Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 2 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 3 | " We 'd better catch up with the others , had n't we ? " he said quickly , gesturing along the track . |
| 4 | Sport now … and as England 's cricketers ' hopes of saving the ashes go up in smoke … we 'll catch up with the women who 're hoping to restore some national pride . |
| 5 | Bernice could n't see what he thought he would be able to do even if they did catch up with the shapechangers . |
| 6 | Well I do n't know , ha ha have n't you got a position where er as , as we began to , to see last week , there is this radicalization coming in but the , the er i i it 's the peasants who 've moved to the left of the Party , you 're right , that they are inappropriate to this very moderate policy of rent reduction erm a tax on collaborators land is being redistributed and is n't saying right we , i i in the same way that , that Mao was identifying the problem in in , either you , you follow the masses or you , you lead them but , but thereof we are behind them and a sense the Party has got ta recognize that , it 's got ta catch up with the masses and is n't that first paragraph saying look this is the way you should be going , that there are peasants who are redistributing the land and land reform is in effect taking place and that 's what we want to see ? |
| 7 | And there 's plenty of time because the moment they return they 'll all line up at the toilets . ’ |
| 8 | But do n't hang up on the shares because I reckon they could hit Pounds 4 by Christmas . |
| 9 | Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers . |
| 10 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 11 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 12 | Now it would be a question of building up contacts again , putting up a case which would percolate up through the echelons of power , hopefully gathering momentum and authenticity as it did so . |
| 13 | It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form . |
| 14 | Although it does not show up in the analyses , content surely also became more international , in source of origin , if not always in substance . |
| 15 | But the NAIRU is indeed likely to be lower these days — partly because the labour market works better , and partly because some of those out of work will not show up in the figures . |
| 16 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 17 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 18 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 19 | But how does the cake divide up for the punters ? |
| 20 | Motoring : Can R-R keep up with the times ? |
| 21 | Then suddenly , when Manson was in the headlines , as popular shows do , they said , we 've got ta keep up with the times and Hawaii Five-O went super psychedelic . |
| 22 | I do n't keep up with the names any more . ’ |
| 23 | Ten millennia of history will have been sacrificed to a crop of little taste and to gardeners who must keep up with the Joneses . |
| 24 | This is because poorer families who see the superior goods being consumed by their richer neighbours will attempt to ‘ keep up with the Joneses ’ and so spend a large fraction of their incomes . |
| 25 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 26 | I could not keep up with the demands of trying to keep everyone happy , and in desperation to make sure I keep my looks , I gave up eating , ’ she is alleged to have said . |
| 27 | There are several costs involved in remortgaging which you should weigh up against the savings you will be making . |
| 28 | If it is stimulated every time we sit down then tremendous tensions will build up over the years ; these will give rise to neck and back problems , and will also be responsible for many headaches and migraines . |
| 29 | Last summer we initiated the loan exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of the finest private German collection of Romantic and Nazarene Drawings which we advised and helped build up over the years , having bought for the collection on commission here at the London auctions major drawings like Koch 's ‘ The Schmadribachfall ’ , and Overbeck 's important preparatory study for his fresco at the Villa Massimo in Rome . |
| 30 | Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured . |