Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument , based apparently upon the particular circumstances of a young woman in New Zealand whose daughter was unfortunate enough to grow up in care , itself an unusual experience , is dangerous and partial stuff . |
| 2 | While Europe is in the grip of the tightest recession for 50 years , games machines like Nintendo 's Game Boy , Sega 's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx are barely being produced fast enough to keep up with demand . |
| 3 | EG Vinnie throwing a scotch egg at him and Bobby Davison getting pissed and falling asleep in the restaureant only to wake up with flu and miss loads of games ( the papers said it was a recurrance of his knee injury ) ! |
| 4 | I 've got some stamps , enough to make up to ninepence . |
| 5 | They have to be re-issued yearly to keep up with inflation . |
| 6 | Just to keep up with inflation ! |
| 7 | " Tom Rooney told me to beware of you , not to end up in bed with you . |
| 8 | The YF-22 's most useful quality is its ability not to show up on radar , including radars of a sensitivity not yet invented . |
| 9 | Germany 's Jewish Council , noting Monday 's anniversary of the Nazis ' 1938 Kristallnacht ( Night of the Shattering Glass ) pogrom , said the Right-wing resurgence obliged Germans more than ever before to stand up for democracy and tolerance . |
| 10 | Three shifts are operating flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 11 | Working flat out to keep up with demand , bales of yarn are stacked ready for the next load by Despatch Foreman , Peter McCall . |
| 12 | A company which makes silk ties for the Buckingham Palace gift shop is working flat out to keep up with demand . |
| 13 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 14 | Selkirk threw him a cloak , telling the clerk to make himself as comfortable as possible and Corbett slept fitfully , waking once or twice to go up on deck to vomit his dinner into the sea amidst the jeering catcalls of the night watch . |
| 15 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 16 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Once Stalin made me dance the Gopak , squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels , ’ writes Khrushchev , an image hard to call up in view of his shape , but — ‘ When Stalin says ‘ Dance ’ , a wise man dances , ’ added the peasant proverb-spinner in his accustomed vein . |
| 18 | Turns out that one of them , Hurricane , went on to team up with co-MC Kool-Tee and DJ Kippy-O to form A Funky Rhythmical Organisation Of Sound — better known as The Afros . |
| 19 | as oh that 's good , I feel that they 're now acid and alkalis , seem to be important , I 've done I 've put a lot of effort into them , maybe just a quick glance at those occasionally to keep up to date . |