Example sentences of "want [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
| 2 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 3 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 4 | As er as you can imagine , it 's a very difficult task , nobody wants to go up in the region , it has malaria , it 's dangerous , it 's it Transportation is difficult . |
| 5 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 6 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 7 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 8 | Finally , whatever else you do , if you want to keep up with the very latest versions of software , it 's pointless pirating . |
| 9 | ‘ If I were you , James , I would n't call these people niggers — unless , of course , you want to end up in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Unless you want to end up in the Mediterranean . ’ |
| 11 | Well not unless you want to get up in the morning and have a bath Jonathan , it 's up to you . |
| 12 | The German Greens want to link up with the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) for the next federal elections , due in 1994 . |
| 13 | Does he further agree that the Labour party wants to sign up to the social chapter only in order to regain its power by having beer and sandwiches at No. 10 ? |
| 14 | no , if they 're , if they 're , if they 're not doing it , you know , the way The Body Shop did it , probably wo n't come to anything , mm , right , erm , are there any other matters arising , people want to bring up from the minutes ? no . |
| 15 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 16 | I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it . |
| 17 | She had n't wanted to come up into the cab . |
| 18 | We do n't want to end up in the beer tent at three o'clock ’ — DICK BEST ( England coach ) about the Selkirk Sevens , where his seven lost in the quarter-finals to Gala . |
| 19 | I know how good you are at hiding away inside it when you do n't want to face up to the real world . |
| 20 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 22 | I wanted to go up to the Feldwebel and shake his hand . |
| 23 | She decided to go back to work — but first wanted to catch up on the qualifications she 'd missed out on . |
| 24 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 25 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 26 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 27 | When that final whistle went I just wanted to throw up in the sponge bag . |