Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only came up here cos they were closing . |
| 2 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's hard enough to get up there when we have to . |
| 4 | So she had sought to avoid it , only to end up back where she had started . |
| 5 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 6 | Oxford 's nothing to do with it , tho — I only ended up here cos I failed my A levels ( long story ) . |
| 7 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 8 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 9 | This makes the hollow stem go rubbery for a few seconds , but then it just stiffens up straight as it cools . |
| 10 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 11 | There might be some news this morning since he usually goes up on Sunday-though this week he 's been twice … |
| 12 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 13 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 14 | And that 's why he says to sleep and then if she could n't get to sleep she could like sit up tonight so he could get some sleep instead . |
| 15 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 16 | They have also gone up faster than the national figures . |
| 17 | But yeah he probably come past no he probably went up there as we come down that corner by erm Ipsleigh and when they come back we 'd probably gotten here by then . |
| 18 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 19 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 20 | They 're really curled up more than like a normal baby are n't they , they 're all sort of , you know , foetal position . |
| 21 | But badgers ' often show up better than most , and because they are endowed with stout claws on their front feet , there may be four or five distinct claw-marks showing even if the ground is too hard to reveal the rest of the print . |
| 22 | Many fruits change colour as they reach maturity and this can be a useful indicator , although not in every case : apples will often colour up early if occupied by a burrowing pest , some pear varieties only change colour once in store and marrows are past their best when they turn yellow . |
| 23 | Will you please get up now before I , there 's trouble ! |
| 24 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 25 | Argyle and Henderson ( 1985 ) , reviewing evidence about contact between siblings , suggest that this follows a U-shape , being high in childhood and teenage years , falling off in the middle of adult life , and then picking up again as the siblings move into old age . |
| 26 | First the spiral opens out as it does in a shell , but then closes up again as it approaches the other pole of the cell . |
| 27 | Mr Cedric Multhrop subsided into one of the comfortable armchairs in his lounge , then leapt up guiltily as though a mere hotel owner had no place to be sitting down in his guests ' domain . |
| 28 | He took no part in the digging but squatted on the edge of the ditch , fidgeting backwards and forwards , sometimes nibbling and then starting up suddenly as though he could hear some sound in the wood . |
| 29 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |
| 30 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |