Example sentences of "up [prep] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 2 | And if the Newquay lot turn up round here we have to really run 'em down . ’ |
| 3 | When the jet came up from nowhere it left a space devoid of air and we just dropped into it . ’ |
| 4 | However , there are ways of coming up to here we 've got a lot of co-operation a lot of trust and here you get what 's called synergies , new names , have you heard that name before synergy , synergy ? |
| 5 | Then you bring your ladder that you 've brought with you for the job and you put it up leaning on this windowsill , so that essentially if that 's the windowsill the end of that table there , it 's up to here you see with the top of the ladder just above the windowsill . |
| 6 | Supposedly there was a Hell Fire Club in London in 1934 , but what they were getting up to no one knows . ’ |
| 7 | You needed sunglasses to go in it , erm oh you did n't really actually it looked , it looked alright but it was very modern , my mum and dad did n't think it was up to much you know we thought it was great . |
| 8 | The real object of his 15 was to provide a chopping block for the College 15 , who trained incessantly for their annual fixtures with Woolwich and Sandhurst , whom up to then they had never beaten , Lowe 's side never beat the cadets , but at least provided reasonable opposition and enjoyed a form of coaching from Wg Cdr Lowe . |
| 9 | But up to then it had been a right mild winter . |
| 10 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 11 | Up to then he had been supported by the British Council , who now passed the buck to Bloomsbury House . |
| 12 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 13 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 14 | Up to then there had been little social division in towns and houses were crowded in on themselves in a formless way . |
| 15 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 16 | Up to then I thought he had dark hair . |
| 17 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 18 | Now , up to now we 've met , it 's probably a step forward but it will need careful monitoring because there is utter confusion as far as I 'm concerned with , I do n't know whether Apex is a sister union with us or a section and I do n't think Apex know the difference themselves . |
| 19 | You see , up to now we 've been able to keep it fairly tight . |
| 20 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
| 21 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 22 | For example , an article in Danas ( 6 January 1987 ) stated : ‘ Up to now we have produced one quality of product for the home market , another for Western markets , and a third quality for the East . ’ |
| 23 | Up to now we have ignored the specific role of fixed capital ; this we shall now rectify . |
| 24 | ‘ Up to now we have maintained our margins while others have cut prices . |
| 25 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 26 | Up to now we have not enquired into the question of how the current arose . |
| 27 | Up to now they had kept a low profile , but they were becoming more militant . |
| 28 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 29 | Up to now there have been four methods of regulating supply and demand , all equally iniquitous . |
| 30 | Researchers are trying to develop ways of recognising domesticated pulses , eg rye , peas and chickpeas , which were very important in ancient nutrition , but up to now there has been no technique that readily identifies them . |