Example sentences of "[vb base] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Liverpool slip up again as they prepare for Portsmouth 's shooting and shouting in semi-final replay
2 Fly up now before it is too late .
3 Nip up then because she probably .
4 But badgers ' often show up better than most , and because they are endowed with stout claws on their front feet , there may be four or five distinct claw-marks showing even if the ground is too hard to reveal the rest of the print .
5 ( vi ) After centrifugation insert a rod through the hole in the base of the tube and push the plunger up gently until the chambers emerge and can be removed .
6 They glance up dully when we come in .
7 We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped .
8 However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept .
9 Violent abuse , death threats , bomb warnings and evangelical types were also far more common on the phones then , though received Switchboard wisdom says that 's because they have more trouble getting through now and tend to get discouraged and give up quicker than genuine callers .
10 And in a direct plea to the burglars Danielle Gibson , 10 , wrote : ‘ Please , if you are reading this letter give up now because you will get caught sooner or later . ’
11 Stand up straight when I 'm dribbling .
12 I 'm hoping someone will find it worth while having a proper inspection but these things pop up everywhere when the land is so dry .
13 You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach .
14 Why does not the Minister condemn the appointments of spouses of Tory Members and of Members of the House of Lords who pick up more than £5,000 a year for doing a day 's work ?
15 This SiO4 building-block can combine with almost all of the other twelve elements in the list to form silicate minerals , and these , with quartz , make up more than 99 per cent of all volcanic rocks .
16 In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’
17 Now a new report , prepared by the University of Reading 's Department of Agricultural economics and Management , reveals that those small farms make up more than 40 per cent of the UK 's farming industry , but are of ‘ negligible agricultural significance ’ , being responsible for only 2 er cent of all the UK 's agricultural production .
18 We make up more than a fifth of the European Parliamentary Labour Group in Europe , which in turn forms a quarter of the socialist group the biggest political block in the European Parliament and G M B Members cover the full range of parliamentary committees over the years we feel that a vast range of queries and questions whizzed by the G M B membership .
19 In total women make up less than 20 per cent of the labour force in large private sector firms and the majority are young and unmarried who leave before they have accumulated more than 10 years service .
20 Patients with cancer are seen sooner in most pain clinics ( median 25 days in clinics in teaching hospitals and just 10 days in clinics in district general hospitals ) , but these patients make up less than 3% of new referrals to pain clinics ( patients with cancer are usually treated outwith outpatient clinics ) .
21 What I usu , what I usually do is turn the always when I get up like when Nick and I saw the , we saw the film
22 Turn over then and go back to sleep for an hour and thought oh I 've got ta get up now the dog 's whining to go out , then we get up then when the dog starts whining to go out .
23 But then you 're absolutely skint when you get up there if you go straight
24 But wrap up well before you go through that garden because it 's enough to freeze you out there .
25 I mean they know up there because of the , of theirs .
26 work on the basis of er , we fill up just before we drop you off on the way back
27 And we never go up there unless it 's .
28 All these prices go up faster than I can shame to put up the rents … ’
29 But turn up early for I 'm sure they 'll go quickly !
30 Some lists end up longer than others , but no values interfere .
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