Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ? |
| 3 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 4 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 5 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 7 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 8 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 9 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 10 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 11 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 12 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 13 | Four main conclusions were drawn : first , war was a senseless act , which could never be a rational tool of state policy ; secondly , the 1914–18 war had been the result of leaders becoming caught up in a set of processes that no one could control ; thirdly , the causes of the war lay in misunderstandings between leaders and in the lack of democratic accountability within the states involved ; and fourthly , the underlying tensions which had provided the rationale for the conflict could be removed by the spread of statehood and democracy . |
| 14 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 15 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 16 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 17 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 18 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 19 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 20 | But Stephen Fazekas de St Groth of the Basel Institute of Immunology has come up with a different method — an automated system in which a technician collects the antibodies off an ‘ anti-immunologlobulin ’ column . |
| 21 | In West Germany , meanwhile , BASF has come up with a technical solution to the threat of a tax on blank audio tape . |
| 22 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 23 | ROBERT FRANKLIN of Los Gatos , California , has come up with a neat way of ensuring that electric gadgets such as irons and hair curlers turn themselves off when left unattended . |
| 24 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 25 | A MONTREAL donor has come up with a smoking cud that he claims is better than 85 per cent effective . |
| 26 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 27 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 28 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 29 | No detergent is wasted either because Siemens has come up with a specially designed Ecovalve . |
| 30 | Spear & Jackson has come up with a new range of screwdrivers , colour-coded for easier identification . |