Example sentences of "[verb] up [to-vb] [art] [noun] " 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 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 5 | A new wave of black British talent is now threatening to do the same — breaking out of a burgeoning club circuit and gearing up to colonise the nation 's TV sets |
| 6 | Erm if a window 's been smashed , then we 'll we 'll get the window boarded up to secure the flat the best possible way . |
| 7 | And then , from down below , an enraged roaring swelled up to fill the staircase . |
| 8 | I have said before — and I say again — that unless the organisations and individuals concerned are prepared to stand up to resist the aggression of developers , we will lose many , many more aerodromes . |
| 9 | One absent-minded hand moved up to scratch a breast . |
| 10 | Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post . |
| 11 | Only once did Norwich break their stranglehold , midway through the first-half , when John Polston moved up to rattle a post . |
| 12 | Tell-tale themes — which emerge in repeated use of phrases such as , in the case of a motivated talent for management , ‘ I took care of … organised … got people together ’ — can be added up to reveal the interviewee 's motivational pattern . |
| 13 | The grey tracksuited Apostle , who had come up to make a routine check of the sleeping quarters , doubled over with a grunt of agony . |
| 14 | For a wider panel , as shown in Fig. 3 , weave , lifting strands before weaving each pair of rows , but omitting the weaving yarn on the last row when the strands are picked up to complete the diamond . |
| 15 | Throughout , the old lady sits silent , hands on lap , eyes on agitated thumbs and as she looks up to witness the man 's retreat her tear-streaked face is racked with pain . |
| 16 | Build up to form a frame for the russet chrysanthemums |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Suppose that rectangular Cartesian coordinates are drawn to cover a rectangular sheet of paper and it is then rolled up to form a cylinder . |
| 19 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 23 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 24 | Maggie woke up to hear the sound of voices , one of which was raised in anger , John 's , she now realized . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Woke up to find the drinking water had frozen . |
| 27 | I woke up to find the doctor lifting me very carefully into my own bed . |
| 28 | Since 1977 a case law has been built up to define the limits of the availability of this remedy , which proved very popular . |
| 29 | BCG also argued that a company with a balanced portfolio of products would use cash flows generated from the cash cows to invest in selected problem children , which would be built up to become the stars of the future . |
| 30 | 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 . |