Example sentences of "[adj] up [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More and more of us are too hard up even to afford a few quid drowning our sorrows in the pub . |
| 2 | Before God , I 'd give them all up just to see her again , just to touch her ! |
| 3 | Do you think I was making it all up just to console the Hobdens ? ’ |
| 4 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 5 | First of all , the more water-furrows in a field the more land is wasted ; secondly a field that is ploughed in narrow stetches that are ridged up slightly to assist the drainage is not the best seed-bed for a crop of corn , as the ridges are bound , to some degree , to cause an unequal ripening of the seed . |
| 6 | " She had a friend of mine beaten up just to find out where I was , " he said softly . |