Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 2 | How long they had been ‘ carrying ’ their susceptibility to that cold around with them just waiting to meet up with the right bugs will depend upon the individual circumstances of each of them . |
| 3 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 4 | A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle . |
| 5 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 6 | To try to meet up with the real thing . |
| 7 | As the water level lowered below the Deep Level horizon , it was decided to start driving a tunnel from the shaft side , to meet up with the advancing Deep Level from the south . |
| 8 | Not to marry , but just to meet up on a regular basis and do nice things together such as walks , long discussions about books and music , that sort of thing . |
| 9 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 10 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 11 | But in the sixties and seventies , that 's where all the kids used to jump up onto the flat roof , that was the area where they jumped up , so this could be a result of what has happened from there , I mean that 's why the |
| 12 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 13 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 14 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 15 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 16 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 17 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 18 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 19 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 20 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 21 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 22 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 23 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 24 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 25 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 26 | Stung , the League said yesterday that they expect ITV to come up with a new date within the next fortnight and they will not tolerate one beyond the scheduled season 's end of May 5 . |
| 27 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
| 28 | This left five days for the Patent Office and its advertising agency , Ayer , to come up with a new version . |
| 29 | Workers at Britain 's Institute of Geological Sciences aim , however , to come up with a new set of tools that can indicate minerals much further under the ground . |
| 30 | So , whichever way we bob and weave , I 'll be able to re-jig the data or reporting structures to come up with a new geographical analysis or responsibility centre , whatever way we want to report . ’ |