Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | A DOCTOR and a student will warm up for an Arctic adventure by spending tonight in a seafood freezer . |
| 3 | Look if I take my hair off I 'm gon na finish up with an old girl with a bloody Zimmer frame . |
| 4 | PSD itself will then provide up to an additional £8.50 per week towards excess travelling costs . |
| 5 | And as all sports are matched to your own ability , you can keep up with an old favourite or try your hand at something new . |
| 6 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 7 | For the rest , if it does blow up into an open accusation , he 'll have to come clean . |
| 8 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 9 | The initiator of change can not , in the face of reluctance or merely token activity , be confident that every participant will end up as an active and confident partner . |
| 10 | For iron it is about 1000 K. This is a plausible explanation of the Mercurian field , though it is not certain that a slowly cooling core would end up with an appreciable magnetic dipole moment . |
| 11 | Freeze-frame almost any moment in this visually striking piece and one would end up with an abstract and richly textured landscape evoking the bright southern light of Margarit 's native Spain . |
| 12 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 13 | Without the roots of extensive planning ‘ these developments did not add up to an articulate challenge to the restoration of bourgeois rule in Japan ’ ( Armstrong , Glynn and Harrison 1984 p.39 ) . |
| 14 | He has a useful pedigree in the Birmingham League , can come up with an awkward slanted delivery and hopes to be around at Edgbaston next season . |
| 15 | and you could actually come up with an equitable total in terms of |
| 16 | He 'll come up with an estimated erm an estimated price and er and do most of the Q S-ing in house . |
| 17 | Before this can be put into effect however , the Society must raise $110,000 just to keep its library open until 1 June , and must come up with an additional $2.5 million to cover a bare-boned operation from June 1993 to June 1994 . |
| 18 | Can we come up with an improved/new Forrester song ? |
| 19 | New York and Detroit will come up with an attractive separation package , you can be sure of that . |
| 20 | If you can come up with an interesting band ‘ logo ’ or visual image , that can be a cheap way of self-promotion on stickers and badges . |
| 21 | Runcom has probably made more original contributions to more branches of the subject than any other geophysicist ; but if history judges his work on that basis alone , it will come up with an incomplete assessment . |
| 22 | No foe should ever sneak up on an exhausted Marine slumbering during prolonged combat . |
| 23 | These ‘ Mietkaserne ’ ( literally ‘ rental barracks ’ ) , to avoid the slum problem of a London or central Berlin , would be four storeys high and would open up on an interior square that was green and ample enough to permit plenty of light and fresh air . |
| 24 | Do not turn up with an extra child to be fitted in to the same appointment . |
| 25 | ‘ It might pop up at an awkward moment , ’ he said , which was hardly any better . ’ |