Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [vb base] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you ca n't make it to the Manor do n't forget to switch on and cheer the Central Live match this sunday afternoon … what else is going on … headlines in action round up |
| 2 | Further deployments ( with American crews ) were not ruled out — though Washington did not in practice take up this option . |
| 3 | There is no reason to believe that , should the demand for labour in industry pick up again , the exodus of young workers from agriculture will not be renewed . |
| 4 | Perhaps it did not in truth add up to very much . |
| 5 | Some varieties still in selection have up to 50% of their florets still open . |
| 6 | Higher rates of discount on bills would in turn drive up interest rates on other types of borrowing and lending that compete with bills ( e.g. short-term bank loans ) . |
| 7 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 8 | It is a daily experience in the lives of most women , who in turn make up statistically the greater part of the population . |
| 9 | Fourth , it stipulated that once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown " direct and free " elections would be held to a constituent council , which would in turn draw up a new constitution . |
| 10 | If we can now persuade more birds to come and perch on top of the first lot we can in principle build up the wire to any thickness we choose . |
| 11 | Finding the point is not easy , and the gully walls are vertical elsewhere , so if in doubt continue up and back to the source of the gullies . |
| 12 | The room can , in fact hold up to 140 of them . |
| 13 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
| 14 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 15 | Two other oddities are worth noting : first , the list does not confine itself to words of ‘ request ’ , but includes imperative words such as impero ( evidently a doubtful case ) as well as mando , which is placed in the ‘ normal ’ category , and does in fact turn up in several other texts ; second , relinquo and commendo are excluded : why ? |
| 16 | The traditional thirteen pièces in fact add up to one litre short of the mathematically equated 2,666 litres but this appears to have been overlooked . |
| 17 | You c You can er you can in fact have up to er you can find in you ex in your will as many people as you like but no more than four executors can prove at any one time . |
| 18 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |