Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | How 's about easing up on the sentence , it is Easter after all . ’ |
| 3 | The new ticket office opens in the east stand on monday so no more getting piss wet through queueing up by the back of the west stand ( except for home match days ) . |
| 4 | For members of the nobility the struggles of Lancaster and York could have drastic results , particularly for those who incurred forfeiture through ending up on the losing side ; although attainders could be reversed and lands restored , this might take a long time ( 130 , Ch.5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 6 | The immediate remedy is usually to petition for winding up in the public interest , so that a provisional liquidator ( the Official Receiver ) can be appointed , halting the company 's activities . |
| 7 | The procedure for winding up by the court . |
| 8 | A RUGBY fan broke her leg after ending up at the bottom of a ruck which spilled over the sideline . |
| 9 | After signing up with the health authority at the Brom borough Village Leisure Hotel , venue for an NHS Health at Work conference , Chris went to his first assignment , talking to pupils at nearby Bromborough County Primary School . |
| 10 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 11 | After holing up for the winter of 2512 the horde descended into the eastern provinces of the Empire . |
| 12 | After coming up with the idea of the specialised oil , Augusto Odone contacted a dozen scientists around the world working on myelin repair . |
| 13 | Winona Ryder is the reluctant member of the elite ‘ Heathers ’ crowd who becomes an unwitting murderess after hooking up with the new boy at school , rough diamond Christian Slater — giving his best Jack Nicholson impersonation . |
| 14 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 15 | Saturday 's defeat of leaders Muckamore by Cregagh left Holywood with an excellent chance of catching up with the leaders , but on Sunday they conspired to lose all wickets for a mere when chasing Carrick 's total of 177 . |
| 16 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 17 | I pulled myself up the safety line and made my way past the tangle of tethers up to the surface , where the boat tender was frantically pulling in all the lines . |
| 18 | It 's pretty smoky — the trains give off this browny smoke and it do n't blow away — it just sort of drifts up to the roof . |
| 19 | Finally , I propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and I would please ask you to wait until you have been called . |
| 20 | The onset of insolvency is the date of presentation of an administration petition or the date of commencement of winding up by the presentation of a winding up petition or a resolution by the company to go into liquidation . |
| 21 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 22 | The most common beginner 's mistake is to sit too far aft in the boat and that causes a great wrist a tail of to come up from the trunk . |
| 23 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 24 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 25 | And they were not ‘ luxuries ’ but , in the higher standard of living , had become essentials for anyone with the modest ambition of keeping up with the Jones 's — wireless sets , gramophones , motor bikes , motor cars , vacuum cleaners , geysers , Oxford Bags , artificial silk stockings , tennis racquets and steel-shafted mashie niblicks . |
| 26 | Staff already have challenging task of keeping up with the demands of an ever changing national curriculum , if every book they bought cost seventeen and a half per cent more they 'd simply have to buy fewer books . |
| 27 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 28 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 29 | The problem was often of living up to the construction of masculinity . |
| 30 | The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman . |