Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or recognising that up there the air might be too rarefied and you do n't want to go up at all . |
| 2 | Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him . |
| 3 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 4 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 5 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 6 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 7 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 8 | If , also like me , you have a weakness for stockpiling past copies of nursing journals because you intend to catch up on such and such an article , then it is worth investing in some proper journal binders . |
| 9 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 10 | Yes and er my mother was frightened to death of guns because , oh he was a bit of a boy at heart I mean you can just imagine everybody used to bring the sporting guns to be repaired and there was guns floating about all over the place , and my mother was scared stiff of guns right till the time she died er , and he got mixed up with all these sporting connections you know like go off to shoots and various things and I think he did a bit of cock fighting in his day as well , but I 've , I 've got the exercise books that his two brothers . |
| 11 | I can understand how my friends got mixed up in all that . |
| 12 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 14 | He tells her , too , about the toy drawer in which the pencil-case was originally lost , and the characteristic choking dusty smell it would develop as the toys in it became mixed up with each other to form a kind of solid pudding , which had to be taken out at the end of each school holidays , and separated once again into its components . |
| 15 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 16 | The Leeds Permanent and Abbey National want to go up by 1.25 points or more . |
| 17 | That figure needs to go up by twenty-six thousand to read nought point two three one million , and what 's left needs to go down by twenty-six thousand at ten one one four o million . |
| 18 | All vehicles carry videotapes and illustrative material and are designed to accommodate up to sixteen girls working in pairs at eight work stations . |
| 19 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 20 | The multi-processor machine , dubbed Corporate Computing Server , is expected to support up to 3,000 users , and represents a performance boost of up to 7% on HP 's top of the line 9000 Series 800 servers . |
| 21 | WHATEVER their politics , Poles expect to wait up to 20 years for a new telephone . |
| 22 | Teesside TEC has joined up with Northern Marketing Initiative for an open day at Training and Enterprise House , Queen 's Square , Middlesbrough , on February 28 between 10.30am and 5.30pm . |
| 23 | No , she wants to go up to that playgroup ! |
| 24 | It is as if the loch has filled up with many different monsters , each in turn requiring consideration of its claims to be Nessie . |
| 25 | This day boat is specially designed to carry up to eleven passengers , six of whom could be in wheelchairs . |
| 26 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 27 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 28 | When representatives of the offending authorities are called to account by the Committee , they will need to come up with some better answers to justify their past actions than that members of CPRW are just a fractious minority . |
| 29 | Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’ |
| 30 | Exploration in Middle Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks north of Wadebridge in north Cornwall has located up to 1 g/t Au associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins ( MRP 103 ) . |