Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity . |
| 2 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 3 | Counterfeit car parts uncovered included fake brake pads which got mixed up with genuine ones , Mr Northcott said . |
| 4 | It includes the latest Purple Airways information , to make sure you do n't get mixed up with Royal flights . |
| 5 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 6 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 7 | This is a branch of the Association devoted to the more senior ex-Manorians who would like to meet up with old friends , but who find it difficult to join in with the annual reunions . |
| 8 | For the travellers it 's a chance to meet up with old friends and enjoy themselves . |
| 9 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 10 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 11 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 12 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 13 | To sum up on private dispositions . |
| 14 | He hated the sun and used to curl up in shadowy places . |
| 15 | Under the conditions of city life he believed it ‘ incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults , without virility or stamina , a weak-kneed , narrow-chested , listless breed ’ . |
| 16 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 17 | Black sportsmen are drawn from the ranks of black working-class youth and these generally grow up under similar conditions , being subjected to the same kind of pressures or lack of them . |
| 18 | In some cases long-term relationships grow up between casual workers and particular organizations In a few cases , Particularly In the banqueting establishments of a few large London hotels , where there is at least one " event " on most days of the week and most weeks of the year , there are some casuals who work effectively full-time for the organization concerned . |
| 19 | Now , however I realise that they all grow up in different stages and learn to do different things at different times . |
| 20 | Children who are HIV antibody positive can remain completely well and grow up like other children . |
| 21 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 22 | The book highlights the problem university staff have in keeping up with recent developments . |
| 23 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 24 | That she had n't been sleeping properly , finding herself tossing and turning , ending up with twisted sheets and pulverised pillows ? |
| 25 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 26 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 27 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 28 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 29 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 30 | Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . |