Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's taking me to the pin of my collar to keep up in the matter of sheer technical knowledge . |
| 2 | ‘ Several of my friends went up yesterday , and were expecting to spearhead a big breakthrough . ’ |
| 3 | Can the price of my holiday go up ? |
| 4 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 5 | But her assessment of my ability to stand up and shout in a crisis is pretty much a front . |
| 6 | Then it was on to my bike and off to spend the rest of my day banged up with a bunch of sullen , spoilt brats in order to make Clive Phillips even richer than he already was . |
| 7 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 8 | And when I think of my daughters growing up in that atmosphere , in that society , I feel I must try to avoid it if in any way I can . |
| 9 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 10 | The red of my anger bubbled up like the rosy orange juice squeezed by the vendors ' machines in the main street in our village . |
| 11 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |
| 12 | Anyway , I got one of my lads to go up and see Harry Short . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and re-organise as best I can . |
| 14 | ‘ I see it as part of my job to patch up squads and to re-organise as best I can . |
| 15 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 16 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 17 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 18 | BNFL News editor said : ‘ The dispensers will be placed so that no one will have to go out of their way to pick up a copy and they will be topped up regularly . |
| 19 | Old-fashioned MPs , unlike the new generation who happily turn up at the annual conference , went out of their way to dream up family illnesses , unavoidable business meetings or urgent missions to Kurdistan to avoid these gatherings . |
| 20 | Children were then able to sit in front of their range dressed up in old fashioned costume and role-play . |
| 21 | Delighted to be helpful , the white cells rub their genes together in glee , and for the rest of their lives curl up in their DNA sleeping bags . |
| 22 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 23 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 24 | A draught whistled through the jeep and all three men had the collars of their mackintoshes turned up . |
| 25 | He said that Lubavitch offered counselling for parents distressed by the prospect of their children throwing up a lucrative career for a life of prayer . |
| 26 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 27 | In this post-welfare state , travellers are reminded of their duty to give up their seat to old ladies by a designated seat , post offices can not trust the customers to queue so they erect mazes through which one must wind before being served . |
| 28 | As the profits of the great corporations grew , so the value of their shares went up , with more people competing to buy them . |
| 29 | Even though there were some special local problems to take into account , to a large extent the regime at Feltham , where teenagers spent most of their time locked up in their cells , was victim to the malaise endemic to the prison system as a whole . |
| 30 | East European military attaches and trade missions spend much of their time buying up every sort of book and technical journal and visiting every trade fair around Europe and America . |