Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 2 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 3 | This is a branch of the Association devoted to the more senior ex-Manorians who would like to meet up with old friends , but who find it difficult to join in with the annual reunions . |
| 4 | For the travellers it 's a chance to meet up with old friends and enjoy themselves . |
| 5 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 6 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 7 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 8 | The subterranean world of the behind-the-scenes television power-brokers gets to meet up at these events . |
| 9 | To sum up on private dispositions . |
| 10 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 11 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 12 | Taya also announced an amnesty ( further to those of March — see p. 38085-86 ) to benefit up to 70 political detainees . |
| 13 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 14 | He may have been pleased to get the job — but he was only shot into the spot in order to stand up for good , Christian , family values and to restore party morale in Cecil 's wake . |
| 15 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 16 | We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 18 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 19 | Theories that fail to stand up to observational and experimental tests must be eliminated and replaced by further speculative conjectures . |
| 20 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 21 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 22 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 23 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 24 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 25 | ‘ No mother can watch her child continue to be in pain — his frail body is not going to stand up to 30 general anaesthetics . |
| 26 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 27 | A lightweight racer/trainer many look sleek on the shelf , but it is n't going to stand up to heavy mileage and regular forays off-road . |
| 28 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 29 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 30 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |