Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 2 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 3 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 4 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 5 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
| 6 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 7 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I have n't , ’ said Sally , ‘ and Ed was also fed up by the way the deal was done . |
| 9 | He was faced with one setback after another , as we shall see , and most people would have given up along the way . |
| 10 | The reason the market economy or catallaxy produces fresh wealth rather than simply redistributing existing wealth is critically bound up with the way in which market prices act as signals containing vital information . |
| 11 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 12 | It lies engulfed amid the new colonies that have recently sprung up along the way to Mehrauli , a small enclave of mud-walled , flat-roofed village life besieged by a ring of high-rise apartments . |
| 13 | Instead of saying that in the absence of a community there can be no rules , we say that what is wrong with the solipsist 's rules is that they can not be set up in the way he pretends , by using a private experience as a sample . |
| 14 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 15 | Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer . |
| 16 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |