Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 2 | An infra-red light , the height of the bridge , is sent across the road and if it 's breached , a sign flashes up to warn the driver . |
| 3 | Eyes light up , the conversation becomes more intense , team spirit takes on all the zeal of an ideology , facts flow , and one ends up getting the impression of being a part of … a Great Dawn . |
| 4 | This is very difficult to do , and unless the practitioner is careful she ends up resembling the Prime Minister feigning compassion in the face of some disaster . |
| 5 | This practice would have to continue , so the government would have first to buy the data from whoever ends up operating the craft . |
| 6 | And that the one with the smaller ban ends up missing the senior inter-provincials as a result . |
| 7 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 8 | In a recent hard-core pornographic film from Denmark , the woman ends up killing the man . |
| 9 | At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance . |
| 10 | Whoever ends up fighting the election , Mr Kishen suggested , royal parentage will not matter as much to Bharatpur voters as the government 's abysmal record on rural development , inflation and corruption and its failure to fulfil promises made during the 1984 campaign . |
| 11 | The tenant ends up paying the same amount , but because he will have received a tax invoice he can claim input relief , subject to the normal rules . |
| 12 | The anger that builds up characterizes the general pattern of interaction between the parent and child with the parent being erratic and inconsistent in reaction and the child being aggressive and difficult in order to gain attention and have his or her own way . |
| 13 | It was in the original setting we realise the zany difference between myself and Chris that when Graham gets up to speak the earth moves . |
| 14 | Your dad stays up to watch the movies . |
| 15 | Dad goes off to the gin shop , gallant daughter stays up to put the old soak to bed . ’ |
| 16 | Rix shapes up to cross the ball to the far post , Lukic moves to cover , Rix instead clips ( not powefully ) along the ground round the wall . |
| 17 | The Orc army breaks up leaving the eastern half of the Empire in ruins . |
| 18 | The £100.7m rights issue it intends to use to buy and develop land as the market picks up left the shares a penny stronger at 197p . |
| 19 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |
| 20 | In Gothic cathedrals the light flows up to dominate the downward flow of masonry . |
| 21 | And the very opposite processes obtain : instead of cold rock being forced down , hot rock springs up to fill the void between the two separating plates . |
| 22 | But of course he comes up Take the bloody l ! |
| 23 | One is to settle for being a minority government , and hope to collect enough support each time a parliamentary vote comes up to win the day and stay in office . |