Example sentences of "up [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many fans are turning up to see Premier side CHAMDEN CITY these days that the club has been forced to buy the neighbouring supermarket . |
| 2 | Kelly looked up to see Heraldic bolting towards the start with Damien clinging vainly upside down round his neck . |
| 3 | There was naked bathing on a hot summer 's night after a stirring performance , there were wondering Welsh friends and neighbours up to see this phenomenon and afraid that his Welshness might be too loud : ‘ The English are afraid of us , ’ said Burton and brawled , now and then , to prove it . |
| 4 | If Thatcher ends up opposing that sort of modernisation of institutions , then she will deserve to be denounced as simply reactionary and perverse . |
| 5 | In particular , women who found themselves without a source of male economic support-widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers — tended to end up drawing poor relief . |
| 6 | They may also be set up to carry international traffic , or for the use of particular organisations . |
| 7 | The original bronze which goes with them is an action-figure : an over life-size bearded god , naked , striding , left arm straight out in front , right back and up to hurl some weapon ( fig. 79 ) . |
| 8 | Typically we do n't we implement it in software and even in software it 's very quick because computers are ideally set up to implement these sort of systems . |
| 9 | In June he was appointed chair of the Central Qualification Commission set up to scrutinize former security service personnel recruited to such bodies as the State Protection Office and the police . |
| 10 | ECOLOGICAL Development , an organisation set up to promote environmentally-friendly housing , are looking for anyone with a desire to build their own home in a ‘ Green Village ’ . |
| 11 | The Foundation for Organic Agriculture ( FOA ) has been set up to promote organic farming in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 12 | You 'll have a later report er , from the social care enterprise agency , which we 've set up to stimulate independent domiciliary care . |
| 13 | So if a child gets spoken to in a fairly direct way by imagine a female child by her father and the same female child gets spoken to in a not so direct way be her mother , then even of this The child is likely to both version , she 'll grow up using female variety because she 's she can affiliate herself with her mother and I mean she knows that is the variety she 's expected to use . |
| 14 | All sorts of different tunings suddenly became really easy for me and we wound up using that guitar for Friends , The Extremist , War and Motorcycle Driver . ’ |
| 15 | Cats usually spray areas they 've sprayed before , so clean up using biological washing powder followed by alcohol . |
| 16 | Today 's conference , organised by the Scottish Office , has been set up to encourage informed debate about the whole issue of the hopelessly ill . |
| 17 | On top of this , food eaten eight miles up needs extra seasoning because at altitude taste buds are only 70 per cent efficient . |
| 18 | Well I woke myself up snoring last night . |
| 19 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 20 | The conditions in the warehouse , if the foregoing time and motion performance is achieved , would be such as to permit ready access by fire fighting personnel for mopping up smouldering residual combustion . |
| 21 | The conference was set up to attract more business to north Oxfordshire , where along of the flanks of the M40 empty office space is part of the landscape . |
| 22 | Both of us nearly ended up blasting each other but came to a reasonable compromise instead — which is the true story of our lives . |
| 23 | A network of eight regional sites has been set up to provide long term monitoring of environmental change and its impact on the ecology of the UK . |
| 24 | The Institute is so concerned about the smaller firms that are giving up training chartered accountant students that it has set up two working parties to explore ways to make the training system more attractive . |
| 25 | ‘ … he would n't mind betting they 'd queue up to drink plain tap water out of her Wellington boots and count themselves blasted lucky to have the chance . |
| 26 | Jeanne Calment , deaf , almost blind and confined to a wheelchair , gave up smoking last year and no longer drinks her daily glass of port . |
| 27 | I am aware that reducing costs , particularly in the area of construction and materials , has become a key goal throughout the organisation and I support the various task forces which have been set up to explore this aspect of our business . |
| 28 | Little things left to build up cause long-term resentment , and this is very difficult to disperse once it is established . |
| 29 | ORACLE AND SUN TEAM UP TO TACKLE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY |
| 30 | ‘ Most marriages I 've observed have n't turned out to be lifelong affairs , and those that do all too frequently end up causing more misery than separation or divorce . ’ |