Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 2 | The company has promised much in the past but to date failed to perform up to the market 's expectations . |
| 3 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 4 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 5 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 6 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 8 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 9 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 10 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 11 | And there were some tears , too , when they were all getting ready to go home : someone had got someone else 's paper hat ; and that was somebody else 's whistle ; even coats got mixed up between the Pratt twins . |
| 12 | One retired to Beirut after going bankrupt , one got mixed up in a betting scandal , and the third was convicted of tax-dodging . |
| 13 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 14 | Kenneth Clarke watched from the window as the police got mixed up in the brawl . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're prepared to accept that you just got caught up in a drug bust . |
| 16 | It appears that the Airborne and Commandos got caught up in the shelling and suffered casualties , dead and wounded . ’ |
| 17 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 18 | His parents , who live at Clevelys , near Blackpool , feared he had strayed outside the airport and got caught up in the disaster . |
| 19 | Another man , a social worker got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 20 | Another man , a social worker , got caught up in the melee and was forced out of another car , but police released him when they realized he was not connected . |
| 21 | You said you got caught up in the fighting , my husband Michael said he 'd love to hear more about that . |
| 22 | His horse , Travel Over , got caught up in the tape at the second false start and came back from Aintree lame . |
| 23 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 24 | In another incident , workers became caught up in a forest of 50 metre-deep piles supporting a fourstorey office block in Park Lane . |
| 25 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 26 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 27 | It was absolutely great and confirmed to everybody in the band that what I was doing was viable , and I got picked up by an agent right away — the same night , in fact . ’ |
| 28 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 29 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 30 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |