Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tadpoles normally feed on plankton and decaying plant material suspended in the water and shoals may effectively stir up the debris at the bottom of the pond , thus adding to the food supply . |
| 2 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 3 | People must be able to get the representation they trust and not that prescribed by the Government , whose in administration you may eventually end up challenging . |
| 4 | Meanwhile for Francesca , like her mother , it 's a case of living from day to day , in the hope medical science may eventually come up with an answer . |
| 5 | It may eventually put up prices . |
| 6 | However , organising a collective voice may perversely end up by only transferring the microphone to the voice of the elite . |
| 7 | If I close this week with only seven , I may only end up with one sale , and that 's not gon na to give me the income I want and big H wants so I can take her out for a Chinese . |
| 8 | Eg White is down at Man City , Rocky at leeds ) You may only spend up to 20 Million quid . |
| 9 | There may be only a few , or they may twinkle in their hundreds like some strange city skyline and , most disconcerting of all , a double set of lights may suddenly float up and down like a luminescent yo-yo . |
| 10 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 11 | Beyond that , tight local monitoring should eventually throw up patterns where inappropriate services are being disproportionately delivered . |
| 12 | The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran . |
| 13 | Though to me , Mrs. Proudie seems to be the strongest of the trinity that makes up the Bishop of Barchester — Dr. Proudie , Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope — Dr. Grantly at first dismisses her saying that ‘ when a woman is impertinent , one must only put up with it , and keep out of her way in future ’ . |
| 14 | There we are we all have different ones but we should all finish up with the same answer . |
| 15 | I think we 've put I know we 've put erm eight per cent on on everything that 's now outstanding so it should all go up eight per cent . |
| 16 | Moreover , Noorda must finally set up a line of succession and give us some indication of how Novell ( and Unix ) will function when he bows out . |
| 17 | One must not open up the possibility for either partner in a marriage or a relationship to murder their partner , not as a result of a sudden , temporary loss of control , but as a result of a careful , well thought out and premeditated plan . |
| 18 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 19 | Anyone wishing to join the Liss club and perhaps start training now for next year 's race should just turn up for training on Wednesday evenings ( 7 p.m. ) and Sunday mornings ( 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 20 | His suggestion that United Motors should progressively wind up its European , South American and Asian regional headquarters and plan , direct and control world operations from its home base in Detroit , had been well-received by most of the top brass who liked the big bold approach of running the world the way it used to be … from Detroit . |
| 21 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 22 | I must just jump up and down on Mrs when I see her at lunch time . |
| 23 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This sort of thing just should not end up in court . |
| 25 | It 's our Party and we should not give up without a fight . |
| 26 | It is always worth watching Eta Carinæ ; its true nature is uncertain , but there is no reason why it should not flare up again at any time . |
| 27 | As a sudden mutation there is no reason whatever why it should not crop up anywhere , and the small island between Ireland and England is as likely a place for it as anywhere else . |
| 28 | After dinner they agreed that Rodney should not wash up . |
| 29 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 30 | ‘ We have to recognise the strong feelings among black and white people that the party should not set up an organisation which is racially exclusive , and could be seen as a form of apartheid . ’ |