Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But first I must catch up with Posh Porky as I do n't ‘ ave much capital left of my own . ’ |
| 2 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 3 | With their new signing on show and wins at Stockport and West Brom behind them , Pool will line up in buoyant mood against their relegation-threatened local rivals tomorrow . |
| 4 | Why did cells gang up in many-celled bodies ? |
| 5 | ‘ If the mother thinks her calf is dead , she 'll dry up for good . |
| 6 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 7 | He will team up with American comic Dana Carvey , who played Garth in the smash-hit movie Wayne 's World . |
| 8 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 9 | Lynda Moss , editor of the RSC 's journal Methods in Organic Synthesis , said that it does not often crop up in published syntheses , though it is sometimes used as a source of in reactions as well as being a solvent . |
| 10 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 11 | ‘ I already wear a lot of Joe Bloggs ’ stuff because I do n't dress up for special occasions . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman , if decent people find it necessary er to kill animals they believe be vermin they do n't dress up in red coats and call them pink and er charge er , er , er , about er drinking st stirrup cups and tooting horns , er they go out and kill the vermin , it 's a necessary job that has to be done and of course , er there are many ways in which foxes could be killed without cruelty if it is necessary to kill them . |
| 13 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 14 | Trevor has often wondered whether this made him grow up with silly fussy habits which irritated the girls with whom he would like to have been involved . |
| 15 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 16 | The Queen 's Press Secretary called a meeting of Fleet Street editors and implored them to let Richard grow up in reasonable privacy . |
| 17 | is n't there a risk that if we do n't keep a reasonable balance between employment and employment demand and employment supply in North Yorkshire , we shall finish up for different reasons with a need to regenerate the economy of Yorkshire , North Yorkshire ? |
| 18 | we 'll finish up with right angles first . |
| 19 | • Do n't give up on artificial respiration if the child does n't respond quickly . |
| 20 | Britain may stock up on strategic metals |
| 21 | ‘ Why I wo n't speak up for fat people ’ by She-Devil star Julie T Wallace |
| 22 | WHY I WO N'T SPEAK UP FOR FAT PEOPLE ! |
| 23 | If the patient 's well-being is enhanced or if a problem such as asthma is cured , but joint pains flare up or a skin rash develops , the physician can reassure the patient that things are moving in the right direction and that the joint or skin problem should be transient and will also clear up in due course . |
| 24 | Jumble up the shades cottage-garden style or choose a cool colour such as cream that will show up on dark wintry days . |
| 25 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 26 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 27 | While we have separate currencies a poor economic performance will show up as a balance of payments deficit — but with a single currency that warning signal would disappear , and a poor performance would show up by whole regions or countries becoming depressed and blighted areas afflicted with mass unemployment . |
| 28 | The merchants realised how well pink coral would show up against dark pigmentation . |
| 29 | Could you just ring up to old Si and let him know I 've arrived ? ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately many clinicians use this approach in an incorrect manner and do not follow up at regular intervals . |