Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , where else would you go to meet up with the Duke and his followers ? ’ |
| 2 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 3 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 4 | One way or another they can expect to meet up with the majority of the players who will represent Canada at the ‘ 95 World Cup . |
| 5 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 6 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 7 | Consultations with the Lochboisdale management and staff over , it was off to Benbecula Airport to meet up with the Stornoway bound Loganair Twin Otter once again . |
| 8 | As the water level lowered below the Deep Level horizon , it was decided to start driving a tunnel from the shaft side , to meet up with the advancing Deep Level from the south . |
| 9 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 10 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 11 | His place will be taken by Doddie Weir ( Melrose ) who will leave Edinburgh on Sunday to meet up with the squad when they arrive in Hong Kong on Monday . |
| 12 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 13 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 14 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 15 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 16 | But in the sixties and seventies , that 's where all the kids used to jump up onto the flat roof , that was the area where they jumped up , so this could be a result of what has happened from there , I mean that 's why the |
| 17 | This young Samoyed will grow up much quicker than his companion , and must be trained not to jump up from the outset . |
| 18 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 19 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 20 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 21 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 22 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 23 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 24 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 25 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 26 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 27 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 28 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 29 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 30 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |