Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
| 3 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 4 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 5 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 6 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 7 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 8 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 9 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 11 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 12 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 13 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 14 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 15 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 16 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 17 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 18 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 19 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 20 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 21 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 22 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 23 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 24 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 25 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 26 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 27 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 28 | Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work . |
| 29 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 30 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |