Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises .
2 I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end .
3 Muslim ones tend to shrivel up at the thought of their women going out to work .
4 ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’
5 They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill .
6 ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs .
7 ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me .
8 Finally , whatever else you do , if you want to keep up with the very latest versions of software , it 's pointless pirating .
9 ‘ If I were you , James , I would n't call these people niggers — unless , of course , you want to end up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital . ’
10 ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’
11 Well not unless you want to get up in the morning and have a bath Jonathan , it 's up to you .
12 The German Greens want to link up with the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) for the next federal elections , due in 1994 .
13 no , if they 're , if they 're , if they 're not doing it , you know , the way The Body Shop did it , probably wo n't come to anything , mm , right , erm , are there any other matters arising , people want to bring up from the minutes ? no .
14 After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team .
15 Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in .
16 Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in .
17 Ticking off another tower is known as ‘ tower grabbing , and you always seem to end up in the pub afterwards ’ .
18 ‘ You know that the twins always seem to get up at the crack of dawn .
19 It is not simply a question of availability of space , but of a belief that , as one mother put it , ‘ I like to wake up in the night and see all my family around me . ’
20 We hold special events every month , with an Indian day next month , and whenever possible we like to dress up for the occasion . ’
21 The afternoon er I like to get up in the morning I like to talk and sing be happy !
22 Increasing amounts of pesticides , herbicides and fungicides are used in agriculture and these chemicals tend to build up in the soil and are absorbed by our food plants .
23 The remaining diagrams of Fig.9.1 show how these phenomena continue to show up in the profile .
24 We use to do that at top of Road , we use to go up by the bus stop and
25 I suppose he 'll take it easy now and try to strengthen up for the winter
26 In clinical practice we try to keep up with the scientific literature and adapt our actions accordingly .
27 As Dave suggests , it 's often more use to read up on the natural background of the fish than to read a fishkeeper 's account of breeding it .
28 Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal .
29 Tradesmen presenting inflated bills have no interest in countering the popular belief that slow payers tend to end up in the Hudson River wearing cement slippers .
30 I know from my own life of faith that my thoughts , my words and my often fail to match up to the Christian ideal there is much that I do that hurts other people and there is much that I do that does not reflect Christ .
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