Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | It makes you wonder what reserves this young man has reached into , to come up with this . |
| 4 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 5 | Yes , it 's Christmas time and once again ACCOUNTANCYis looking for the wits among you to come up with this year 's Christmas cartoon caption . |
| 6 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 7 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 8 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 9 | She was trying hard to catch up with this new revelation , and it obviously was n't easy ; her expression more or less steady , it was mainly her eyes that betrayed the complex reprocessing of ideas that was taking place within . |
| 10 | Now this means that this part of the globe the bit nearest to the moon will have more than it 's fair share of gravity because it 's got the gravity of the earth and it 's got the gravity of the moon pulling all the sea which will cause the erm sea to bulge up in this region . |
| 11 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 12 | A 33-1 chance is unlikely to crop up in this week 's top event , the Queen Elizabeth 11 Stakes at Ascot on Saturday , which sees the re-match between Selkirk and Marling . |
| 13 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 14 | The more advanced desktop publishing packages have begun to pick up on this requirement but few can manage either the length or the revision information that the typical TechDoc user needs . |
| 15 | Chairman I would like to pick up on this point about the identification of sites . |
| 16 | Fares were harder to pick up in this area than in Covent Garden or Oxford Street , and more likely to prove unruly . |
| 17 | Their bedroom doors used to open up onto this balcony . |
| 18 | But it 's wonderful for the children to be able to grow up in this beautiful place . ’ |
| 19 | On our first night in France , exhausted after a ferry crossing , we just happened to fetch up in this little village on the Loire , in a hotel on the second floor of a hotel where , indeed , we opened the shutters — and we were looking at the west end of the Romanesque Abbey of St Benoit sur Loire , which is a most striking church where the remains of the saint are interred in a little casket in the crypt . |
| 20 | ‘ Ever since I resigned , I 've had to put up with this incessant , ‘ You 've got to be realistic , ’ from you . |
| 21 | He was n't going to put up with this complete lack of concern a moment longer . |
| 22 | Why should decent people have to put up with this crap ? |
| 23 | Suppose Mrs Bloggs is ill-treated by Mr Bloggs but decides to put up with this situation because of the children . |
| 24 | ‘ I bet Cannon & Ball do n't have to put up with this . |
| 25 | A security official said : ‘ We did not believe we would have to put up with this type of behaviour . |
| 26 | The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career . |
| 27 | The proles were being forced to put up with this stuff because there was no alternative . |
| 28 | English winemakers are always having to put up with this kind of jibe , despite possessing a viticultural heritage which dates back to the Romans . |
| 29 | We can not have a fair society , we can not have equality , West Belfast can not be working when the women of West Belfast are treated in that way — and when the women do stand up and fight and say ‘ we are not going to put up with this any more ’ , what happens is they then become threatened by the privatisation of their jobs . |
| 30 | How much longer am I supposed to put up with this ? " |