Example sentences of "up [prep] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They require regular trimming to keep the growth thick at the butt ( how often one sees huge , bushy hedges with little greenery and gaping holes near the ground ) and should be allowed to grow up for relaying every ten to fifteen years . |
| 2 | Because he 's European , he 's bald and the opposite of everything Kirk was and he 's always so messed up about making the right decision … ’ |
| 3 | Well I do n't believe this sort of thing goes on and suggest that Jon Ronson made it all up after reading a dodgy magazine . |
| 4 | I came to cheer myself up after finding the cold store broken into . |
| 5 | Police are particularly anxious to hear from a man who suddenly hung up after making an anonymous call to the incident room in January . |
| 6 | Tobacco and insurance giant BAT Industries moved up after signing a joint venture agreement to take over a cigarette manufacturing business in the Ukraine . |
| 7 | Since social systems , in this instance like physical systems , tend towards inertia , the challenge to innovation is bound up with reversing the usual trend . |
| 8 | I get fed up with cooking the same old thing — I like it if I can experiment . |
| 9 | Someone tell him about it I 'm fucking getting fed up with telling every single person |
| 10 | The reformist politician has already been forced to make compromises in the new party programme he has drafted , and has even had to put up with seeing the dreaded word ‘ Marxism ’ inserted into the version he will be proposing to the delegates today . |
| 11 | Do you want to move into the hospital altogether , and get me to put up with losing the little of your company I do get ? |
| 12 | Marx 's and Engels 's work on pre-capitalist systems is largely taken up with showing the indissoluble link between the type of property and the type of relations of production . |
| 13 | The attempt to see the Christian message in the secular world ended up in seeing the secular world in the Christian message and then in confusing the two . |
| 14 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 15 | The total energy which has to be used up in producing a real fracture surface is therefore greater than G and is known as the ‘ work of fracture ’ , W , such that , Although W is always considerably bigger than G , its actual magnitude varies very greatly between different materials . |
| 16 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 17 | Lindsey straightened up from writing a brief note , kneading the muscles at the back of her neck in an attempt to relieve some of the tension . |
| 18 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 19 | ‘ I used to just swot up on learning the key words and churning them out computer fashion , but now I am more interested in what they mean . |
| 20 | There are occasions when the relationship between Voight 's big , blond , likeable dimwit , ludicrously decked out in cowboy gear , and Dustin 's small , greasy-haired , pallid , crippled down-and-outer is touchingly and humorously portrayed , particularly the moment when Buck 's face lights up on seeing an unshaven Ratso eating alone in a diner . |
| 21 | How long did it take you to work up to getting a full man 's wage ? |
| 22 | But , in the days of computer simulations , it surely makes little sense to crank the whole military-industrial complex up to producing a great fleet of YF-22s . |
| 23 | The ‘ Cornish Times ’ reported that ‘ the twin towns of East and West Looe gave themselves up to celebrating the auspicious event with popular rejoicing . |
| 24 | ( It is easier to do so if you have friends who can own up to feeling the same way . ) |
| 25 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 26 | Orc Boyz are powerful enough to be considered core units but it is doubly important to beef them up by including a powerful character . |
| 27 | The volcano ended up by destroying the entire island . |
| 28 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 29 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 30 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |