Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |
| 2 | Sleep is commonly disturbed in one way or another : some people nod off as soon as they get home and sit down ; they wake up at midnight with the TV still on — and then ca n't get back to sleep again till 3am ; some people find it impossible to wake up in the morning and getting out of bed is a real struggle ; others are awake at half-past four in the morning with their brains buzzing and churning ; some people find themselves getting very sleepy when difficult or anxiety-making things happen . |
| 3 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 4 | Now unit six is very likely to come up in the exam so when you do this test for Monday you are in effect preparing for the exam . |
| 5 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 6 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 7 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 8 | I wo n't be able to wake up in the morning ! |
| 9 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 10 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 11 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 12 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 13 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 14 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |
| 15 | Both sides were finding it ruinously expensive to keep up in the race . |
| 16 | If it had , they were liable to end up in the Husayn twins ' pockets . |