Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 6 a.m. the mortar team started to drum up for breakfast . |
| 2 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 3 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 4 | Accordingly , nothing in his framework was designed to stand up for liberty where the legislature saw fit to intervene with new restrictive laws , or where the courts contrived to discover or develop them ; Dicey simply assumed that this would not occur . |
| 5 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 6 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 7 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 8 | Love wo n't change the history of the world ( that nonsense about Cleopatra 's nose is strictly for sentimentalists ) , but it will do something much more important : teach us to stand up to history , to ignore its chin-out strut . |
| 9 | This aspect of the writing of reports has been exaggerated to impress on you that every report , even the least important , must be able to stand up to expert cross-examination . |
| 10 | The whole system had been constructed to stand up to earthquake pressures . |
| 11 | Thank goodness for people prepared to stand up to authority and tackle the system they believe is wrong . ’ |
| 12 | With output recovering , the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka decided to stand up to Solidarity 's threat to call a general strike . |
| 13 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 14 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 15 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 16 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 17 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 18 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 19 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 20 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 21 | Fans in the seats are asked to stand up in solidarity . |
| 22 | Another common trait is for the model to pitch up as speed increases , making it difficult , if not impossible , to maintain a shallow dive as an entry to an aerobatic manoeuvre . |
| 23 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 24 | As the Colonel began to swell up with rage , Pooley caught Milton 's eye and shot him a warning glance . |
| 25 | The living room has to house some or all of these things and if it 's used for eating has to come up with storage for china , glass and cutlery too . |
| 26 | British officials understand China 's concern at Mr Patten 's plans — but he has to come up with arrangement for elections in 1995 and although the colony 's business community is cool towards them there are growing demands for democracy . |
| 27 | WOLVES paid a high price for their failure to come up with cash for David Kelly last season . |
| 28 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 29 | This kind of view is reasonably common in managerial literature , which attempts to come up with training and motivational techniques for dealing with conflicts which arise in what are seen as potentially ‘ conflict-free , organisations . |
| 30 | Lack of time has been cited as a possible reason why a new set of criteria put before the world governing body 's council in Tokyo last year failed to come up for discussion . |