Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , where else would you go to meet up with the Duke and his followers ? ’ |
| 3 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 4 | One way or another they can expect to meet up with the majority of the players who will represent Canada at the ‘ 95 World Cup . |
| 5 | His place will be taken by Doddie Weir ( Melrose ) who will leave Edinburgh on Sunday to meet up with the squad when they arrive in Hong Kong on Monday . |
| 6 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 7 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she cried , beginning to gesticulate as she did when excited and then to square up like a boxer . |
| 9 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 10 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 11 | This young Samoyed will grow up much quicker than his companion , and must be trained not to jump up from the outset . |
| 12 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |
| 13 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 14 | There was a different rug on the floor but without the fire on it 's much warmer to curl up on a human . |
| 15 | He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . |
| 16 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 17 | Leonora chose a brightly coloured paperback novel about the Crusades , and went over to the fireplace to curl up on the sofa . |
| 18 | It was an act familiar to anyone , that is almost everyone , who has suffered from those self-inflicted illnesses that inspire only a feeling of wanting to curl up in a ball and be alone . |
| 19 | They are ideal for large breeds , or individuals which have a back ailment of any kind and may find it painful to curl up in a basket . |
| 20 | Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again . |
| 21 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 22 | She gripped the edge of the window sill , seemed to strain up on the window across the small of her back . |
| 23 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 24 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 25 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 26 | Did you want to stand up for a minute ? |
| 27 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 28 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 29 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 30 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |