Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 2 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 3 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 4 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 5 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not want to have poorer people paying slightly extra to subsidise those wealthier individuals who can afford to pay up on time , ’ said council leader Michael Carr . |
| 7 | Gooch declared on 304 for six , 17 runs behind Lancashire 's first innings total just before tea in an attempt to make up for time lost because of Friday 's wash-out . |