Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 2 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 3 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 4 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 5 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 6 | WFTU split under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949 , when the British TUC and the CIO from the United States ( followed by the AFL ) set up in opposition the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) . |
| 7 | State subsidy amounted to almost £1.1bn in the 12 months to 31 March , up from £700m the previous year . |
| 8 | Pre-tax profits for the year to December 31 were up from £100.6m the previous year despite dramatically increased loss provisions of £47.6m , compared with £9.4m last time . |
| 9 | John Morrison , the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , rang me up from Islay the next morning . |
| 10 | According to Communications Trends , a market-research firm , Ziff held 37% of the American market for computer magazines in 1990 , up from 34% the previous year . |
| 11 | At Longman , the operating margin was 13% , which would mean sales of around £181 — up from £160m the previous year . |
| 12 | In February 69% of Britons told pollsters they were satisfied ‘ with the way the American government is handling the situation in the Gulf ’ — up from 49% the previous month . |
| 13 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 14 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 15 | Erm what we were doing was filling in these these postcards asking MPs to turn up on February the fourth to support the energy conservation bill when it has its er second reading in Parliament . |
| 16 | However , any further attempts at a more comprehensive codification to bring up to date the humanitarian controls of war were frozen with the onset of the Cold War . |
| 17 | A pound a ticket , and you could go , there were three routes you could go and any time up to March the twenty eighth |
| 18 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 19 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 20 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 21 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 22 | The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans . |