Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , I can promise our customers that we will be putting everything into opening up as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Rosa slipped out of their bed , and , imagining herself on water , trod as lightly as she could ; her feet left moist imprints on the coldness of the tiled floor which shrivelled up as quickly as she made them , until she too vanished through the door . |
| 3 | " I shall have to pull up as near as I can and let you out , said Woodie . |
| 4 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Not feeling up to arguing the point , she left quietly , knowing everyone else in the Carlisle Flint team was wound up as tight as the drivers , waiting for the green light . |
| 6 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 7 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 8 | He must have grown up now just as she had done . |
| 9 | The increase in the use of HP , though less marked , is important as HP is used for expensive purchases which are unlikely to crop up as often as the smaller ones financed by other types of credit . |
| 10 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 11 | The early months were marred by the failure of the economy to pick up as quickly as expected after the election . |
| 12 | ‘ No officers coughin' up as far as I can see , ’ said Tommy . |
| 13 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 14 | If it does not show up well enough as the screen dump replace with the following text : |
| 15 | Laura insisted that they be made up as near as possible in the original manner , from the cutting and colouring to the hand-sewn hems ; historical accuracy was to be paramount . |
| 16 | He appeared totally oblivious of her presence and did n't even look up as far as she was aware . |
| 17 | By this time , the southern part of the north Atlantic was presumably wide open , and I strongly suspect a crack going up as far as east Greenland . |
| 18 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 19 | The recession has , however made its presence felt in one particular respect — publishers are not paying up as promptly as they used to . |
| 20 | New pop had rapidly lost its mischief and settled down into a post-rock , post-teenage maturity , peddling naff fantasies of sophistication to a new generation of moneyed teeny-boppers whose only desire was to grow up as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Some survived , the Dornier Do 217 being broken up as late as 1960 ( what a tragedy ! ) . this remarkable exhibition would surely be a money-spinner today . |
| 22 | Paddy Mayne was to concentrate on the road between Agheila and Bouerat , while B Squadron was to move to the west , raiding up as far as Tripoli . |
| 23 | Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze . |
| 24 | Too many pilots allow their glider to zoom up too steeply as they leave the ground . |
| 25 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 26 | Get up as fast as possible . |
| 27 | Tony and I get up as quickly as we can , brushing the snow free from clothes before putting them on so that it will not melt with the heat from our bodies . |
| 28 | In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back . |
| 29 | The entire clearing was now lit up as brightly as at mid-day , with an eerie green glow . |
| 30 | In the field of New Testament studies , it is as if each new discovery , each new assertion , is swallowed up as quickly as it can be made . |