Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the Ministry of Defence before our Secretary of State agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for Eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in December ninety two , so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of Eurofighter two thousand . |
| 2 | Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now . |
| 5 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 6 | It still exists and it will undoubtedly catch up with the retail price index shortly and go ahead of it from 1994 onwards , as the direct tax burden which is included in the TPI rises faster than the indirect taxes which go into the RPI . |
| 7 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 9 | With patterned fabric , the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain . |
| 10 | And in this case we had to align the timber so that a sheet of plasterboard would line up with the projecting wall |
| 11 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 12 | A host of current Irish League stars who came through the ranks will line up in a special BB challenge match . |
| 13 | Equally , seven Yorkshire clubs will line up in the 1992–93 Pilkington Cup competition , two as Yorkshire qualifiers , three as National Division Three qualifiers and two as National Division Two qualifiers not competing in the Yorkshire Cup . |
| 14 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's called feminism , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I hope you never get it , because it is absolutely awful and it makes you swell up to an enormous size and when you have it really badly you go round bonking men on the head and blaming them for everything . |
| 16 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 17 | So you can allocate up to a third . |
| 18 | In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators . |
| 19 | We do n't break up till the twenty eighth . |
| 20 | A DOCTOR and a student will warm up for an Arctic adventure by spending tonight in a seafood freezer . |
| 21 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 22 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 23 | Whatever figure you choose , you can then borrow up to a given multiple of that amount whenever you like , either in a lump sum or in small irregular amounts . |
| 24 | But she , she could bleeding dress up to the nines . |
| 25 | The girls bringing in the parcel could dress up like the bridegroom-to-be , taking his work or hobby as the theme , or like any male characters such as footballers , policemen or policewomen wearing sunglasses , gorillas with cigars , city gents in bowler hats , or a spoof pop group of boys in short trousers and caps singing , ‘ Will you still need me when I 'm sixty-four ? ’ . |
| 26 | She did n't feel up to a zealous dyke conversion . |
| 27 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 28 | ‘ He did n't quite grow up with a happy trusting nature like you and George . ’ |
| 29 | Beauty is often the object of envy by a plain person , yet people whose prettiness as children captivated the adults around them may grow up with a severe disadvantage . |
| 30 | He remembers his lonely school days , in assured manner that his son will not grow up in the same way . |