Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now your second question must be where do I get my information from , how do I keep up to date ? |
| 2 | Should I fill up with petrol just in case ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | did somebody go up to Miss and say |
| 5 | Often in American movies , the sentimentality , the insistence on ‘ dotting the eyes ’ and manipulating the emotions , makes me puff up with venom like a cobra . |
| 6 | As I chew and chew without swallowing , the Monster 's slobbering and sucky-grunting falls silent making me look up in alarm . |
| 7 | ‘ What interests and hobbies would you give up for advancement at work ? ’ |
| 8 | And oddly enough one of my friends asked me only yesterday when he said what 's on your programme for next week , he said how on earth do you keep up to date ? |
| 9 | Well why could n't you put up with margarine for one day ? |
| 10 | She knew that neither Jasper nor Bert would be up early , but made herself get up in time to join Jim for tea and cornflakes . |
| 11 | On the contrary , it made him blaze up into action . |
| 12 | Will they stand up to family wear and tear or look too sturdy for dinner parties ? |
| 13 | In relation to the instances of prosecutable deviance which come to light , few pollutions even result in the initiation of the formal process by the taking of a statutory sample ; rarely do they end up in court with conviction , sanction , and the attendant publicity in the local newspaper ( see ch. 9 , s.i ) . |
| 14 | Why should they put up with behaviour from you , that you yourself would find hurtful ? |
| 15 | Twice he had let her come up for air , so that it would take longer , but the third time he had held her under until she was finished . |
| 16 | how hard is the evidence , will it stand up to scrutiny ? |