Example sentences of "up [coord] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 2 | She had intensive physiotherapy treatment every day on a one-to-one basis , and gradually recovered her balance , so that she could stand up and walk with some help . |
| 3 | It is therefore unwise to allow grass to grow up and mature in late summer . |
| 4 | The experimenter instructed each child to pick up and talk about one toy and then applied a mild ‘ punishment ’ if he or she chose the more attractive of the pair . |
| 5 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 6 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 7 | Over the years , Midland has helped thousands of businesses to start up and grow into thriving enterprises . |
| 8 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 9 | ‘ I honestly do n't believe any mother would get up and go like that . |
| 10 | After lights-out we 'd all get up and play with this planchette thing . |
| 11 | The task of parents and teachers was to supply books and information , to provide sympathy and encouragement , sometimes to sum up and enlarge on particular questions . |
| 12 | It is the only way the women of West Belfast are able to actually able to take on further education and if you ca n't stand up and fight for that then West Belfast is not working . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh do shut up and look at these maps with me . |
| 14 | And erm the I , I ca n't remember er oh I think most of the work up there that I was on , we were doing different jobs in the mill , like er when very too when the mills were closed at the holidays , we , we used to go up and work in some of the mills . |
| 15 | If one is still searching for ways to explain this absence , believing with most ethologists , socio-biologists , and even some social anthropologists that aggression is part of human nature , then the obvious place to look is for some form of ritual as catharsis , or try to identify some other culturally constructed behaviour pattern which allows the individual Chewong to shed negatively valued arousal states , like anger , which according to such theories would build up and erupt in uncontrolled violent behaviour . |
| 16 | This magnet for unwanted paper will fill up and overflow with monotonous regularity and should be abolished . |