Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 2 | I am anxious that my grandsons , Prince William and Prince Harry , should grow up in as happy and stable an environment as possible because they represent not just my family 's future , but a continuation of a tradition which has bound the British people together for centuries . |
| 3 | I reckon we should head up to actually . |
| 4 | and we should finish up with about six sides roughly . |
| 5 | Ideally you should end up with less than six and probably more than one or two remedies to consider in greater detail in the tables . |
| 6 | But top insurers said terrorism was a political problem not a commercial one , so the Government should pick up at least part of the tab for future claims . |
| 7 | The two figures should add up to around 75 per cent . |
| 8 | Okay we 'll give up for today . |
| 9 | You 'll end up with about a dozen letters on mantel again cos I always forget to post things . |
| 10 | This was perhaps the one element of veiled blackmail in Baldwin 's dealing with the King , the faint suggestion that if he was too awkward with the Government he might end up without either the Throne or the freedom to marry Mrs Simpson . |
| 11 | I 'll put up with just about anything from you . |
| 12 | Er , generally and for the most part and for the most part at the end of the day they 'll come up with completely irrelevant er things . |
| 13 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 14 | The big chains admitted that house sales could dry up between now and Christmas , as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts . |
| 15 | And of course you risk yourself still further by positioning yourself under an overhanging edge — you could finish up at least partially buried if there is a cave-in . |
| 16 | If no one took up the rights issue , Corporate could end up with nearly 29 per cent of the shares , but a 20 per cent stake is more likely . |
| 17 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 18 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 19 | A 2.25 cu m ( 500 gallon ) cesspool could fill up in as little as a week with a family of four living in the house ; a 18 cu m cesspool would last for at least a month and is the minimum size recommended . |
| 20 | I used to go up past there believing the that the minister was the the represented the Antichrist . |
| 21 | At times they veer towards the kind of sulk-metal that dodgy punk bands used to come up with when the guitarist was a closet Jimmy Page buff . |
| 22 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 23 | Not only does this increase costs and emphasise differences between richer and poorer children but it also contributes to a very inflexible and inefficient distribution of learning materials , since under this system ‘ shared ’ material is never bought — only class texts — and it is by no means uncommon to find that as a result a class may end up with only two or three books at its disposal , all in multiple copies . |
| 24 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
| 25 | At the same time it must be borne in mind that in literature , prominence and deviance frequently take a more extreme form ( for example in the Gormenghast passage on p 29 ) which would show up against practically any norm we should choose ; this more general deviance can be demonstrated by taking one 's relative norms from as broad a range as possible . |
| 26 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 27 | They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan . |
| 28 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 29 | The door was solid and would hold up for quite a long time . |
| 30 | Erm Peter , North Yorkshire , I think it 's appropriately addressed there and I think there are so many elements of it that er I think you w you would end up with perhaps a very long explanatory section . |