Example sentences of "up [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I would wake up weeping with frustration and despair . |
| 2 | She managed to contact him in Florida , as the clearing up got under way . |
| 3 | We then end up eating for entertainment , rather than nourishment . |
| 4 | Gazzer hauled himself up to sit on top of the pill-box . |
| 5 | Thus , internally generated ideas which would otherwise cause the subject to wake up blushing with shame or racked with guilt are transformed by the dreamwork into a symbolic code . |
| 6 | little local people , part time housewifes earn a bit extra to pay their mortgage or save up to go on holiday |
| 7 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 8 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 9 | Might have been queuing up for the keep-fit actually , yes I was , I was queuing up to go to keep-fit and there was a woman in the queue saying that about so and so and so , ooh he 's moving she said ! |
| 10 | There was one time she was all dressed up to go to town and I did n't know her because she had a hat on . |
| 11 | No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter . |
| 12 | That 's it , press when it comes up connect to network press return , we must get beyond connect to network . |
| 13 | These high trees stand out against an evening sky with violet stripes on a yellow ground , which higher up turns into pink , into green . |
| 14 | Collagenases are products of fibroblasts and are up regulated in tumour stromal cells . |
| 15 | The twelve lucky ones jumped up laughing with relief and went wild with joy , the others shouted angrily , stamping their feet and banging the lids of their desks . |
| 16 | It was lucky that the twenty-seven-car pile up occurred within walking distance of one of those vast motorway service areas . |
| 17 | As a vine will generally withstand a temperature as low as -5°C water-spraying systems are set up to come into operation as soon as the temperature drops to 1°C . |
| 18 | The biggest difference in contrast on my equalization argument is between the City and between the Vale , and so whilst again it might be controversial , there is a logic , with our backs to the wall admittedly , of saying right well we 'll close this home in order to protect money that we 've got lined up to come on stream next year . |
| 19 | Even today excavation reports treat artefacts as separate entities neatly divided up according to material from which they were made , i.e. gold , silver , lead , bronze , tin , iron , ivory , bone , jet , shale , stone , then followed by coins , samian decorated , samian plain , samian stamps , amphora stamps , mortaria stamps and coarse wares . |
| 20 | Alternatively , where such territories were too small and scattered , as in many colonised archipelagos , they were combined or broken up according to convenience or local politics . |
| 21 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the report says that only 12%–15% of smoking women give up smoking during pregnancy . |
| 23 | As she re-owned these characteristics in herself , she gave up smoking with ease . |
| 24 | Are you prepared to give up smoking for instance , or to cut down on the amount of caffeine , alcohol , sugar and junk-food you may consume ? |
| 25 | The Lithuanian Prime Minister , Jurgis Bredekis , has persuaded three of his fellow Cabinet ministers to give up smoking as part of his drive to head the world 's first " tobacco-free government " . |
| 26 | ‘ I grew up listening to jazz , ’ explains Meier , ‘ because the Swiss charts were always full of silly songs . ’ |
| 27 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 28 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 29 | The Swedish connection , working mainly through Hermann Goering still , set up meeting after meeting , held session after session , made proposals by the score . |
| 30 | But I still retain sympathy for the misguided foreign tourists who read about its properties as a ‘ gateway to the beautiful western Highlands ’ and end up wandering in dismay down streets that make the Bronx look like Disneyland . |