Example sentences of "[verb] up [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1848 Prussian peasants rose up to put an end to serfdom and to pledges of service to their landlords . |
| 2 | The Tajik regime did not last for long : it was opposed by Pathans , and the latter rose up to install a regime that lasted , with some changes at the top , till the communist seizure of power in 1978 . |
| 3 | Limousines drew up to disgorge a wedding party ; women in elegant outfits topped with splendid hats were a fanfare for a bride who stepped out of an old white Daimler , tanned beneath her white silk . |
| 4 | It 's not unlike language , if you grow up speaking a language , it 's easy |
| 5 | The point , however , is that to build a house that stands up requires a knowledge of where every bit goes and what it does — and that knowledge is an order of magnitude and greater than one would have been able to guess at . |
| 6 | One absent-minded hand moved up to scratch a breast . |
| 7 | Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post . |
| 8 | Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post . |
| 9 | The grey tracksuited Apostle , who had come up to make a routine check of the sleeping quarters , doubled over with a grunt of agony . |
| 10 | The man was picked up following a tip-off from a member of the public . |
| 11 | Build up to form a frame for the russet chrysanthemums |
| 12 | If we consider sources of stress as ‘ stressors ’ which build up to form a number of pressures , then it becomes possible to identify where stress is coming from and what it can ultimately lead us to . |
| 13 | Suppose that rectangular Cartesian coordinates are drawn to cover a rectangular sheet of paper and it is then rolled up to form a cylinder . |
| 14 | Miss Phillips 's performance is really a series of inappropriate costumes by Pierre Balmain and the actress wafts around in a lilac voile morning trouser suit , a black cocktail number , dresses up to resemble a wasp and dresses down in a riot of patchwork heliotrope , orange , purple , blue and green . |
| 15 | When John hung a cupboard on small metal brackets , she insisted on climbing up to paint a trompe l'oeil over the brackets as camouflage . |
| 16 | But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works . |
| 17 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 18 | This sends such orders electronically and simultaneously to many market makers , and so speeds up taking a position in the shares of many different companies . |
| 19 | At the beginning of our second week in Corfu , I woke up to find a lump beneath my left arm the size of a pigeon 's egg and two smaller ones running into my breast . |
| 20 | Well , there were the usual inhabitants , of course , but nobody with the collar turned up reading a newspaper under a streetlamp , say . |
| 21 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 22 | It 's mostly chipboard based , but I did buy an old 60s wardrobe quite cheaply which I cut up to make a computer work station . |
| 23 | Horse boxes and cars were already driving off as Trace Coley , looking sexy in her father 's Panama , sauntered up to receive a body brush and a blue rosette as one of the runners-up in the Jack Gannon . |
| 24 | Paula was already studying the map , looking up to check a sign . |
| 25 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 26 | ‘ The whole musical inferno has risen up to stop a child 's brilliance being seen ’ , he wrote . |
| 27 | Philip came up to keep an eye on him for a week or so . |
| 28 | IBM , the world 's biggest computer firm , is lining up to grab a slice of a new growth market — processing images from satellites . |
| 29 | She 'll always look up Got a Pritt stick ? |
| 30 | But he 'd have to drop the lemon tea lark when he went back to the Battalion ; it would be like turning up wearing a frock . |