Example sentences of "always [verb] up [prep] the " 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 | Together they walked across the carpet ; a splendid Second Empire Aubusson which was always rolled up for the parties . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
6 | We can always finish up at the Boar if things do n't improve . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I 'm always waking up in the night . |
11 | 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 ! |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Message-sending and letter-writing went on , and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station . |
15 | we were always brought up in the country , you know |
16 | They always turn up in the nets ! |
17 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
18 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
19 | ‘ He used to grumble about him , but it would always end up with the same old story . ’ |
20 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
21 | all the annoying Germany always pops up at the wrong , the wrong most inopportune time . |
22 | If your teenagers are always queuing up outside the bathroom , it might be a good idea to think about installing washbasins in their bedrooms . |
23 | He always comes up with the goods on the day . ’ |