Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 2 | My research up to 1970 was in cosmology , the study of the universe on a large scale . |
| 3 | They used to say , well I try and get my er my legs up for half an hour in the afternoon , but that 'd be about as much as th they 'd get in the way of rest . |
| 4 | The weather was so vile most of the time , and John so busy that we had quite a contented and simple domestic time , John whizzing away at the computer and me in the ( cane ) rocking chair with my feet up on another reading away . |
| 5 | My movements up to this had been quite natural , and if I could continue to make her think I was unaware of her presence , she would possibly give me a second chance . |
| 6 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 7 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 8 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |
| 9 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 10 | He 's mean , he 's moody and probably the coolest thing on the screen since James Dean thought , ‘ I wonder what it would look like if I pulled my collar up like this ’ . |
| 11 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 12 | As I started to make my way up through some bushes on the left of the kirk , something caught my eye and I stopped . |
| 13 | She counted them off , one by one , on the dial of her watch up to two o'clock . |
| 14 | We were negotiating with the erm Conservative group and during that period of negotiation we shifted their budget up by two and a half million pounds . |
| 15 | The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards . |
| 16 | She had made her mind up with little thought . |
| 17 | Rather than break their eating up into discrete meals , they typically eat more or less continuously . |
| 18 | On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it had agreed to buy another squadron of MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union , bringing its complement up to three squadrons . |
| 19 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |
| 20 | A JILTED woman who rang her ex-boyfriend up to 36 times a day has been cleared of phone pest charges because she was in love . |
| 21 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 22 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 23 | Brisk trade meant they were able to complete the building work earlier this year , bringing their capacity up from 12 to 18 guests . |
| 24 | Two of those people were then able to bring their score up to nineteen and one managed to answer all twenty questions . |
| 25 | and do n't forget first news of the football … on goals extra tomorrow teatime … our next sport takes us to Kingsholm in Gloucester and its curtain up for this week 's rugby review |
| 26 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 27 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 28 | In their opening up of public space , Baroque planners organized vast vistas in order to highlight central monumental features . |
| 29 | An account is given of their development up to 1988 . |
| 30 | Most SSD directors believe sharing information on unmet need could open their authority up to judicial review , according to a Community Care survey ( News , 1 April ) . |