Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll divide it up between three of us . |
| 2 | I climbed up through one of the thirteen gates and clambered over the piles of collapsed masonry blocking the way to the top of the citadel . |
| 3 | The Girls black up for one of their routines |
| 4 | Hundreds of the fittest and fastest athletes tuned up for one of the most gruelling events on the sporting calander . |
| 5 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 6 | I must save up for all of him . |
| 7 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 8 | We , as professionals , need to stand up for that in which we believe . |
| 9 | Progression of the deformity is unpredictable in a given patient , but follow up for five to 10 years has shown worsening of the instability in 16% to 41% of the patients . |
| 10 | At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months , Palladium officials said . |
| 11 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 12 | Added up for each of our 800,000 sows , this would take the British herd to the moon and back 30 times . |
| 13 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 14 | Again , warm up for 20 to 25 minutes , do your repeats and warm down for 20 to 25 minutes . |
| 15 | This approach may lack an academic master work expounding and defending it , but it more than makes up for this with populist political appeal . |
| 16 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 17 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 18 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 19 | Although individually insignificant , ants make up for this in sheer numbers and total biomass ; they are among the dominant extant organisms on Earth . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , there have been no social events this year hopefully we can make up for this in nineteen ninety four . |
| 21 | This makes up for some of the failings of the pancreas , but it leaves the diabetics reliant on an insulin supply , and unable to fine-tune the level of insulin in the way that a healthy pancreas would . |
| 22 | THE game could soon be up for some of the Beeb 's quiz shows . |
| 23 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 24 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 25 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
| 26 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 27 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 28 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 29 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 30 | You do n't show up for any of them . ’ |