Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually wound up taking lessons from him . |
| 2 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 3 | The child from the fish and chip shop can only end up running Liberty 's if he has some idea of what Liberty 's is . |
| 4 | The Tiger Makes Out was a fleshed-out version of Murray Schisgal 's one-act play , The Tiger , about a sexually repressed New York mailman , played by Eli Wallach , who attempts to kidnap a ‘ sexy swinger ’ only to end up capturing Anne Jackson ( Mrs Wallach ) , a socially repressed Long Island housewife . |
| 5 | In the by-elections , I rapidly became disillusioned by the men who not only ended up taking credit for the Group 's existence but who also displayed a total lack of understanding about issues affecting Asian women in Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ If we prevent children dying in infancy they will just grow up to have children of their own and population will increase even faster . ’ |
| 7 | People assumed Jack had not turned up to hear shanties written in his honour . |
| 8 | But Benny had not grown up expecting life to be totally perfect . |
| 9 | Although she is no longer parcelling up teaching packs , Mrs Kelsall still finds her spare time eaten up by the project . |
| 10 | I just popped up to see Sergeant Joe , did n't I ? |
| 11 | They do n't generally move up to become executives . |
| 12 | To achieve a lower after-tax cash flow as early as possible , lessors normally set up leasing subsidiaries with different year ends . |
| 13 | The charge made by liberal historians , that the revolutionary ideologies and programmes were the hothouse creation of intellectuals isolated from the masses they claimed to represent does not stand up to close scrutiny . |
| 14 | The trade in the nineteenth century does not stand up to close examination . |
| 15 | Hospitals in Chicago , New York and New England are already queuing up to give Robodoc a job . |
| 16 | But but I shall never forget when he was like always spruced up to go snooker match snow white shirt ! |
| 17 | Davis is deliberately made up to resemble Debra Winger/Jane Bowles/Kit Moresby in The Sheltering Sky — a reminder that one of the guiding lights behind this literary adaptation was that film 's producer , Jeremy Thomas . |
| 18 | Babysave is suitable for babies from three months on and is endorsed by the Portia Trust , a charity which was specially set up to prevent baby-snatching as well as to advise any distraught parent whose child has tragically been snatched . |
| 19 | This will not always stand up to present day expectations about democratic management . |
| 20 | Most people who actively diet usually end up piling weight back on . |
| 21 | Female chimpanzees do not often hunt , but they nevertheless play an important role in hunting , and they usually end up gaining access to significant portions of meat . |
| 22 | Familiarly , the reforms have been presented in the bright packaging of choice and value for money ; terms which usually end up meaning cutbacks . |
| 23 | ‘ The illustrations always end up looking flat . |
| 24 | That 's why the pebbles always end up making dents . ’ |
| 25 | I always ended up making compromises . |
| 26 | She was about to kick it aside , but luckily glanced up to see Luch 's watchful eye on her . |
| 27 | When he landed the job of Beirut bureau chief for Cable News Network , I remember I said to a colleague that if Jerry was ever taken hostage , his kidnappers would probably wind up paying CNN to take him back — and I was only half wrong . |
| 28 | On the other hand , being box shifters , they may not care what software they ship anyway and some people are betting they 'll both wind up licensing Windows from Microsoft . |
| 29 | It operates in an host/target interconnect arrangement and the tools will support embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers , but can also scale up to support VME and system-level clients if required . |
| 30 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |