Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is very well in on a 7lb higher mark than when hacking up at Ascot in October , and has since bolted up in a conditions race at Newbury . |
| 2 | Bear in mind that cold cures and certain drinks contain prohibited substances that show up in a drugs test . |
| 3 | The garden was planned by professional designer Naila Green who came up with a snakes and ladders theme . |
| 4 | Green stars are allocated at these shows and are made up on a points basis . |
| 5 | I 'd sooner wind up in a debtors ’ prison ! ’ |
| 6 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 7 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 8 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 9 | This giant fashion T-Shirt is one large size that will fit up to a 42″ chest , and is a great way to show your support of WWF 's imported work . |
| 10 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 11 | The strategy which controls the frequency , duration and destination is usually set up on a systems availability base rather than being controlled by the quantity of data to be transferred and its " design delay " costs . |
| 12 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 13 | to lift up onto a mares back . |
| 14 | LEEDS UNITED 'S Steve Hodge was last night lined up for a Pounds 700,000 move to Everton . |
| 15 | When you sign up for a savings scheme check the clauses for giving notice . |
| 16 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 17 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 18 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 19 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 20 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 21 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |