Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 2 | The sad thing is such behaviour will only end up getting the poor stalker or ghillie the sack so it 's not worth the trouble . |
| 3 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 4 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 5 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 6 | Accordingly the court decided that VAT was payable on these charges and could not be reclaimed from Customs and Excise if the customer did not show up to claim the room . |
| 7 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 8 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 9 | I soon cheered up watching the glorious butterflies going about their business in the hot climate and then cooling down amongst the fountains . |
| 10 | Because working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system and are not brought up to accept the values of this system , they are likely to reject the school values and form a delinquent subculture ( Cohen 's definition of this subculture is reproduced as Reading 2 in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 11 | Doctors are all very well , but mountain climbing doctors are all bonkers in my experience , mutant crosses between James Robertson Justice , Rab C Nesbitt and Evel Knievel , eternally setting up drips the better and faster to imbibe Old Scrotum 's Real Brain Shrinking Liver Ale . |
| 12 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 13 | They climb over in groups of 100 , then quickly split up to evade the border guards . |
| 14 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |
| 15 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 16 | ‘ I always end up wearing the same old make-up , but just a little bit less of it , ’ admitted one frustrated friend . |
| 17 | Much of the housing rapidly thrown up to accommodate the workers was overcrowded and insanitary ( see Ferguson 1964 ) . |
| 18 | If you 're always queuing up to use the washbasin , and have the space , why not think about installing more than one in the bathroom . |
| 19 | Ian , who comes from Darlington , intended to take things steady with his Honda CBR 600 but he still ended up challenging the leaders . |
| 20 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 21 | And I do n't think it 's good for the game to see defenders and keepers under so much pressure that they repeatedly end up booting the ball into the stand . ’ |
| 22 | For one thing your own troops will probably end up blocking the line of sight . |
| 23 | You probably end up writing the system file quicker , and have a much simpler system which also maintain in far less time . |
| 24 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You see , the structure of authority is often set up to consolidate the position of the leader . |
| 27 | Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide . |
| 28 | The commission , originally set up to investigate the violent suppression of the demonstration on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which triggered the revolution [ for its report see p. 37737 ] , had examined files on elected deputies in both the federal and the two republican parliaments . |
| 29 | His reaction had bewildered her , but she did n't want to dwell on it , because she knew that she would inevitably end up spending the entire evening thinking of him , and then feeling frustrated and angry with herself for having given in to her private weakness . |
| 30 | Once the pins are correctly lined up press the device firmly into its ' socket . |