Example sentences of "up [prep] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to providing a regular preventative maintenance service they are also well set up for dealing with emergency work on a 24 hour basis . |
| 2 | A false report of theft could be made to a next-door neighbour , perhaps to cover up for dealing with property wrongfully , and then the neighbour could make a genuine report to the police about the false theft , thereby causing police time to be wasted . |
| 3 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 4 | When I think about it they did ha erm , but I 'm fed up with talking about school ! |
| 5 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |
| 6 | The London Philharmonic could , for instance , perform at the Festival Hall without the boring necessity of tuning up before going on stage . |
| 7 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 8 | On Oct. 9 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka presented to the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) the socio-economic programme which her government had drawn up since coming to office in July [ see p. 39016-17 ] . |
| 9 | The Anglican Information Office , a corporate member of WACC , has produced this new publication to follow up on Getting into Print which it published in 1975 . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't necessarily add up to going to bed . ’ |
| 11 | It is a powerful text based database , primarily set up by typing in field names and parameters . |
| 12 | Additions to a file set up by loading in access frequency order will have a disproportionate effect on file access time ; this is because they will be of at least average activity and often more , as new records tend to be very active , but are loaded into a densely packed file . |
| 13 | Inevitably one night she ended up by going to bed with him . |