Example sentences of "up [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Gray grew up singing in the gospel choir at the local church . |
2 | I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night . |
3 | She ended up eating from the cat 's bowl . |
4 | EXCITING theme days have been arranged to spice up eating in the Barlaston canteen . |
5 | However , from the 1990 White Paper ( Cm 1021 , 1990 ) the Treasury gave up including in the total of planned public expenditure that part of local authority expenditure which is locally financed through local taxes and charges . |
6 | And if you want to wear make up then of course , make up goes over the top of your moisturizer . |
7 | I pulled my boat near to the ship , then stood up to see through the cabin window . |
8 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
9 | Prices for CA-Unicenter start from $25,000 up depending on the number of modules required . |
10 | Prices for CA-Unicenter start from $25,000 up depending on the number of modules required . |
11 | No drive , no ambition ; the team was just turning up to go through the motions ; and behind the scenes , lots of devious insider stuff . ’ |
12 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
13 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
14 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
15 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
16 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
17 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
18 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
19 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
20 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
21 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
22 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
23 | I asked as I stood up to go to the bar . |
24 | This was the origin of the myth that workers had to put their hands up to go to the lavatory . |
25 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
26 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
27 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
28 | PERHAPS THIS WILL TIGHTEN IT UP Make like a cockroach , the manual said . |
29 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
30 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |