Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 2 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 3 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 4 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she cried , beginning to gesticulate as she did when excited and then to square up like a boxer . |
| 6 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 7 | There was a different rug on the floor but without the fire on it 's much warmer to curl up on a human . |
| 8 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 9 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 10 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 11 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 12 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 13 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 14 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 15 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 16 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 17 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 18 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 19 | By the late seventeenth century , with its economic base vulnerable and its spiritual authority flouted , the Church was ill equipped to stand up to an increasingly dynamic State . |
| 20 | Train passengers used to stand up as a mark of respect when they passed Mother Volga , but not any more . |
| 21 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 22 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 23 | You can be too geriatric to stand up in a boat … and you might quiver a bit . |
| 24 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 25 | The pilot , who was later court martialled , was unable to pull up from a dive and ploughed into the ground . |
| 26 | He 'd come on strong towards the end of his round to pull up within a shot of us . |
| 27 | He says that they were taught how to creep up on an enemy — quite interesting . |
| 28 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 29 | Aunt Louise seemed to swell up like a bullfrog , her eyes about to pop out of her head . |
| 30 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |