 drubbing of Udinese . |
| 4 | Soon lobbing along behind the leaders , Llewellyn was always finding plenty of room for Party Politics and by the second Canal Turn , when Romany King moved up to join Hotplate , the race had begun to take it 's final shape . |
| 5 | In spite of City concern about the level of company debt built up to acquire Britoil and North American assets , BP has been a major capital spender in Scotland as part of its positioning to improve its long-term competitive position . |
| 6 | Another fortnight 's quiet made us coax my parents to come up to see Barrie 's ‘ What every woman knows ’ with Barbara Mullen . |
| 7 | It operates in an host/target interconnect arrangement and the tools will support embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers , but can also scale up to support VME and system-level clients if required . |
| 8 | It could be that Navigation Mixte is teaming up to buy Paribas or that friendly defenders of Paribas such as Axa-Midi are strengthening their holdings . |
| 9 | ‘ I came up to visit Johanna in Syon and made enquiries . |
| 10 | and I got back home , and somebody must have told him where we lived , he got my address from somewhere and he came up to see Irene and I . |
| 11 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 12 | Iain Macleod had tears in his eyes when he came up to congratulate Mollie . |
| 13 | Davis is deliberately made up to resemble Debra Winger/Jane Bowles/Kit Moresby in The Sheltering Sky — a reminder that one of the guiding lights behind this literary adaptation was that film 's producer , Jeremy Thomas . |
| 14 | Sounds just the sort of thing Nicola would have made up to impress Blufton . ’ |
| 15 | A large cast of characters was lining up to challenge Mr O'Neill before he announced his decision ( and others may now join the battle ) . |
| 16 | It will not be just a matter of turning up to beat Grimsby and Wolves . |
| 17 | A rescue plan 's been drawn up to save England 's hedgerows , The government is offering farmers grants totalling three and a half million pounds to restore damaged hedges and plant new ones . |
| 18 | It was wretched luck that the weather that day was so awful that only 1000+ turned up to see Simpson well played by Bernard Joy and Palace win by 3–2 . |
| 19 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 20 | He was now largely permitted to roam the grounds in freedom , and he came gambolling up to greet Theda with a bark , and then went off exploring again , just keeping the ladies in sight , and returning now and again for a pat or an encouraging word . |
| 21 | UNIR SIGNS UP TO BRING AT&T 's CALICO OBJECT-ORIENTED ‘ SUCCESSOR TO UNIX ’ SYSTEM TO MARKET |
| 22 | This afternoon , in his home town of Vicenza , the 22-year-old Baggio will win his sixth Italy cap when he lines up to face Algeria in a game which Italy 's manager , Azeglio Vicini , hopes to use as valuable preparation for next Wednesday 's Wembley confrontation with England . |
| 23 | And the team that beat Northampton lines up to face Orrell tomorrow , which means Laurie Beck keeps his place at scrum half even though Hannaford is fit . |
| 24 | He passed it over the table , and courteously got up to give Catherine a second copy . |
| 25 | Rajmapata found the best surface up the far rail in the Carrie Red Fillies Nursery , Flight Lieutenant got up to beat Roberty Lea in the Harcros Timber & Building Supplies Stayers Final , and Tickerty 's Gift collected the Cowies PLC Limited Stakes . |
| 26 | It is not pleasant to read the account of the plot got up to entice Forster 's boyfriend Bob Buckingham away from his wife , and not difficult to agree with PC Daley 's description of the Forster circle as ‘ pimps ’ . |
| 27 | Norton 's Coin gets up to pass Toby Tobias ( right ) as Desert Orchid ( left ) plugs on to be third . |
| 28 | At the official press conference , one journalist gets up to compliment Roth on his performance alongside Gary Oldman in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead . |
| 29 | Ford was tooled up to produce Sierra in meganumbers , but the car 's then-unusual shape put off many potential customers . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure you 're right , ’ she laughed , then glanced up to see Rob approaching with a tall , elegant blonde woman . |