Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering . |
| 2 | Q THIS year some of the buds on my clematis , Comtesse de Bouchard , have either dried up or produced very small flowers . |
| 3 | They seem to take the level from the amps without breaking up or sounding too middley . |
| 4 | By marginal he means that he does n't know whether it will clear up or become irretrievably hopeless . |
| 5 | When Tamar began to tell her father and George about the children , however , her mother-in-law brightened up and looked quite animated . |
| 6 | He got up and looked very hard at me . |
| 7 | Once in one of these classes one year I had a Jewish student got up and got very upset during such a class as this and stomped out and then slammed the door er which I was rather sorry about because erm I think he was being a little bit erm too sensitive because the person who was giving the paper said anything anyway erm , but warrant that , but he was just offended of the idea that anybody could suggest that Moses was n't Jewish , and of course |
| 8 | The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy , I was happy to see . |
| 9 | Next , the old gentleman got up and said more nice things about them . |
| 10 | Houses had to be boarded up and rendered both impenetrable and inaccessible as soon as the inhabitants moved out , so that squatters and wreckers could not move in . |
| 11 | It 's a long pull up this hill , I 'm not going to run up and drop down dead . |
| 12 | His pick up and throw too good for Salim Malik . |
| 13 | So I mean is certainly makes sense on the background and very calmly by er Mr saying very positive so I ca n't hold my hand up and pick out particular in which they , some of them er never change opposition District Council that their negative response if you like but there were , there were some positive responses but only I have to say this for something like four er proposed paper and one of those in which er lots of in which relevance and er businesses in the area could have er the thing that er response was er this this partic particular phrase would seem to be saying trouble erm er identified . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , he doubled up and went quite green . |
| 15 | Clifford told police : ‘ I picked the gun up and went totally berserk and shot him . ’ |
| 16 | I come here fed up and end up happy . |
| 17 | The road could be closed off and the beach opened up and made more accessible . |
| 18 | ‘ That expectation makes me freeze up and feel very shy and nervous , or else it makes my try too hard and I just end up feeling awkward . |
| 19 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 20 | Once it 's up and running in early 1997 it 'll bring around another fifty jobs to the area . |
| 21 | Some people freeze up and look completely false . |
| 22 | People dress up and look very smart |
| 23 | I was fascinated to see a friend train her horses so that she could pick up and clean out front and hind feet from the same side , working in order of near fore , off fore , near hind , off hind . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |
| 25 | I never know when anybody is , I know what year they were born , I have to count it up and see how old |
| 26 | The new law permitted foreign investors to establish equity and contractual joint ventures within the country , and to set up and operate wholly foreign-owned enterprises in special economic zones . |
| 27 | She resists being fed because she is afraid that she will swell up and become too big for her coffin . |
| 28 | Eventually a group will react against the chaotic stage by tightening up and becoming more formal . |
| 29 | ‘ Chayzuz , Gould , you take a hard line , man , so ye dae , ’ I say , trying to lighten things up but sounding pretty pathetic even to myself . |