Example sentences of "up [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt like Checkpoint Charlie , but in fact no one tried to stop you except the alkies lurching up off their piss-stained benches with some story about needing the bus fare back home to Sheffield . |
| 2 | The welfare state therefore acts as a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it difficult for them to move up through their own efforts . |
| 3 | Psychologists believe a new-born infant learns to combine what it picks up through its various senses as it lies wriggling in its pram . |
| 4 | An urgent giggle worked its way up through my sphincter muscles and caught in my throat . |
| 5 | The Georgian side is trying to smear the Russian armed forces to make up for its own errors , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Women can form a communal bond quickly , but may be reluctant to stand up for their personal views . |
| 7 | Yet it may be bad for other firms , even sound ones , since lenders will become increasingly wary , and may charge higher interest rates overall to make up for their higher risks . |
| 8 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 9 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 10 | Taken to extremes , it will cause the person who feels inadequate to become a workaholic , compelling him to take on more and more in order to make up for his own shortcomings . |
| 11 | Such remarks made up for our embarrassing waits . |
| 12 | In dealings with other people a balance needs to be struck , therefore , between standing up for your own rights whilst respecting other people 's . |
| 13 | Your chances of getting what you want out of life improve greatly when you let others know what you want and stand up for your own rights and needs . |
| 14 | Fans can see it on TV three times a day and are holding parties dressed up as their favourite characters . |
| 15 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 16 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 17 | A notorious critic of Hollywood , he justified taking the job by declaring he would break the stranglehold of the agents , who tied the studios up with pre-wrapped packages made up of their own clients : stars , writers and directors . |
| 18 | State governments will continue to have their own radio stations — that much is guaranteed by the constitution — but in 1981 the FRCN was authorized to draw up plans for the setting up of its own stations in every state . |
| 19 | It may be thought that this was a remarkably small price to pay for the opening up of our democratic processes to the public . |
| 20 | The Arab masses , indignant at the western humiliation of Saddam Hussein , were expected to rise up against their pro-western leaders . |
| 21 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 22 | Where this model comes up against its own limitations is in explaining ‘ popular ’ or working-class racism . |
| 23 | They come up against our distinctive types of personal defence and weakness . |
| 24 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 25 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 26 | Our large corporate donors are unable to come up with their usual contributions . |
| 27 | She put up with their pushful ways , |
| 28 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
| 29 | These tend to pop out of the oblong types of pods and may not line up with their positive contacts properly . |
| 30 | And they 're real dangerous too — they might jump onto the pavement and swallow me up with their big eyes . |