Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 2 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 3 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 4 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 5 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 6 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 7 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 8 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 10 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I have n't , ’ said Sally , ‘ and Ed was also fed up by the way the deal was done . |
| 12 | It shows up in the way our best run companies now organize their work , regard their workers , design their enterprises . |
| 13 | But it seems that not everyone can keep up with the way our language is changing . |
| 14 | Eight miles , starting easily , speeding up on the way home |
| 15 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 16 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 17 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
| 18 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 19 | No , you might puke up on the way |
| 20 | The idea that Athens actually remitted all tribute that year can be dismissed — there is no other good evidence for an easing up in the way the empire was run . |
| 21 | The reason the market economy or catallaxy produces fresh wealth rather than simply redistributing existing wealth is critically bound up with the way in which market prices act as signals containing vital information . |
| 22 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 23 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 24 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 25 | Bread and got some sausages bit of erm boiled ham which you can pick up on the way through |
| 26 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 27 | So I have to ask has anyone , and I underline anyone , who talks about economic policies , recessions , recoveries and jobs , yet begun to face up to the way everything depends on growth as before and even more growth than before . |
| 28 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 29 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 30 | Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer . |