Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom .
2 Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving .
3 The Marxist thesis that power lies with whoever controls the " means of production " , is usually mixed up with an egalitarian thesis that each producer has a natural moral right to the power which his production generates .
4 Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop .
5 CIARAN McVeigh from Parkside Snooker Club , Lurgan whitewashed Kieran Erwin 3–0 in the Drumgor Top 64 tournament last night opening up with a 122 break .
6 At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service .
7 We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera .
8 We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces .
9 Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing .
10 Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) .
11 The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court .
12 As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill .
13 All her fifteen combed and scrubbed years rose up in an endless vista of baths and shampoos and clean underwear ; a cortege of full baths in which she had washed herself , a slithering file of bars of soap which she had rubbed to nothing against her flesh .
14 So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status .
15 The cars drew up for a quiet haggle , the girls got in .
16 They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top .
17 Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night .
18 A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks .
19 The cab drew up outside an enormous emporium in the very heart of the town , and Ellie alighted while Madame paid off the cab .
20 We drew up in a tiny village called Pontrobert in Powys — a particularly beautiful part of mid-Wales .
21 Outside in the war-torn street , Special Forces vehicles drew up in an uncompromising line .
22 She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds .
23 One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s .
24 For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair .
25 Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations .
26 If the plan goes through , the mine would push further west from the workings acquired when Wheal Jane lined up with a second mine , Mount Wellington , a couple of years ago .
27 She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again .
28 On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age .
29 It is not only the victims of mental or physical abuse who grow up with a faulty self-image .
30 This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write .
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