Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 3 | We might then only end up with a series of discrete micro-studies that could not be articulated . |
| 4 | Cos they wo n't all go up on a tree . |
| 5 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |
| 6 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 7 | I 'd sooner wind up in a debtors ’ prison ! ’ |
| 8 | But , in fact , virtually no behavioural tendency which constitutes genuine action can just show up in a cultural context ‘ as itself ’ . |
| 9 | TEESSIDE Polytechnic student Jonathan Welfare could soon clean up with an idea to rid the danger which dogs our footsteps . |
| 10 | Japan may thus end up with a financial system that is caught halfway between freedom and regulation , and more dangerous than either . |
| 11 | You can just go up for a ride , letting someone else do all the work while you enjoy the sensation , or learn to pilot the thing for yourself . |
| 12 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 13 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 14 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 15 | The relay will usually free up after a couple of doses of light oil in this manner . |
| 16 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 17 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 18 | ‘ I doubt if His Grace would ever stand up in a court-room to give evidence on my behalf , but I counted on Magistrate Peck being afraid to put it to the test . ’ |
| 19 | She also mentioned I was going to the dentist next week ( correct ) , I would travel often ( debatable ) and that I would still end up with a lot of money ( probably wrong ) . |
| 20 | does he always end up with a summing in , summing up ? |
| 21 | Carve them up however you wished , you would always end up with an array of monotonously similar looking bits . |
| 22 | No foe should ever sneak up on an exhausted Marine slumbering during prolonged combat . |
| 23 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 24 | The question of money would always come up with a team operation like the ‘ Carry Ons ’ . |
| 25 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 26 | It was like being adrift on a warm sea , floating on a slow , swelling tide that would eventually wash up on a sun-kissed beach in little breakers of sparkling foam . |
| 27 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 28 | The Pezzetta starter deserves a good , ordinary Italian white wine to go with it , that could also double up as an apéritif . |
| 29 | Teddy can also line up with a party balloon and there 's a heart motif to complete a picture to knit and give with love . |
| 30 | Once the bus stopped , however , he was immediately up and out , using the ten minutes available to sketch in the ingredients of a scene which he would later work up in a hotel room . |