Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 2 | If , also like me , you have a weakness for stockpiling past copies of nursing journals because you intend to catch up on such and such an article , then it is worth investing in some proper journal binders . |
| 3 | The Leeds Permanent and Abbey National want to go up by 1.25 points or more . |
| 4 | WHATEVER their politics , Poles expect to wait up to 20 years for a new telephone . |
| 5 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think it will take the investigators long to come up with enough to disqualify Louis from international yacht racing . |
| 7 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
| 8 | Erm voting patterns , not much to say really on this erm if you want to read up on this there 's a little sect rather interesting section in Burn on this in his chapter on local government elections . |
| 9 | As one manager expressed it : ‘ Managers appear to turn up at 9.00 and leave at 4.30 , but they take their problems home with them . ’ |
| 10 | If you want to transfer up to 4 players , just send me an E-mail telling me which ones you wish to sell & buy . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's something I want to check up on first . |
| 12 | He and Mr Weston , whose wife 's relatives served with the Fusiliers , have already spent three years on the book and expect to take up to two more years to finish it . |
| 13 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 14 | Coverage is further restricted because the same titles tend to crop up in each paper . |
| 15 | Those that tend to split up into smaller bulbs the following year , then take several years to reach flowering size , can be disappointing unless you replant with fresh bulbs each year . |
| 16 | ‘ Our resources are limited , but we hope to come up with some constructive recommendations , ’ said Coun Coppinger after the group 's first meeting yesterday . |
| 17 | Imagine cranking up with that ! |
| 18 | Both seem to crop up with predictable regularity on my visits to this part of the world . |
| 19 | Your child poses no risk to other children and is able to go to nursery , playgroup or school and enjoy growing up with other children as much as his or her health allows . |
| 20 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 21 | All the mature pop groups come from Scotland or the northernmost parts of England , but all their musical reference points seem bound up with American ideas of sophistication and glamour . |
| 22 | The first case which SAVE took up in this way was The Grange in Hampshire . |
| 23 | They seem to get up to all sorts of things nowadays . |
| 24 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 25 | ‘ Although the loss is temporary , I 've noticed that women who have had many pregnancies seem to wind up with thinner hair , ’ says Kingsley . |
| 26 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 27 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 28 | ‘ Make sure , Swift , ’ said the Headmaster , ‘ You never get caught up with that Mould boy . |
| 29 | If they start boxing young they never get caught up in that scene . ’ |
| 30 | Bet you get fed up with that job do n't you ? |