Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun sg] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 2 | In everyday practice — and CSM does work every day and not just on those when a practolol or a benoxaprofen blows up in its face — this leads to an informality of conduct of business which was carefully cultivated by the late Sir Derrick Dunlop from the earliest days of the Committee on Safety of Drugs , CSM 's forebear . |
| 3 | We go with him , and our sisters too , and sometimes a hare jumps out in front of us or a pheasant flies up from the ditch . |
| 4 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |
| 5 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 6 | Sometimes the dog would bark for no apparent reason and they assumed that it had sensed a wildcat or a leopard stealing up in silence through the darkness . |
| 7 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 8 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |
| 9 | Well when you 've got a fence or a shed or a garage to cover up . |
| 10 | IT CA N'T be very long before a rapist or a murderer stands up in court and pleads in defence : ‘ It was n't me , Your Honour , it was the Press . ’ |
| 11 | Plus soup , tinned meat , crackers , chocolate and a billycan to boil up in . ’ |
| 12 | The next day 1 was canvassing in Sutton Coldfield and a policeman came up to me . |
| 13 | And a bubble blew up under the mud , and when the bubble was as big as an elephant it burst , and out popped Mrs Dinwiddie . |
| 14 | " It 's a service place , and we can get a meal and a drink sent up , " I said to Seddon . |
| 15 | After continuing to Paignton , the party changed platforms for a short steam hauled run over the scenic Paignton & Dartmouth Railway , operated by the Dart Valley Railway Company , and a river cruise up the Dart with a difference . |
| 16 | Two of his close friends were being kept in detention so Luke and a chum dressed up as terrorists . |
| 17 | Pigeons pester for food , and a squirrel comes up , drawn by the rustle of Rizlas . |
| 18 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 19 | On the advice of City experts , a director general and a board made up of MPs , councillors and activists will run the ramshackle national organisation like a private company . |
| 20 | And a worm came up and slithered over one … |
| 21 | Luke , nicknamed Lucky after a string of mishaps , escaped with just grazes — and a tyre mark up his back . |
| 22 | The other day I was on a plane , and a man came up to me and was absolutely thrilled to see me . |
| 23 | At the back of the hall a handicapped woman sat quietly in a wheelchair and a man paced up and down , a tiny Down 's syndome baby gurgling in his arms . |
| 24 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 25 | can I just say something but I might get an acid and a carbonate mixed up with an acid and a metal . |
| 26 | ‘ My brother 's office , ’ Miss Evans said in a hushed voice and hurried them through into a narrow , dark hall with closed doors and a stair rising up . |
| 27 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 28 | This invitation is also open to former members of the Scholarship Scheme , several of whom have found the Summer School an excellent ‘ refresher course ’ , and a way to catch up with the progress of their colleagues . |
| 29 | We had a late luncheon , cold fowl and a salad got up by Liza , walked in the Park in the afternoon , worked , and in the evening had a dish of warm milk and white bread , sprinkled with sugar , quite as Wordsworth himself might have done . |
| 30 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |