Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it would be an even bigger surprise if Bulls were to slip up in their final game against Dunfermline Barr Electrics . |
| 2 | The Youngest Son would stay with us in Al Ain , catching up on his studies in order to graduate with his class from secondary school , but it would be a week before the Sheikh and his elder sons drew up in their big Mercedes and brought that filling of the house that always comes when men are at home , the heavy laughter , the smell of pipe smoke , screeches of excitement from the children as they are tossed high in the air . |
| 3 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 4 | GEARING up for their 25th anniversary , the British Aviation Preservation Council staged its 98th quarterly conference at the Yorkshire Air Museum ( YAM ) , Elvington , on November 2 . |
| 5 | Now Leicester need a win in their last game , and they have to hope Boro slip up in their last two , at home to Grimsby on Tuesday and at Wolves next Saturday , if they are to keep hold of second place and avoid the nerve-wracking play-offs . |
| 6 | ‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’ |
| 7 | Tommy took charge again as the lads of Number Eleven Platoon lurched from pub to pub becoming drunker and drunker , before finally ending up in their established local , the Volunteer , on Leith Walk . |
| 8 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 9 | Women can form a communal bond quickly , but may be reluctant to stand up for their personal views . |
| 10 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 11 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 12 | At the age of 20 , Gedge was willing to placate his parents by taking on such a squalid job , but just a few years later , he was more than prepared to stand up to their well-intentioned pressure . |
| 13 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 14 | That was what his sharp intelligence had picked up from their first meeting . |
| 15 | Our large corporate donors are unable to come up with their usual contributions . |
| 16 | It may happen when parents have indoctrinated their children , that is , laid down a set of beliefs without allowing the children freedom to think for themselves and to come up with their own reactions . |
| 17 | European manufacturers are afraid of getting left behind if the emerging handheld personal communicators generate a sudden rush of consumer excitement , and rather than wait for their labs to come up with their own local products , are weighing putting their names on one of the American products and manufacturing it locally . |
| 18 | DEC says it has no plans to licence its SVR4 work to other OSF/1 probables like Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp , fully expecting them to come up with their own solutions in this area . |
| 19 | The suggestion was made that there should be community discussions with LEDU , that West Belfast people , in the absence of ideas from the IDB , are going to have to come up with their own ideas and develop them in conjunction with the universities , industrialists , and so on . |
| 20 | TOUGH guys Sylvester Stallone , 46 , and Arnold Schwarzenegger are squaring up for their latest film The Last Action Hero . |
| 21 | These tend to pop out of the oblong types of pods and may not line up with their positive contacts properly . |
| 22 | We counted 17 dead hinds in the wood , most still curled up in their last sleep , dead from cold and wet , exhaustion and starvation . |
| 23 | Actors are very emotional people who get caught up in their own make-believe — I would n't trust an actor at all ! ’ |
| 24 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 25 | But so few local breeds had undergone any kind of specialized breeding to improve the stock , and the Western animals had to attempt to catch up with their long-established and highly pampered Oriental counterparts . |
| 26 | Not all British private-eye stories match up to their American counterparts , but it can be done . |
| 27 | ‘ These people tend to take advantage of the trust they have built up with their official hat on . |
| 28 | Budgets should be built up from their fundamental components ; for example , four staff at £20000 per annum gives staff costs of £80000 . |
| 29 | the female provarian no the female preference to male clothes , B , children , children 's habit of dressing up in their own parents ' clothes , C , a morbid fear of eggs ? |
| 30 | For the first time this year , Messrs Cronin and Co will be looking up to their opposite numbers and it will be essential that both blockers and sweepers are doing their job . |