Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 61 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 62 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 63 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 64 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 65 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 66 | Feasts are going to be cropping up from time to time as we move through the year , so it may be as well to explain that the word signifies , in Yorkshire , the yearly festival of the village or town . |
| 67 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 68 | However , business lunches may crop up from time to time — and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants . |
| 69 | They turn up from time to time . ’ |
| 70 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 71 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 72 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 73 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 74 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 75 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 76 | Your crystal grows visibly : it breaks up from time to time and the pieces also grow … |
| 77 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 78 | This sally produced a blustering but largely inarticulate monologue from which the words ‘ MP ’ , ‘ head of Scotland Yard ’ , ‘ no respect ’ , ‘ outrageous ’ , ‘ appalling ’ , ‘ risked my life in the service of my king ’ and ‘ do n't know what the world 's coming to ’ , cropped up from time to time . |
| 79 | I just wanted to take up the point that 's been raised again , and it keeps popping its its little head up from time to time , this issue of building rates . |
| 80 | ‘ It 's one of those old chestnuts that crops up from time to time , ’ he said . |
| 81 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 82 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 83 | He 's only been up since quarter to three |
| 84 | But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole . |
| 85 | Mary Poovey examines the questions at the heart of the debate : Is the woman in labour outside man 's intervention i.e. if God had cursed Eve with painful childbirth , is it up to man to lift that curse ? |
| 86 | It is up to man to look at the world and through his perceptions and his thinking to convert the world either into a form which can then be processed or into an idea . |
| 87 | It is up to government to finance and provide it — but as far from the DTI as possible . |
| 88 | that narrows the distance up to scum to 12 points again . |
| 89 | Officers were yesterday interviewing the woman , and Inspector Barry Jakeman appealed to anyone who was at Farley Mount in the hour up to midnight to contact police . |
| 90 | Because we offered our budget up to negotiation to both the political parties , over the last eight weeks . |