Example sentences of "[vb past] up [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 2 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 3 | Claire Bennett and Welsh international Vicki Broadbent of Mold , teamed up to lift the women 's doubles crown , beating Claire Bullen Evans of Prestatyn and Nicola Jones of St Asaph 6–3 , 7–5 . |
| 4 | Penry got up to take the trays . |
| 5 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 6 | Crooks signed up to enjoy the benefits of corruption and to lend their power . |
| 7 | Spurts of flame began to flicker here and there and presently leapt up to redden the fringes of the great smoke cloud which hung above them .... |
| 8 | The surprise came when IBM immediately leaped up to deny the reports . |
| 9 | Early one morning , I ran up to find the horses had the same idea . |
| 10 | ‘ Off with their heads ! ’ she shouted , and soldiers hurried up to take the gardeners away . |
| 11 | And the plants that Thorn-EMI set up to press the discs will remain in mothballs . |
| 12 | This is despite the near completion of a £70,000 five year project set up to save the paths . |
| 13 | Most countries have systems of government that are relatively modern creations , either designed after cataclysmic political events which required the setting up of entirely new institutions , or set up to meet the needs of newly created or newly independent states . |
| 14 | In one area of the central fruit-growing region , north-east of Santiago , 600 seasonal workers have joined a new union set up to address the needs of the seasonal labourers and their families and to negotiate with employers . |