Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told they know how to honour their dead in the Highland regiments but the next time I go to Edinburgh I will gaze up at Dad Tam , and see both of my sons in that solid likeness ( despite the Kitchener moustache ) . |
| 2 | And you can freshen up after dinner with the amenities of a comfort pack . |
| 3 | When the law finally did catch up with Capone in 1931 , it was for tax evasion , and he was sentenced to 11 years in prison . |
| 4 | He went on to reject the premise for such an ‘ iron law ’ , since he argued that production would catch up with demand as industry developed , and any disproportions arising would derive from faulty planning . |
| 5 | He is rarely out at night and is largely free to organize his activities so that in bad weather , for example , he can catch up on paperwork in the dry and warmth of the office . |
| 6 | Freestanding machines are designed to slip under the worksurface and will line up with kitchen units at plinth and drawer level . |
| 7 | The Hollywood heartthrob , who directed and starred in the Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves , will team up with Prince Of Thieves director Kevin Reynolds to make Waterworld , in which survivors have to live in undersea domes . |
| 8 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |
| 9 | Perhaps she could team up with DO'L in central defence . |
| 10 | The band will team up with producer Michael Brook when they start work on their new album in the New Year . |
| 11 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 12 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 13 | Other sorts of dates do , however , crop up from time to time , namely the regnal year of a particular ruler , such as one of the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt . |
| 14 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 15 | It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum . |
| 16 | They do n't always dress up of course but I soon got in the habit by trying on a Tommy Cooper-styled fez . |
| 17 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 18 | As in the earlier case of David II , sent as a child to France in 1334 in exactly the same circumstances , when the English were menacing southern Scotland , the presumption was that she could grow up in safety , until she could return as an adult to rule her kingdom . |
| 19 | Who would finish up as victor ludorum ? ’ |
| 20 | It lay between them , a scrap of paper that had travelled halfway round the world , and could finish up as evidence in a murder trial . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 22 | The rain had succeeded in filtering through her thin jacket to the blouse beneath , and in her present damp state she 'd probably finish up with pneumonia or some such ailment . |
| 23 | you 'll just finish up with rubbish if you do n't . |
| 24 | We knew they would finish up in rabbit pie . |
| 25 | The scheme was not greatly used and was complemented by a Voluntary Advice Scheme under which solicitors would give up to half-hour 's advice for a fiat fee of £1 paid by the client irrespective of means . |
| 26 | ‘ What interests and hobbies would you give up for advancement at work ? ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 28 | The Chancellor would ease up on credit controls , ease taxation and ( in his autumn statement ) loosen the Government 's grip on public spending . |
| 29 | But , as curiosity overcame her , ‘ Er — what is it ? ’ she had to ask , and saw his eyes light up with laughter . |
| 30 | She would acknowledge their greeting then the language would " flow from her " and their eyes would light up in response . |