Example sentences of "always [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction . |
| 2 | It was a lot of work for one man , he told me , which is why the name Hugh Cruttwell always turns up on the credits of his movies . |
| 3 | Questions like : ‘ Mummy , who was Immanuel Kant ? ’ or , ‘ Daddy , what were Adam Smith 's economic theories ? ’ always crop up during a crisis in the kitchen . |
| 4 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
| 5 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 6 | In the Baghdad Times , the English-language newspaper , the Presidential Guard were always written up as an elite force . |
| 7 | I 've always grown up with the idea if I do a job , I 'll , I 'll do it properly or else I wo n't bother , I wo n't tackle it all . |
| 8 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 9 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 10 | We can always finish up at the Boar if things do n't improve . ’ |
| 11 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 12 | Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 14 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 15 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
| 16 | I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night ! |
| 17 | I always finished up as a bandit , or a pirate , I do n't know quite why . |
| 18 | Then I remembered you always get up in the morning before Aunt Emily , so I 'm sure you will find this before anyone else sees it ; and I want you to know that I am alive and well . |
| 19 | I , I am friendly with them you know I , I go every Wednesday there , for er , well when I can , every Wednesday because something , something always creeps up on a Wednesday to keep away from them , er , sort of for tea and then with |
| 20 | Angy always played up to a man … any man . |
| 21 | Instead of talking from the stalls to actors in front of one another , he would always shamble up onto the stage with his peculiar hedgehog gait and take them aside separately . |
| 22 | There were quite a few battles before Pearce got British Aerospace on the road to privatisation , particularly with civil servants and ‘ officials who were not really responsible , but tended to sit on the sidelines criticising and always coming up with a reason why you could n't do anything . ’ |
| 23 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
| 24 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 25 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
| 26 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 27 | They always turn up in the nets ! |
| 28 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 29 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 30 | I always end up with a dry throat in here with all this heat |