Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would wait for an hour or so , reading a newspaper or catching up on paperwork , then he would go to the McCausland counter and hire a car . |
| 2 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 3 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 4 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 5 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 6 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 7 | Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer . |
| 8 | His characters do not travel by flying carpet or converse with wild animals or meet up with angels and demons , in the manner of other contemporary fictional heroes and heroines . |
| 9 | This means a punter can follow the price movements himself , or obtain up to date prices from his stockbroker . |
| 10 | A vertical window covering which can be rolled up on a spring-roller attachment , or drawn up by cords threaded through rings . |
| 11 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
| 12 | A witness in the family proceedings court who refuses to give evidence or produce any document once he gets to court may be committed to prison for a term not exceeding one month or fined up to £1,000 or both ( MCA , s97(4) ) . |
| 13 | Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty . |
| 14 | When flowering is over clean containers and put away until next year , or pot up with winter pansies . |
| 15 | Such bits and pieces considered as perquisites could either be disposed of directly or worked up into articles to be sold . |
| 16 | There could be more awareness of the ways in which women with children can get out of the home to meet socially or take up outside employment , and more facilities to increase those opportunities . |
| 17 | Right now you come out or go up to red . |
| 18 | Tack into suitable gap when at least half the time has elapsed or harden up on port if a big enough gap presents itself |
| 19 | It is to be accepted that tasks and programmes will have the character of ‘ experimental action ’ , and some of the experiment will fail , or end up with results different from those expected . |
| 20 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 21 | This usually entailed Branson being the first to let off fire-extinguishers , initiate a food fight , or dress up in fishnet stockings and make-up for the inevitable fancy-dress party . |
| 22 | If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence . |
| 24 | The hunting season for the palombe is short but deadly , and if you go up into the hills while it is on , the local men will be crouched there in their camouflage jackets , or lined up at stands along the roads , their shotguns aimed hungrily out over the valley . |
| 25 | Serve it as a delicious liqueur , or topped up with soda or tonic . |
| 26 | Otherwise there can be long delays while machines are sent away , or queue up for attention from the one person in the country who knows how they operate . |
| 27 | Inclusive insurance against actual loss or damage up to £250 per parcel . |
| 28 | Free insurance against loss or damage up to £5,000 . |
| 29 | It has a much ‘ saltier ’ taste than rock salt , which is mined or pumped up with water from underground layers of salt caused by pre-historic lakes drying up . |
| 30 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |