Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But first I must catch up with Posh Porky as I do n't ‘ ave much capital left of my own . ’ |
| 2 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 3 | THE ENVIRONMENT Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday finally rejected plans to build a new town of 4,800 homes at Foxley Wood , Hampshire , saying the county council should come up with fresh county-wide plans . |
| 4 | The seeds should come up in neat , well-spaced rows , and be easier to prick out than thickly sown clusters . |
| 5 | The days are long gone when drinkers should put up with warm and often out-of-condition beer . |
| 6 | Repairs and maintenance No one should put up with unrepaired property . |
| 7 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 8 | Tomorrow should brighten up with sunny intervals and the outlook for Friday is mainly dry with sunny spells . |
| 9 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 10 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 11 | Britain may stock up on strategic metals |
| 12 | It could be a hazard only where it might build up in poorly ventilated buildings . |
| 13 | ‘ If the mother thinks her calf is dead , she 'll dry up for good . |
| 14 | we 'll finish up with right angles first . |
| 15 | So it 'll end up with cosy chats in the Beak 's office . |
| 16 | Anyway , with the topsy-turvy results this season has thrown up , it 's anybody 's guess what we 'll end up with after Man U v Forest has run its course on The Match on Sunday ( ITV , 3.25pm ) . |
| 17 | America could be welcomed into CERN as a full partner , and experiments planned for Texan caverns might end up beneath French hills . |
| 18 | He feared it might end up in deep humiliation . |
| 19 | If there were a sufficiently powerful explosion close by it might go up by sympathetic detonation . |
| 20 | We want to affiliate her in horse classes — I know she wo n't be able to manage lengthened strides very easily because of her conformation , but we hope we 'll get up to Medium level . ’ |
| 21 | Very clearly then , we 've got a proposal that we do n't pursue that option , which we 've paid the len rent this year , we 've paid the lease this year , so we ca n't backtrack on that , but maybe that 'll come up for future discussion . |
| 22 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 23 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 24 | He and his wife were badly shaken and decided to move out of Ulster so that their children could grow up under normal conditions . |
| 25 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 26 | Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers . |
| 27 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 28 | With the associated tax break , the promised returns could gross up into handsome rewards . |
| 29 | You could end up with brown patches that wo n't go away . |
| 30 | But because such funds ca n't be used for staff , education officials fear we could end up with smart new buildings and no teachers to put in them . |