Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have said before — and I say again — that unless the organisations and individuals concerned are prepared to stand up to resist the aggression of developers , we will lose many , many more aerodromes . |
| 2 | This will occur once a pidgin-speaking community is sufficiently settled for children to be born , and to grow up hearing the pidgin spoken all around them . |
| 3 | This is far from obvious in snowy conditions , and attempts to go up form the stance are forced off left . |
| 4 | If borrowing takes the strain , taxes — not just our taxes , but the next generation 's too — have to go up to service the debt . |
| 5 | As she celebrated with champagne , emigrant Deirdre Donovan ( 30 ) revealed that she was about to give up entering the draw . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to have to give up standing the market , Ma , ’ she announced quietly . |
| 7 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 8 | ‘ People used to queue up to get a pub but that 's all stopped now . |
| 9 | If you mess up the hour or so afterwards , you no doubt will never want to line up to cover the distance again . |
| 10 | This provoked further controversy , and the pressure of letters continued to build up urging the Society to declare more fully its membership criteria . |
| 11 | Anyway , I had enough to save up to buy a Raleigh bike one pound it cost — which meant I could cycle over to Middleton in Teesdale on my night off . |
| 12 | Julie Hilton from Gloucester failed to turn up to answer the charges and was found guilty in her absence . |
| 13 | During all the years I went to school in Parma she never failed to get up to warm the kitchen and give me hot drinks , however early it had to be ; it was sometimes five o'clock , if I had to finish work from the night before . |
| 14 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 15 | In England and Wales they 'll have to pay up to double the Poll Tax on any empty farm cottages they own , although farmers in Scotland are going to be exempt from this . |
| 16 | He would n't want to end up sharing a cell with Mike Tyson , would he ? ’ |
| 17 | It is very easy to end up wasting a lot of time and money preparing reports that you do n't read and no one else does either . |
| 18 | Whatever happens , I always seem to end up watching The South Bank Show , something I never do normally ; the changing of the clocks is forever associated with the Arts and adenoids . |
| 19 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 20 | Want me to end up making the tea . |
| 21 | Not being attractive she is unlikely to end up captivating a man . |
| 22 | Defending the modest target , Mr Li said , ‘ An excessively high growth rate is liable to end up destabilising the economy . ’ |
| 23 | No one wants to end up fighting a patent battle in court because financially only the lawyers win . |
| 24 | We do n't have the money to cough up to maintain the operation . ’ |
| 25 | Possibly the role is to induce the epidermis which it comes into contact with to fold up to form a nerve cord . |
| 26 | The Government will also encourage more family doctors to hold budgets to ‘ buy ’ services for patients , and is looking at ways to enable smaller practices to team up to secure the advantages of fund holding . |