Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 2 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 3 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 4 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 5 | So you 're going to stand up in front of a judge and say all that , are you , Wally ? |
| 6 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 7 | There he was encouraged to stand up in front of other patients and describe his own particular addiction . |
| 8 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 9 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 10 | Well of course tha that might just be intimidation by large numbers of other people , like you know having to stand up in front of a group of other people , I think anybody feels the same . |
| 11 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 12 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 13 | The living room has to house some or all of these things and if it 's used for eating has to come up with storage for china , glass and cutlery too . |
| 14 | British officials understand China 's concern at Mr Patten 's plans — but he has to come up with arrangement for elections in 1995 and although the colony 's business community is cool towards them there are growing demands for democracy . |
| 15 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 16 | WOLVES paid a high price for their failure to come up with cash for David Kelly last season . |
| 17 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 18 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 19 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 20 | Do you find that it is a particular type of child who tends to come up in front of you ? |
| 21 | I do n't suppose you could be persuaded to come up by train for a night or two could you ? = that would be so very super , a treat of the first order . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Peachcake , if you marry this young man , you 're bound to come up against prejudice from time to time . |
| 23 | Even after the scene with El-Jorr , Hurley did nothing to tighten up on security for the NARCOG operation . |
| 24 | Can he say whether productivity in the British coal industry is beginning to catch up with productivity in the coal industries of our major competitors ? |
| 25 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 26 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 27 | This brief discussion of the nature and importance of educational context in curriculum change would appear to lead up towards discussion of two major issues . |
| 28 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 29 | A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) . |
| 30 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |