up1 adverb, preposition, adjectiveup2 nounup3 verb
upup1 /ʌp/ ●●● S1 W1 adverb, preposition, adjective 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- "Where is Alex?" "He's up in his room."
- Are you able to see up there or do you need a flashlight?
- Caroline looked up and laughed.
- Darryl climbed up onto the roof.
- Elaine brought up the issue of childcare.
- Everyone stood up for the national anthem.
- He came right up and asked my name.
- He was pointing his rifle straight up in the air.
- I found some old pictures of my mother up in the attic.
- I picked up as many of the beads as I could find.
- I walked up to the counter and demanded my money back.
- Larry's hair was sticking straight up.
- Let's cover up the machinery just in case it rains.
- Let's just add up these figures quickly.
- Make sure this side of the box is facing up.
- My cousins live up north.
- Put the picture higher up on the wall.
- The boy turned and stared up at her.
- The closet's completely filled up with all Mia's old clothes.
- The helicopter hovered up above us.
Longman Language Activatormoving up to a higher place
· The car went slowly up the hill.· Lee gets out of breath just going up the stairs.· There's a great view from the top - you should go up and have a look.up to/into/onto/over/at etc · The fire sent clouds of smoke up into the sky.· Don't let the cat jump up onto the table.· We made our way up to the top of the mountain.straight up · Serena was so scared she jumped straight up in the air.up and down · Pain was running up and down both his legs.
also upward American towards a higher position, especially towards the sky: · Alan grabbed hold of the ledge and began to climb upward.· A few snowflakes fell toward the ground, then blew upward with the next gust of wind.· The lighter material floats upwards, carrying heat to the surface of the liquid.
towards a higher position by means of a road or path that goes up a hill: · I don't like cycling uphill.· The children were running uphill towards the house.· Our guide led us uphill along a steep trail.
towards a higher floor in a building by means of stairs: · Lucy came rushing upstairs after her sister.· Don't go upstairs - Mom's still getting dressed.· Flora watched Mrs Brown staggering upstairs with a heavy tray.
if something moves higher and higher , it continues to move towards a higher position in the sky: · The moon rose higher and higher.· The kite went higher and higher into the sky.· I watched as the birds flew higher and higher, grew smaller, and then disappeared.
looking, facing, or pointing upwards also upward American · He held the palms of his hands upward as if he were asking forgiveness.· A copy of the book lay on the table, its cover facing upwards.· All eyes were turned upward toward the man standing on the ledge.
use this to say where someone or something is looking, facing, or pointing: · Caroline looked up and laughed.up at/into/from etc: · The boy turned and stared up at her.· The receptionist hardly looked up from her book when I came in the office.· We stood there for a moment, gazing up into the snow-covered branches of the tree.straight up: · He was pointing his rifle straight up in the air.
if someone or something is lying face-up , they are lying with their face pointing upwards: · Police found the body lying face-up in the hall.· He put all his cards face-up on the table.
to move upwards through the air · Mervyn had never invited her to go up in his little plane.· If you want to make the kite go up, pull the string hard, then release it slowly.
to move straight up into the air: · Hot air rises.rise in/into: · A stream of water rose into the air, arched smoothly, and fell back into the pool.rise up: · Clouds of smoke rose up into the air.
formal to move up through the air: · A huge flock of red-wing blackbirds ascended from their nests along the side of the road.· He leaned out of an upstairs window and felt a current of warm air ascending from the street.
if a bird or a plane climbs , it gradually goes higher up into the sky: · As the plane began to climb, Karen started to feel ill.· The geese climbed high above us and set off on their long journey south.
if an aircraft gains height , it gradually moves higher up into the sky: · Investigators are uncertain why the plane failed to gain height after takeoff.· Gliders use thermal up-currents to gain height.
to suddenly go up into the air very quickly: · Flames shot up into the air and clouds of smoke poured out of the windows.· I saw a spray of white water shoot up into the sky and knew that there were whales nearby.
to go quickly upwards to a great height in the air: soar upwards/up/above/into etc: · The ball soared high into the air.· The snow goose flew down low over the field and then soared back up gracefully.
when something moves upwards into the air · Gunmen started firing at the helicopter as it left the ground.· The plane had barely left the ground when it began to experience engine trouble.
if a plane or a bird takes off , it leaves the ground and start flying: · Some ducks took off and flew along the river.· We had to wait on the runway for a half an hour before we finally took off.take off from: · The president's plane took off from Andrews Air Force Base at 9:45 am.
if a space ship lifts off , it leaves the ground and starts its journey into space: · There was a burst of flame as the rocket lifted off into the sky.· Thousands of people had gathered at Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket lift off.
if a space ship blasts off , it leaves the ground with an explosion of fire and starts its journey into space: · The space shuttle is set to blast off on a nine-day mission tomorrow at 4:18 a.m.
to send a rocket up into the air or into space: launch a rocket/missile/satellite etc: · China is planning to launch a space rocket later this month.· On the first day of the war over 400 missiles were launched.
to move up a slope or upstairs · You have to go up two flights of stairs, and then it's the second door on your right.· Hundreds of people lined the street, cheering the runners as they went up the hill.
to go up a steep slope, especially with a lot of effort: · The old man slowly climbed up the stairs to his room.· We had to climb a pretty big hill to get to the temple.
formal to go up a slope, a ladder, or stairs: · He was turning to ascend the ladder to the engine room when the ship's fire alarm sounded.· Bianca walked regally across the hall and ascended the marble staircase.
when a road or path goes upwards · The road goes up from the beach into the forest.· I could see a tiny track going up ahead of us.
to go up steeply: · The road climbs steadily, reaching 6,000 feet after 18 miles.· The path climbs high into the hills above the village of Glenridding.
when the level of water goes up if the level of water rises , it goes up, especially in a way that causes danger, problems etc: · The level of the water in the lake was rising fast.· In 1956 the river rose to a height of more than 6 metres.· The waves rose higher and higher till the rocks behind them were hidden.· Floodwaters continue to rise as the rain continues to fall.
when the sun or moon comes up into the sky if the sun or the moon rises , it goes above the level of the horizon or it goes further up into the sky: · A full moon rose over the valley.· What time does the sun rise tomorrow morning?· The moon rises nearly an hour later each night.· By midday the sun had risen high in the sky and was burning down on us.
if the sun or the moon comes up , it moves above the level of the horizon: · The moon came up slowly over the pine trees.· The sun was coming up and you could just see the tops of the mountains.
to move a part of your body upwards · She raised her head and looked at him.· If you want to ask a question, please raise your hand first.· "Oh really?" Zack said, raising an eyebrow.
to raise part of your body such as your arm or your leg, especially carefully or with effort: · Her shoulder muscles had become so weak that she could not lift her arms.lift up something: · It took him a great deal of effort just to lift up his arm a few inches.lift something up: · OK, now lift your right leg up as far as it will go.
to raise your hand or arm: put up something: · I gasped and put up a hand to cover my mouth.· He swore at us and put up his fists as if he was going to punch one of us.put something up: · Rachel put both her hands up to shield her eyes from the sun.
to move up in a list · With this win Williams moves up to third place in the world rankings.move up something · FC Roma are slowly moving up the league table.
to gradually move up in a list or group of people, teams, records etc: · Hobson's novel has risen steadily up the bestseller list since it's release last August.rise to: · Borland rose to the top of the computer software industry by a mixture of innovation and good marketing.
to move up in a list of teams, records etc, especially a long way up the list: climb to: · Jennifer Lopez's new single has climbed to number two in the US charts.climb the table/charts etc: · Towards the end of the season Benfica suddenly climbed the league table and finished third.
to move up very quickly in a list of people, teams, records etc: shoot up in: · Since the debate Robertson has shot up in the polls.shoot up something: · The new detective series quickly shot up the TV ratings.
to be more than a particular number or amount · The annual revenue is more than $15 billion.· New Haven's school drop-out rate is more than double the statewide average.much/many more than · a young woman who didn't look to be much more than 20· Many cases still go undetected -- many more than are treated.
formal to be more than a number or amount, especially a fixed number or limit - used especially in official reports or documents: · Legal requirements state that working hours must not exceed 42 hours a week.· In the Far East, home computer ownership is expected to exceed that of the US and Europe combined.exceed something by something: · Births exceeded deaths by a ratio of 3 to 1.far exceed: · Metcalf has achieved 49 touchdowns, far exceeding even those of his famous father.
if one type of person or thing outnumbers another, there are more of the first type than of the second: · Women teachers outnumber their male colleagues by two to one. (=there are twice as many women)greatly/far outnumber: · a city where bicycles greatly outnumber cars
if profits, sales, income etc are up they are larger than at a time in the past: · Most retailers expect sales to be up slightly compared with last year.· The American Stock Exchange was up 0.6% at 551.63.be up by: · Support for the president was up by an astonishing 15% in the South. be 10%/12 points etc up: · Germany's steel output was 3% up at 11.7 million tons.
if a number or total passes an amount, especially one that you have been trying to reach, it is more than that amount and will probably continue to increase: · If he stays injury-free, Stumpel should pass his personal best of 76 points.pass the £100/1million etc mark: · Visits to our website passed the 100,000 mark in April.
until now until now - use this when you are talking about a situation that will continue or develop after this time: · There haven't been any problems so far.· This is the hottest day we've had so far this summer.· We've raised twelve thousand dollars so far, and we expect to reach our goal by the end of next week.
use this to say that a situation which started in the past continues to exist now, especially when this is surprising: · He's been studying French for five years, and still can't speak the language.· Are you still going out with that guy you met at Heather's party?
use this in questions or negative statements, to talk or ask about things that you expected to happen before now: · Has the new washing machine arrived yet?· I haven't been to the new exhibit yet, but I hope to this weekend.· "Have you finished your homework?" "Not yet."
use this about a situation which has existed until now, but which has started to change or will change in the future: · He hasn't gotten much time off from work up to now, so he's really looking forward to his vacation.· Until now, there has been no effective treatment for this disease.
from a time in the past until modern times: · These two companies have dominated the industry from the end of World War II until the present day.· The beauty of Yosemite has inspired artists from Bierstadt's time right up to the present day.
what you say to ask someone about a problem spoken say this when you are asking someone what is causing a problem, for example why they are upset, or why a machine will not work: · What's the matter? You look as if you've been crying.what's wrong/what's the matter with: · What's wrong with the TV?· What was the matter with Daniella yesterday?
spoken informal say this when you are asking someone if there is a problem that they want to talk about: · "Karen, can I talk to you for a minute?" "Sure, what's up?"what's up with somebody? (=say this when someone seems to have a problem): · What's up with Larry today?
spoken say this when you are asking why someone cannot do something or why something will not work: · "I can't finish the last question." "Why? What's the problem?"· What's the problem? Is there something I can do?what's the problem with: · "I can't get my computer to work." "What's the problem with it?"
especially American, spoken say this to ask someone if they are unhappy about something you just said or suggested - use this when you are annoyed and want to be slightly rude: · "Is he going to sleep in your room?" "I think so. Do you have a problem with that?"· "Are you all by yourself?" I said, "Yes." And I wanted to say "you got a problem with that?"
to be better again after an illness or injury if someone is better after an illness or injury, they have recovered, or they are in the process of recovering: · How are you? Are you better?· I'll just rest today, and, hopefully, I'll be better tomorrow.· I hope Robert's better by Saturday, because we need him for the team.
if someone is well , they are healthy again, and they no longer have an illness or injury: · As soon as you're well we'll go to Florida and have a few weeks in the sun.· They couldn't really make any firm plans until Luis was well again.
to be completely well again after an illness or injury: · We were relieved to find that Barnes was fully recovered and able to take part in the race.be fully recovered from: · Keep the patient still and quiet until he is fully recovered from the attack.
if someone is cured , they are completely better because their illness has been treated successfully: · She's still rather weak, but her bronchitis seems to be cured.be cured of: · It is only after two or three years that the doctors can say you are definitely cured of cancer.be completely cured: · He was always confident that he would be completely cured.
to be well again after an illness: · You've had a bad attack of malaria, but I think you're over it now.be over the worst: · Her temperature is going down again - she seems to be over the worst.
informal to be well again and able to live life as usual after being ill: · After a day or two in bed I'll be back on my feet again.· Wait till you're back on your feet before you start worrying about your exams.
to be out of bed and well enough to walk around again, after an illness or injury has forced you to stay in bed: · She's up and about now, and should be back at work in a day or two.· It's good to see you up and about again.
especially British to be well again after having been ill, so that you are now able to move around as usual, exercise etc: · Don't come back to work until you're completely fit.· He should be back at training next week if he's fit.be fit as a fiddle (=be extremely fit): · Don't worry - I'll be as fit as a fiddle again by next week.
when things are spread around in a messy way also till especially spoken if something happens until or till a time or event, it continues and then stops at that time or event. Till is only used in informal speech and writing: · My father worked as a teacher until 1989.· I'll be at home until 5:30, if you want to phone me.· Vicky polished the car until it shone.· David continued living at home until he was 26.· The library's only open till five on Saturdays.· Just wait till I've finished my coffee. Then we can go.
if something happens up until or up to a particular time, date etc, it happens continuously before that time but no longer happens after that time: · Up until the nineteenth century wood was commonly used for buildings.· She continued to write poetry, up to the day she died.· Things had been going very well up until then.right up until/to a time (=just before): · Right up until the last minute she had hoped that Peter would change his mind.
use this to say that something starts happening at one time and continues until another time: · We worked from seven in the morning until late at night.· Max edited the paper from 1950 until he retired in 1989.from May to September/from 9am to 5pm etc: · The hotel is only open during the main tourist season, from March to October.· Eisenhower was President from 1952 to 1956.
: May through September/Monday through Friday etc American starting in May and continuing until the end of September, starting on Monday and continuing until the end of Friday, etc: · The store is open Monday through Saturday.· Prices are generally lowest from January through March and highest June through August.
written starting on Monday and continuing until the end of Friday, starting at 6 o'clock and continuing until 8 o'clock - used on signs and notices: · Visit the exhibition of modern art, open every day, 9:30-6:00.· A special fishing licence is required for the season (May-September).
to get out of bed to get out of bed, especially in the morning in order to get ready for the day: · What time do you need to get up tomorrow?· Why is it always me who gets up first?get up at 7.00 a.m./dawn etc: · Frank gets up at half past five every morning.get up early/late: · I think we should get up early and leave before breakfast.· She goes to bed late and gets up late.
· I couldn't face getting out of bed this morning.· Isn't it about time you got out of bed?
to be out of bed and doing things: · Is Harry up yet?· I was up at six this morning.· Jake had been up since dawn.be up early: · You're up early!
spoken informal to get up, especially late and after being in bed for a long time: · "Have you seen Cathy?" "No, she hasn't surfaced yet."
to not work hard enough if a machine or piece of equipment works or is working , it can be used without any problems because there is nothing wrong with it: · Does the old tape recorder still work?· We had to go to the laundromat because the washing-machine wasn't working.work fine/be working fine: · We tested the cable and it seems to be working fine.work well/be working well: · The new computers seem to work perfectly well, despite everyone's worries.
if something is in working order , it is working well and safely, especially because it has been well-cared for: · The mill was built in the 16th century and is still in working order.be in good/perfect/top working order: · The guns were all clean and in good working order.· As far as he could tell the engine was in perfect working order.
British spoken /run American spoken to be working properly - use this especially about a car, clock, or watch: · I dropped my watch, but it's still going.· I don't mind what kind of car we rent as long as it runs.
to be working well and without any problems - use this about computers or systems: · As soon as the new computer system is up and running, we can transfer our records onto it.· The new hiring process should be up and running by the end of the year.
a place, system, or large piece of machinery that is operational is working and ready to be used at any time: · At least eight countries are known to have operational nuclear weapons.fully operational: · The terminal is fully operational and airlines will begin using it next week.
especially British also on-line American a new system or large piece of machinery that is on-stream or on-line , is ready to be used - used especially in business: · All the oil refineries in the region are now back on-stream.come on-stream/on-line: · Another nuclear reactor is scheduled to come on-line in January.bring something on-stream/on-line: · With so much money in grants, we need to start thinking now about the projects we want to bring on-stream.
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nounBMP, nounbond certificate, book entry, bookmark, nounbookmark, verbbook of final entry, nounbook of first entry, nounBoolean, adjectiveboot, verbbootable, adjectivebootstrapping, nounbot, nounbotnet, nounbps, brain dump, nounbroadband, nounbrown goods, nounbrowse, verbbrowser, nounbubble jet printer, nounbuddy list, nounbuffer, nounbuffer, verbbug, nounbulletin board, nounbundle, nounbundle, verbburn, verbbus, nounbusiness continuity services, nounbusiness continuity services, button, nounbyte, nounCabinet Office Briefing Rooms, cable modem, nouncache, nouncache, verbCAD, nounCAD/CAM, nounCAL, nounCalifornia, nounCALL, nounCAM, nounCambridge, Capita, caps lock, nouncapture, verbcapture, nouncard, nouncathode ray tube, nounCAT scan, nounCBT, nounCD-R, nounCD-ROM, nounCD-ROM drive, CDRW, nounCD-RW, nouncentral processing unit, nouncentral processor, nounCGI, nounCHAPS, character, nounchat room, nouncheat, nouncheckbox, nounchip, nounchip card, CIM, CIO, clerical assistant, click, 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adjectiveelectronic bill of lading, electronic cottage, nounelectronic data interchange, nounelectronic funds transfer, nounelectronic invoice, electronic mail, nounelectronic media, electronic publishing, nounelectronics, nounelectrosmog, nounEllison, Larry, email, nounemail account, embed, verbencrypt, verbend-to-end, adjectiveenter, verbenterprise application integration, nounentry, nounEPROM, noune-publishing, nounequipment leasing, erase, verbErnie, error, nounerror message, nounescape key, Ethernet, noune-ticket, nounE-ticket, nounexecutable, nounexecute, verbexecution, nounexit, verbexpansion card, nounexpansion slot, nounexpert system, nounexport, verbextension, nounextranet, nouneye scan, nounF2F, adjectivefabricator, nounfactory preset, nounfatware, nounfeed, verbfeed, nounfield, nounfifth generation computer, file, nounfile manager, nounfilename, nounfile sharing, nounfile transfer, filing system, filter, nounfirewall, nounfirmware, nounfirst generation, nounfirst in, first out, nounfirst-person shooter, nounfive nines, nounfixed wireless, nounflash, verbflash, nounflash drive, nounflash memory, nounflatscreen, adjectiveflat screen, flip chip, nounfloor broker, floppy disk, nounfly-by-wire, nounfolder, nounfont, nounfooter, nounfootprint, nounforklift upgrade, nounformat, verbFortran, nounforum, noun404, adjectivefreeware, nounftp, nounfunction, nounfunctionality, nounfunction key, nounfungible, adjectivefuzzy logic, nounGame Boy, gameplay, noungamer, noungaming, noungarbage in, garbage out, Gates, Bill, gateway, nounghost, nounGIF, noungigabit, noungigabyte, nounGIGO, GIS, nounGlitter, Gary, global, adjectiveGLOBEX, nounGMS, nounGoogle, gopher, noungraphical, adjectivegraphical user interface, noungraphics, noungraphics card, noungraphic software, grid computing, noungroupware, nounGUI, nounhack, verbhack, nounhacker, nounhacktivist, nounhandshake, nounhard copy, nounhard disk, nounhard drive, nounhardware, nounhard-wired, adjectiveHawk, Tony, Hawking, Stephen, head, nounheader, nounhelp, nounhelp desk, nounhelp menu, help screen, nounHewlett Packard, hexadecimal, adjectivehigh-definition, adjectivehigh-level, adjectivehigh-level language, highlight, verbhome computer, home office, nounhome shopping, hookup, nounhook-up, nounhost computer, hot key, nounhot link, nounhot spot, nounHTML, nounhttp, hyperlink, nounhypertext, nounIBM, icon, nounICT, nounidentifier, nouniMac, nounimport, verbinbox, nounincremental backup, nounincubator space, industrial design, infect, verbinfected, adjectiveinformation exchange, information retrieval, nouninformation system, information technology, nouninfowar, nouninitialize, verbinkjet printer, nouninput, nouninput, verbinput/output, adjectiveinstall, verbinstaller, nounInstinet, Intel, intelligent terminal, interactive, adjectiveinteractive whiteboard, nouninterface, nouninterface, verbInternational Securities Exchange, nounInternet cafe, nounInternet Service Provider, interpreter, nounintranet, 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drive, nounPentium, peripheral, adjectiveperipheral, nounpersonal communicator, nounpersonal computer, nounpersonal electronic device, nounpersonal organizer, nounpetaflop, nounphishing, nounping, verbpiracy, nounpirate, verbpixel, nounplasma screen, nounplatform, nounplatform game, nounPlayStation, plotter, nounplug and play, nounplug-and-play, adjectiveplug-in, nounpointer, nounpop-under, nounpop-up, nounport, nounport, verbportable, adjectivepost, verbpost-industrial, adjectivePostScript, nounPowerPoint, nounprint, verbprinter, nounprintout, nounprint-out, nounprint preview, nounprocess, verbprocessing, nounprocessor, nounprogram, nounprogram, verbprogram file, programmable, adjectiveprogrammer, nounprogramme trading, programming, nounprogramming language, PROLOG, nounPROM, nounprompt, verbprompt, nounprotocol, nounPsion, pull down, nounpull-down, adjectivepull-down menu, nounpunched card, nounquantum computer, nounQuarkXPress, queue, nounqwerty, adjectiveRAM, nounrandom access memory, nounread, verbread only memory, read-only memory, nounread-out, nounread-write, adjectivereal-time, adjectivereboot, verbrecall, verbre-chip, verbrecord, nounrecord, verbrefresh, verbreload, verbremaster, verbremote access, nounremote control, nounremote working, nounreseller, nounreset, verbrespawn, verbretinal scanner, nounretrieval, nounretrieve, verbretry, verbreturn, nounright-click, verbrip, verbroad warrior, nounrobot, nounrollover, nounROM, nounRoute 128, nounrouter, nounroutine, nounRSI, nounRTF, nounrun, verbsalami slicing, nounSamsung, save, verbscalability, nounscalable, adjectivescan, verbscanner, nounscramble, verbscreen, nounscreen-based, adjectivescreen dump, nounscreensaver, nounscreen saver, nounscreenshot, nounscroll, verbscroll bar, nounscroll key, SCSI, nounSEAQ, search, nounsearch, verbsearchable, adjectivesearch engine, nounSEATS, nounsecurity rating, SEGA, self-healing, adjectivesend, verbserial port, server, nounserver farm, nounservice bureau, nounservice pack, nounSET, nounset-up, nounSFA, nounSGML, nounshareware, nounshift, nounshift key, nounshoot-'em-up, nounshopping bot, sig file, nounsilicon, nounsilicon chip, nounSilicon Fen, nounSilicon Glen, Silicon Valley, sim, nounSIMM, nounsimulation, nounSinclair, Sir Clive, single sourcing, skin, nounslo-mo, adjectivesmall office/home office, nounsmart, adjectivesmart bomb, nounsneakernet, nounsoft copy, nounsoftware, nounsoftware engineering, SoHo, SOHO, nounSonic the Hedgehog, sort, nounsoundcard, nounsource code, nounspace bar, nounspam, nounspeech recognition, nounspeech recognition software, speech synthesizer, nounspellcheck, nounspellchecker, nounspell-checker, nounspider, nounspider food, nounspim, nounsplit screen, nounspreadsheet, nounspreadsheet software, spyware, nounstandalone, adjectivestand-alone, adjectivestandby time, nounStarr Report, the, nounstarter pack, nounstart-up, nounstorage, nounstorage unit, store, verbstore-and-forward, nounstrategic information system, stream, verbstreaming, nounStreet Fighter, string, nounstylus, nounsubdirectory, nounsubroutine, nounsuite, nounSun Microsystems, sunrise industry, nounsupercomputer, nounsuperserver, nounsupport, verbsupport, nounswitching, nounsynchronous, adjectivesyntax, nounsynthespian, nounsystem, nounsystem administrator, nounsystems analyst, nounsystems programmer, system tray, nountab, verbtab key, nountab stop, nountag, nountag, verbtape, nountape drive, taskbar, nountechie, nountechnical support, nountechno-, prefixtechnocracy, nountechno-geek, nountechnophobe, nountechy, telecentre, nountelecommuter, nountelematics, nounteleprinter, nounteleworker, nountemplate, nounterabyte, nounteraflop, nounterminal, nountestdeck, nountext-to-speech, adjectivethird-generation, adjectivethird-party software, thumbnail, nountickbox, nountick box, nountime out, nountime-sharing, nountitle bar, nountoggle, nountoner, nountoolbar, nountoolbox, nounTOPIC, nountop-level domain, nountop ranking, 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nounweb crawler, nounweb design, nounweb development, web-enabled, adjectiveweb hosting, nounweb log, nounweb log file, wide area network, wi-fi, nounWi-Fi, nounwild card, nounwindow, nounWindows, Wintel, wipe, verbWiponet, nounwireless internet, wireless networking, nounWord, Wordperfect, word processor, nounworkspace, nounworkstation, nounWorld Wide Web, the, worm, nounWozniak, Steve, write, verbwrite-protected, adjectiveWYSIWYG, nounXbox, XML, nounY2K, nounYahoo!, zap, verbzip file, nounzombie, noun
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United were a goal up at half time. It’s time to get up (=get out of bed). It’s good to see you up and about again (=out of bed after an illness and moving around normally). Children aged 12 and up must pay the full fare. a process that can take anything up to ten days I always suspected that he was up to no good (=doing something bad). There could well be a few problems before your new computer is up and running properly. Murphy will be really up against it when he faces the champion this afternoon. What’s up? Why are you crying?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She decided to put the baby up for adoption. We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. We’re all going out to get bevvied up. Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. The presenter gave her a big build-up. He got his call-up papers in July. I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. A great cheer went up from the crowd. Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image. Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease. He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme. I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). a stand-up comic Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. We cranked up the volume. I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). Anna got fed up with waiting. Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce. You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. a politician climbing up the greasy pole The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) The pressure at work continued without any let-up. This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game). The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones. Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? The Houston Astros have notched up another win. I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. A team of volunteers were putting up posters. He built up a good rapport with the children. She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up. The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates. Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere. My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls. The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. up-to-date kitchen equipment The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.
United were a goal up at half time. It’s time to get up (=get out of bed). It’s good to see you up and about again (=out of bed after an illness and moving around normally). Children aged 12 and up must pay the full fare. (=look at someone in order to judge their appearance or character) Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye.
Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye. a process that can take anything up to ten days I always suspected that he was up to no good (=doing something bad). There could well be a few problems before your new computer is up and running properly. Murphy will be really up against it when he faces the champion this afternoon. What’s up? Why are you crying?· During his stay in England, he had picked up an English accent.
She decided to put the baby up for adoption. (=one that suddenly appears on your computer screen when you are looking at a website)· You can buy software that blocks unwanted pop-up advertisements.
We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. (=that you have tried not to show)· Her voice shook with suppressed anger.
(=find a way of dealing with a problem)· The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.
(=with a lot of buildings close together)· New development will not be allowed outside the existing built-up area.
· They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.
(=try to sell something at an auction) This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction.
This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction. (=to get an award – used especially in news reports)· Angelina Jolie scooped up the award for best actress.
Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? (=starts playing)· We were on the dance floor waiting for the band to strike up.
The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. (=find one)· You can often pick up a bargain at an auction.
· Some kids have erected emotional barriers that stop them from learning.
We’re all going out to get bevvied up. (=pay for something, especially when you do not want to)· Taxpayers will probably have to foot the bill.
(=use a lot of something so that you have a big bill to pay)· It’s easy to run up a big bill on your mobile phone.
Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. (=tie it to something so that it stays in one place)· You can tie up the boat to that tree.· How much does it cost to moor a boat here?
The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. (=for washing the dishes in)· a plastic washing-up bowl
(=catch one)· He seems to pick up every bug going.
(=form a clear idea about someone or something) We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened.
We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened. The presenter gave her a big build-up. (also erect a building formal)· They keep pulling down the old buildings and putting up new ones.
· The bank gave me a loan to help me set up in business.
· When you’re starting a business, you have to work longer hours.
· He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.
(=fasten it)· He quickly did up the buttons on his shirt.
· I added the cost up on a calculator.
He got his call-up papers in July. (=use up the calories you have eaten)· Even walking will help you to burn up calories.
(=make a camera ready to use)· The team set up their cameras some distance from the animals.
(=put up your tents and arrange the camping place)· The soldiers set up camp outside the city.
(=put forward a candidate)· Any member may nominate a candidate.
(=stops)· Why’s that police car pulling up here?
I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. (=move a chair nearer someone or something)· Pull up a chair and look at these pictures.
(also rise from your chair formal)· He got up from his chair and walked to the window.
(=get up quickly)· ‘Look at the time!’ she cried, jumping up from her chair.
(=not accept or use an opportunity)· Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!
· Sometimes we go to the cinema or just meet up for a chat.
(=make one)· Why not draw up a checklist of things you want to achieve this year?
A great cheer went up from the crowd. especially British English, raise a child especially American English· The cost of bringing up a child has risen rapidly.
· One in four children is growing up in poverty.
· Michael built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide.
(=support it)· They challenged him to back up his claims with evidence.
Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image.· The music was getting louder and building up to a climax.
(=turn a key to keep it working)· It was one of those old clocks that you have to wind up.
Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease.· Austria's ruling government coalition collapsed.
He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. (=create one)· The syndicate decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members.
We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.· He gradually built up a collection of plants from all over the world.
I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). (=performances with one person telling jokes alone)· He developed a stand-up comedy act.
a stand-up comic (=give one continuously)· Attenborough kept up a running commentary on the animals' movements.
· They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
· The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
· Two years later he started his own software company.
(=make it start working)
· My computer takes ages to start up in the morning.
(=is working again after stopping working)
(=gradually increase it)· When you’ve had an accident, it takes a while to build up your confidence again.
(=explain something more clearly)· The chairman said that he would try to clear up the confusion.
Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. (=write one)· The American constitution was drafted in 1787.
· Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.
(=write one)· The two sides drew up a contract.
(=made in case the original is lost)· Be sure you regularly make back-up copies of your data.
· The new tax will increase the cost of owning a car.
· The cost of electricity has risen again.
· A National Radio and Television Council was established to regulate the market.
(=make yourself feel brave)· Summoning all her courage, she got up to see what the noise was.
(=try to find it)· He was trying to pluck up the courage to end their relationship.
We cranked up the volume. (=to allow someone to treat you badly)· I’m not going to take any more of this crap!
I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. (=goes away in different directions)· Seeing there would be no more entertainment, the crowd began to disperse.
(=make a crowd go away in different directions)· A few warning shots were fired in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
(=fix new curtains at a window)· She was standing on a ladder hanging some new curtains.
I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. (also amass debts formal) (=borrow more and more money)· At that time he was drinking a lot and running up debts.
(also keep pace with demand) (=satisfy the demand)· Public funding for higher education has not kept up with demand.
(=prevent it from continuing)· Police moved in to break up the demonstration.
(=think of or suggest one)· We asked the architect to come up with another design.
· He got up from his desk to welcome the visitors.
· If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
British English informal (=with a lot of good food)· Mum always makes a slap-up dinner for me when I go home.
I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. (=write one)· Always write a rough draft of your essay first.· He drew up a draft of the club’s rules and regulations.
· Local authorities have drawn up new plans for waste disposal.
· The European Communities were drawing up proposals to control the export of chemicals.
· They drew up a list of suitable candidates for the job.
· A committee of teachers has drawn up guidelines for schools on how to deal with difficult students.
· Environmental organizations have been involved in drawing up the report.
· Some people draw up a contract when they get married.
· They haven’t yet drawn up a timetable for the elections.
· A small team has drawn up a programme of action.
(=set of laws and principles that govern a country)· The first Czech constitution was drawn up here in 1920.
(=plan of how to spend the money that is available)· Each year business managers draw up a budget.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). (=start doing a new job)· Neale has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1.
· Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
(=the period of time before an election)· There have been violent street protests in the run-up to the elections.
(=emotions that someone feels but does not express)· Crying can release pent-up emotions.
(=deliberately try to make people have strong feelings)· His speech roused the crowd and stirred up their emotions.
· She built her clothing empire from one small shop to an international chain.
British English, gun an engine American English (=make an engine go very fast)· As the lights turned green, Chris gunned the engine and we surged forward.
(=be very enthusiastic and keen to do something)· She came back from the course fired up with enthusiasm.
· It’s about time that we started cleaning up the environment.
· The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
(=be respected or admired more or less by someone)
(=cause something)· His assassination was one of the events that led to the First World War.
(=use someone as a good example of something)· He was held up as an example to the younger athletes.
· I made up some excuse about my car breaking down.· We’d better think up an excuse, fast.
· Do some warm-up exercises before lifting heavy weights.
(=be as good as someone hoped or expected)· The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
· Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
(=become excited)· His eyes lit up when I mentioned the word money.
(=make-up that you put on your eyelids or eyelashes)· She never leaves the house without lipstick and eye make-up.
(=they start to look happy)· Denise’s face lit up when she heard the news.
(=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)· Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.
Anna got fed up with waiting.· The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
· I must have made a mistake when I added up the figures.
Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce.· He and Matthew struck up a friendship.
(=put fuel in a vehicle's fuel tank)· Before leaving, I filled up with fuel at the local petrol station.
British English informal (=completely full) The filing cabinet was full to bursting.
The filing cabinet was full to bursting.· They have set up a fund to build a memorial to all those who died.
British English (=that you rent to keep a car or goods in)· They kept the car in a lock-up garage round the corner.
· She had bought and wrapped gifts for children in hospital.
(=stop having a romantic relationship)
You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. (=start playing golf)· He took up golf as a way of getting more exercise.
a politician climbing up the greasy pole (=the members decide not to play together anymore)· The group split up because of ‘musical differences’.
The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. (=deliberately try to cause arguments or bad feelings between people)· Right-wing parties tried to stir up hatred and exploit racial tension.
· Can you turn the heating down a bit?
Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. (=in a powerful position) someone high up in the CIA
someone high up in the CIA The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? (=stop hoping)· After so long without any word from David, Margaret was starting to lose hope.
The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. (=build a house, especially when it seems very quick)· I think they’ve ruined the village by putting up these new houses.
informal (=decorate it)· We’ve been doing up the house bit by bit since we first moved in.
(=think of an idea)· He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.
(=be as good as you think something should be)· The regime is not living up to its supposed democratic ideals.
(=be like the image you have presented of yourself)· He has certainly lived up to his wild rock-star image.
(=improve your image after it has been damaged)· The pop star promised to clean up his image after he was released from prison.
· They saw their income rise considerably over the next few years.
(=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.
(=make inflation worse)· The increase in food prices is fuelling inflation.· There are now fears that price rises will push up inflation.
(=start it)· Police launched an inquiry yesterday after a man was killed by a patrol car.
(=a more detailed interview after you have been successful in a previous interview)· She was asked back for a second interview.
(=accept someone's invitation)· I decided to take them up on their invitation to dinner.
(=say an issue should be discussed)· Some important issues were raised at the meeting.
(also an issue arises formal) (=people started to discuss it)· The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.
joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) (=continue to work hard and well)
(=try to have the same new impressive possessions that other people have)
· He climbed the ladder up to the diving platform.
· Be careful going down the ladder!
· Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.
(=put the laundry outside on a line to dry)· My mother was hanging out the laundry in the sun.
(=tidy away fallen leaves using a brush)· Jack was sweeping leaves in the back garden.
(=continue something that has stopped for a short time) Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.
Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.· I used all my leave in the summertime.
(=developed over time)· The legend of his bravery grew after he killed the dragon.
The pressure at work continued without any let-up.· The level of unemployment has increased.
· Lightning lit up the room briefly.
This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).· Could you make a list of any supplies we need?
The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones.· They’re not allowed to wear make-up to school.
(=be wearing make-up)· She had no make-up on.
· She rarely uses make-up.
(also apply make-up formal)· Gloria watched her mother put on her make-up.
(=put on make-up)· I’ll do your make-up for you, if you want.
(also remove make-up formal)· Take off eye make-up gently, using a cotton ball.
(=put a little more make-up on after some has come off)· She went into the bathroom to touch up her makeup.
(=accidentally rub it so that it spreads to areas where you do not want it)· Grace wiped her eyes, smudging her make-up.
(=a lot of make-up)· a girl in high heels and heavy make-up
· She was wearing far too much eye make-up.
(=make-up that actors wear in plays)· the elaborate stage make-up for ‘The Lion King’
(=very thick make-up worn by actors)· His face was covered by thick pancake makeup.
(=someone whose job is to put make-up on actors, people appearing on television etc)· the chief make-up artist on the film
(=ends because of disagreements)· Liz’s marriage broke up after only eight months.
British English informal (=a good meal)· Jennie cooked us a slap-up meal.
Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. (=be doing things that cause trouble or damage)· The children were lively and always up to mischief.
(also make mischief) (=do things that cause trouble or damage)· You spend too much time getting into mischief!
(=get rid of a misunderstanding)· I want to talk to you, to try and clear up any misunderstandings.
I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. (=become more and more successful)· The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
· She had saved up enough money to buy a car.
(=keep morale high)· It was becoming difficult to keep up the morale of the troops.
(also ascend a mountain formal)· Carrie and Albert went up the mountain, neither of them speaking as they climbed.
He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. (=make them stronger)· If you strengthen the muscles in your back you are less likely to have back problems.
Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. (=starts)· A number of myths have grown up about their relationship.
Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? (=one that curves up at the end)· She had big eyes and a turned-up nose.
The Houston Astros have notched up another win. (=write down what your notes say, using full sentences and more detail)· It’s a good idea to write up your notes soon after a lecture.
(=add several numbers together)· Write all the numbers down, then add them up.
· The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
(also enter an occupation formal) (=start doing one)· Many of his colleagues have taken up another occupation.· Our recent graduates have entered a wide range of occupations.
British English (=accept someone's offer)· I might take him up on his offer.
· The course also provides an opportunity to study Japanese.
· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
(=choose an option)· America was persuaded not to take up the option of military action.
(=continue to do something or happen as quickly as before)· China's society is transforming but can it keep up the pace?
(=do something as fast as something else is happening or being done)· It’s essential that we constantly update our skills and keep up with the pace of change.
I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. (=it ends and people go home)· The party broke up a little after midnight.
I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. (=be able to make regular payments)· He was having trouble meeting the interest payments.
· Liverpool put in a marvellous performance in the second half.
(=prepare one)· They are drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Archbishop.
· She stopped to fill up with petrol.
We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. (=gradually get an idea of what something is like)· Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
· The city authorities have abandoned their plans to host the Super Bowl.
(=think of a plan)· The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.
(=make a detailed plan, especially after considering something carefully)· He devised a daring plan to steal two million dollars.· The company has already drawn up plans to develop the site.
If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. (=start doing a job)· Woods took up a new position as managing director of a company in Belfast.
(=make a new opportunity available)· His recent performance opens up the possibility for him to compete in the Olympic Games.
(=start a new job)· She will take up her new post next month.
A team of volunteers were putting up posters.· No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.
(also fill a prescription American English) (=give a patient the drugs that a doctor says they need)· You can get the prescription made up at a chemist's.
(=keep pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· She kept up the pretence that her husband had died in order to claim the insurance money.
(=stop pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· Maria had abandoned any pretence of having faith of any kind long ago.
· When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.
(=increases quickly by a large amount)· The price of oil soared in the 1970s.
· Manufacturers have had to put their prices up.
· Pre-tax profits were up 21.5%.
(=organize it)· $30 million would be required to set up the project.
(=think of one)· The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.
· A committee of experts drew up proposals for a constitution.
· I think the quality has gone down over the years.
British English (=end it)· The brothers eventually patched up their quarrel.
(=make it quieter or louder)· Can you turn your radio down a bit?
He built up a good rapport with the children. (also the rate rises/increases more formal)· The crime rate just keeps going up.
· If the banks raise interest rates, this will reduce the demand for credit.
(=realize what is happening or real)· Well, they need to wake up to reality.
She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. (=make them recover more quickly)· She believes that a holiday would speed my recovery.
Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year.· The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.
(=be as good as people say it is)· New York certainly lived up to its reputation as an exciting city.
(=resist someone or something)· If the rest of us are agreed, I don’t think he’ll put up much resistance.
(=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)· His contract is coming up for review.
The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up.· Further downstream the river has dried up completely several times in recent years.
The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up (=a very angry row)· That night there was a stand-up row among the four kidnappers.
(=make them stricter)· The EU has tightened the rules on the quality of drinking water.
· Sales rose by 9% last year.
· Peasants managed their land as skilfully as some people higher up the social scale.
· Some farmers prospered and moved up the social scale.
We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. (=be found to have faults when examined)· Such arguments do not stand up to careful scrutiny.
Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem (=their value increases)· The company’s shares rose 5.5p to 103p.
(=fastened with laces)· He bought a pair of brown leather lace-up shoes.
The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates.· The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish.
(=with your back straight)· Sit up straight at the table, Maddie.
Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. (=sleep after not having enough sleep)· I suggest you try and catch up on some sleep.
I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere.· We are working together to find the best solution we can.
(=go faster)· The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.
(=keep them feeling happy)· He wrote home often, trying to keep his family’s spirits up.
(=start doing it)· I took up the sport six years ago.
My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. (=be good enough)· Her work was not up to standard.
· I had spent a lot of time looking up at the stars as a kid.
(also erect a statue formal) (=put it in a public place)· They put up a statue of him in the main square.· They should erect a statue to you for doing that.
I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. (=starts)· That night, a storm blew up.
(=starts)· In 1895 a diplomatic storm blew up between Britain and America over Venezuela.
· She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
(=make yourself stronger)· You need to build up your strength.
(=deliberately start talking about it)· You brought the subject up, not me.
(=people start talking about it)· The subject of payment never came up.
(=think of something to suggest)· We’ve come up with five suggestions.
(=appears at the beginning of the day)· As the sun rises, the birds take flight.
· The diver had nearly used up his supply of oxygen.
(=get people’s support by making an effort)· Both sides have been drumming up support through the internet.
(=increase it)· Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.
He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls.· She stood up from her chair and left the table.
The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. (=tears come into their eyes)· She broke off, feeling the tears welling up in her eyes.
· As soon as she got home, she picked up the telephone and dialled his number.
(=make it louder or quieter)· Rory had turned the television up so loud that the people next door complained.
· These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
British English (=when all the different parts of a plan or situation are considered together, so that it has better results)· The media has criticized the lack of joined-up thinking in the government’s plans for dealing with a terrorist attack.
We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. (=used to say that the time allowed for something has finished)· Time’s up, class. Put your pens down and hand your papers to the front.
· If you listen to the show, you’ll pick up some really useful gardening tips.
(=start talking about it)· It’s still a very difficult topic to raise.
· Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.
(=large vehicles used for particular purposes) His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.
His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. (=type a copy of something written by hand, in note form, or recorded) I went home to type up the report.
I went home to type up the report. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. (=to give someone all the newest information about something) Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion.
Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion. up-to-date kitchen equipment (=to make something more modern) The old system should be brought up to date.
The old system should be brought up to date. The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. (also a vacancy arises/occurs formal) (=there is a vacancy)· A vacancy has arisen on the committee.
· The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.
Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? (=in the top or bottom half of your body) Lota was paralysed from the waist down.
Lota was paralysed from the waist down. Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). British English I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall.
I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall. Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. (=achieve a win)· Escude has now notched up three consecutive wins over him.
(also the wind gets up British English) (=becomes stronger)· The rain beat down and the wind was picking up.
It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. (=open or shut the window in a car)· Lucy rolled the window down and waved to him.
(=try to find it in a book)· I looked the word up in my dictionary.
She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.· The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB· Again her heart is represented by the mechanism from an old lift: she goes up and down as others will her.· The curtain went up, essentially in darkness.· Nurses busily went up and down, sometimes pausing to exchange words and careless laughter.· His first painting goes up for auction on Friday.· Two more models are going up by Wilshire Homes of Austin.· How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down?· Right before the mill closed, production almost cruelly began to go up.
· The drafting of recommendations is one thing, the taking up of their recommendations is quite another.· Connecticut is assessing high school students in math and science based on team-oriented projects that take up to a semester of work.· The day is taken up with trying to control the child rather than having fun.· Justin has an upper berth on one of two sets of bunk beds that take up most of the tiny room.· Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment.· The more space they take up, the larger the object looks.· Since the school took up so much space on the island, the rugby pitches were the size of tennis courts.· Usually when a leader fails, subordinates can take up the reins.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► up against something/somebody► be up to here► up the workers!/up the reds! etc► up yours!► somebody is (so) up himself/herself etcPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► have an ace up your sleeve► back somebody/something ↔ up► back somebody/something ↔ up► beat somebody ↔ up► beat yourself up► big up (to/for) somebody► big it up► somebody’s blood is up► blow something ↔ up► blow something ↔ up► boil something ↔ up► pull/haul yourself up by your bootstraps► bottoms up!► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break somebody up► bring somebody up short/with a start► buck up!► build something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build up somebody’s hopes► be bunged up► burn something ↔ up► burn somebody up► burn something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► call something ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call something ↔ up► camp it up► have another card up your sleeve► chalk it up to experience► cheer something ↔ up► choke something ↔ up► choke somebody up► churn something ↔ up► churn something ↔ up► clean something ↔ up► clear something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close up/up close/close to► coming (right) up!► wrap somebody (up) in cotton wool► cough something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► something is not all/everything it’s cracked up to be► take up the cudgels (on behalf of somebody/something)► cut something ↔ up► cut somebody/something ↔ up► cut somebody ↔ up► be badly cut up► look/feel like death warmed up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do yourself up► draw yourself up (to your full height)► draw something ↔ up► pull up the drawbridge► dress something ↔ up► be drugged up to the eyeballs► be up to your ears in work/debt/problems etc► eat something ↔ up► be eaten up with/by jealousy/anger/curiosity etc► be up to your eyes in something► up to the/your eyeballs in something► drugged/doped up to the eyeballs► put up a good fight► fill yourself (up)/fill your face► fill somebody up► put two fingers up at somebody► finish something ↔ up► first up► go up in flames/burst into flames► foul something ↔ up► in (the) front/up front► fuck somebody ↔ up► make a fuss/kick up a fuss (about something)► the game’s up► gather somebody to you/gather somebody up► pick up/take up the gauntlet► gee somebody ↔ up► gee up!► give something ↔ up► give up something► give something/somebody ↔ up► give somebody ↔ up► give it up for somebody► grow up!► be up a gum tree► be gunged up with something► be gunked up (with something)► hang something ↔ up► hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc► heads up!► get/build up a head of steam► hold something ↔ up► hold somebody/something ↔ up► hold up something► hook somebody up with something► be hung-up about/on something► hurry somebody/something up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► be up with the lark► laugh up your sleeve► lay something ↔ up► lead somebody up the garden path► make up leeway► lever yourself up► light something ↔ up► light something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► line somebody/something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► liven something ↔ up► lock something ↔ up► lock somebody ↔ up► look something ↔ up► look somebody ↔ up► be made up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► be made up to captain/manager etc► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make somebody ↔ up► somebody’s make-up► not up to the mark► match somebody/something ↔ up► match up to somebody’s hopes/expectations/ideals etc► mess something ↔ up► mess something ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► make up your mind/make your mind up► up north► somebody’s number comes up► be one up (on somebody)/get one up on somebody► open something ↔ up► open something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► be penned up/in► turn up like a bad penny► pick something/somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pile something ↔ up► go piss up a rope!► play something ↔ up► play (somebody) up► play (somebody) up► pop-up restaurant/bar/shop etc► prick (up) its ears► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put up something► put something up► put somebody ↔ up► put up or shut up► ring something ↔ up► roll a window up► roll up!► come out of something/come up smelling of roses► be coming up roses► rub somebody up the wrong way► run something ↔ up► run something ↔ up► screw something ↔ up► screw somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody up► set somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► shape up or ship out► take/put up with shit (from somebody)► shoot somebody/something ↔ up► show something ↔ up► show somebody ↔ up► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► sign somebody ↔ up► sit somebody up► take up/pick up the slack► split something ↔ up► square up to somebody/something► stack something ↔ up► stand somebody up► step something ↔ up► stick 'em up► stoke something ↔ up► stoke up something► stoke up on/with something► stop something ↔ up► straighten something ↔ up► suck it up► sum something ↔ up► sum something ↔ up► sum somebody/something ↔ up► sweep somebody ↔ up► take something ↔ up► take something up► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take something ↔ up► tart yourself up/get tarted up► tear up an agreement/contract etc► tear it up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► tie somebody ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► not have much up top► somebody is up to their (old) tricks► tune something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► a turn-up for the book(s)► Wait up!► warm-ups► wash something ↔ up► put the wind up somebody/get the wind up► wind something ↔ up► wind somebody ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► work up enthusiasm/interest/courage etc► work up an appetite/a thirst/a sweat► work somebody up► work something ↔ up► go up/come down in the world► wrap something ↔ up► the wrong way up
1to a higher position towards a higher place or position OPP down: - I want you kids to stop running up and down in the hall.
- All night he parades up and down the bar like a brawny old cockerel.
- He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
- If you build your jig slightly larger than your posts it will slide up and down more easily.
- She opened doors, walked up and down, inspected rooms.
- The old woman nodded, left and right and up and down.
- The whole place reverberated with noise, feet pounding up and down stairs, children yelling, women shouting, doors banging.
- Two dancers in harness are walking up and down the pole.
- When the Goldwater scholarship was announced this spring, Flores jumped up and down, not for joy, but from surprise.
- I have a feeling that Jo's up to something.
- Our car can hold up to five people.
- She continued to care for her father up to the time of his death.
- Since the operation, Sue hasn't been up to playing tennis.
- This new CD is not up to the group's usual standard.
- Here, at least, the level of knowledge should be up to answering more detailed questions.
- If anyone asked what they were up to, they planned to say they were on a fishing expedition.
- It is up to Jim and Bess Hunt to investigate the case.
- It is up to the parents to be parents.
- It is up to the researcher not to damage that trust but to build on it.
- It is up to us to take advantage of this opportunity and make it a new start for a healthier future.
- The effect, enhanced in buildings and enclosed spaces, can be up to 16 times more destructive than conventional high explosives.
- The water is nearly above my waist now and soon it will be up to my neck.
- Even the most personal subjects were up for discussion.
- The house is up for sale.
- As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up.
- The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.
- They stopped talking to him, which is always a hint that something is up.
- Vik senses something is up and confronts Karen, who tells him Steve tried it on with her.
- But deep inside there was a brooding that was welling up in him.
- By eight o'clock, when the first pair was due to tee off, the sun was well up in a clear sky.
- Borrowers on a budget plan have to wait till the year is up before they can reap the benefits.
- I had not slept much and was up before dawn.
- In November 1987 they were up before the court on badger digging charges - one got off due to inadequate evidence.
- Rae was up before dawn all that week.
- The women were up before first light and called me over for tea.
- We will have to be up before dawn for the Buddhist ceremony.
- There were a few things in his story that didn't add up.
- Why had she left the note? It just didn't add up.
- Although these sonatas do not add up to music of enormous consequence, Schultz and Schenkman bestow royal treatment upon them.
- His promises do not add up.
- Now at first glance these figures do not add up.
- The Opposition can not add up.
- The Racal twins: their share prices just do not add up Outlook.
- The right hon. Gentleman's priorities do not add up and he knows it.
- They were suspicious about my past, my age and a picture of me that simply did not add up.
- Still, it all adds up to an interesting polemic.
- Twenty hours, $ 14m and 33 actors-it all adds up to..
- A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.
- And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?
- At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
- Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.
- In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
- What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
- I might be going on a training course next week, but it's still up in the air.
- Our trip to Orlando is still up in the air.
- They still haven't said if I've got the job -- it's all up in the air at the moment.
- But they were up in the air, and they were moving.
- If I don't work to a routine then I feel everything is up in the air!
- It was wonderful to be up in the air and to feel the air swishing past his face.
- When he was up in the air he was engaged, his spirits prospered and his intellect was keener than a needle.
- It's all up for you then.
- The job sounds right up your alley.
- She said, I will tell you this Bobby Kennedy is right up my alley.
- Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.
- Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.
- Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.
- Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.
- Palmer's contribution was to up the ante.
- Sometimes the parents upped the ante.
- The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.
- The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
- What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.
- For now, I can keep up appearances and still go to the same restaurants as my friends.
- Of course, he tries to keep up appearances, but he lives entirely off borrowed money.
- She put Christmas decorations in the window just to keep up appearances.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Pine Valley residents are up in arms about plans to build a prison in the area.
- Residents are up in arms about plans for a new road along the beach.
- And already fans are up in arms.
- But it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it.
- Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room.
- John Adams decided that everyone but Episcopalians was up in arms against the new tax law.
- Mavis Bramley was up in arms about the woman from Oldham.
- The association's members were up in arms.
- Those people would be up in arms.
- Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report.
- He treats everyone like children, and that's why he puts people's backs up.
- It really gets my back up when salesmen call round to the house.
- At Eagle Butte I stopped and got a clamp, got the pipe back up there some way.
- He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone's back up.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- She'd even got Bert's back up proper, over his betting and poor old Floss.
- Simon naturally put people's backs up.
- You got to get back up.
- We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
- You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
- Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
- Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
- However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
- In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
- People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
- They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
- I used to beat up on my brothers when we were kids.
- Everybody beat up on him because he made the team.
- She's never going to get anywhere if she tries to beat up on males, especially a catch like me.
- There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.
- They just love beating up on architects.
- Tim's business went belly up in 1993.
- Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.
- Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.
- Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
- This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.
- The issue was blown far out of proportion.
- It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.
- Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.
- Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.
- But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
- Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
- Liable blow up in their faces.
- Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.
- Nothing of its kind had ever been done before, and it could have blown up in his face.
- When the clothes iron blows up in your face.
- I'm all booked up this week, but I can see you on Monday.
- Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that.
- But all flights were booked up.
- His courses in Wengen and Tignes can be booked up through Supertravel: 01-584 5060.
- Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre.
- So it's no surprise that a safety seminar for women was booked up within days of being announced.
- Because the Saints gave an economic boost to the young state, Illinoisans at first greeted them congenially.
- Cally had been intimidated by the occasion and Jen wanted to give her a boost.
- Fishing industry lands a big boost Scarborough's fishing industry has been given a big boost thanks to shoals of scallops.
- He says the government's turnaround on interest and exchange rate policies should give an extra boost to Christmas trading too.
- His defeat gives a further boost to Mr Kinnock's already overriding executive majority.
- It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him, and it made her actions easy.
- This will give a further boost to the economy.
- This will help to cut pollution and save energy and give a valuable boost to the housing market.
- Jim's too bound up in his own worries to be able to help us.
- The history of music is, of course, bound up with the development of musical instruments.
- All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.
- Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.
- Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
- Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright.
- More usually, the body was bound up in a folded position, with the knees under the chin.
- The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
- These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
- A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
- According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.
- But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.
- Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
- It is bound up with the family as a whole.
- The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
- This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
- Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
- Although it was cold and the air was running out, she was burning up.
- In the on-line world, customers were burning up the lines.
- In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day.
- Think about the calories you are burning up - 200 for every 30 minute walk!
- We get caught up in the commercial aspects of Christmas.
- And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
- I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
- I thought at one time it might be caught up in the Christmas post.
- Kenetech got caught up in that.
- Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.
- Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.
- Some of these girls get caught up in this freedom idea.
- When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.
- Keep your chin up! We'll get through this together!
- Gwen finally told her troubled son to clean up his act or get out of her house.
- She told her son to clean up his act or move out.
- Tish has really cleaned up her act - she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more.
- But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.
- Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act.
- Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering.
- Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.
- Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
- More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.
- Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act.
- The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.
- Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years.
- Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
- A few companies closed up shop in California.
- And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
- At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good.
- A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
- Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.
- It sometimes comes on in the open air.
- It sounded good, it felt good to say, it made lights come on in my mouth.
- Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open.
- Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.
- Suddenly, all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in.
- Sure, I said, come on over.
- Alison's birthday is coming up.
- Don't forget you've got exams coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
- Don't forget you have a test coming up on Thursday.
- I'm pretty busy right now -- I have exams coming up next week.
- Our 12th annual Folk Festival is coming up again soon.
- With Christmas coming up, we didn't have much spare money.
- Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.
- Gripping the over head chrome rail, he stooped forward as if to see what street was coming up.
- Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct.
- Some faces shone white in the moonlight that was coming up behind a copse.
- The sun was coming up as we drove away from Sobey's.
- The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
- The wind was coming up and there was weather to port. ` Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes.
- When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time.
- BUndeterred, the group is revising its proposal and plans to contest every license that comes up for review.
- At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
- It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
- A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
- He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
- Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
- High ranking military men were covering up for the murderers.
- And start covering up for them.
- By lying and covering up for her husband, the wife provides negative reinforcement for his violence.
- Heaven only knows what else you've done that Paige has covered up for.
- The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted.
- All those crack shits shooting up the streets?
- It nearly cracked me up and he could see what it did to me.
- It used to crack me up.
- It was funny, he cracked me up last night.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- Most of the humor consists of watching Shore crack himself up with his own Valley garble.
- The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up.
- I'll really be up the creek if I don't get paid this week.
- Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek.
- What he learned from that interview was that Graham Ross was up the creek without a paddle.
- But he can cut up rough and turn a bit nasty if he's got a mind to.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- Some recent columns have gotten readers' dander up.
- I paint her face and do her hair.
- I said, I did, I was approached about who does your hair?
- It's to do with the hair.
- Now, do you want me to do your make-up, or not?
- One test of our response to the change made by age is what we decide to do about grey hair.
- She said that the day of the wedding, she should do my hair first.
- The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.
- Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.
- Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.
- He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
- He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.
- I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.
- Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.
- The guest room's two doors down the corridor.
- The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.
- I still half expect the food to be doped.
- In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury.
- Kerr-McGee charged she was doped up with Quaaludes.
- Everything that can be dragged up as a skeleton on Mugabe and his underlings must be dragged up.
- Her frozen limbs were dragged up an impressively wide staircase and then along a hallway.
- I assume a lot of people will laugh at Morrissey for this and the Glastonbury thing will be dragged up again.
- The whale will be dragged up its main ramp and butchered.
- In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
- Marshall drew up a chair for her.
- Mr Browning drew up a chair for her, as nice as could be, and sat down himself.
- When they reached the cafe, Zeinab drew up a chair beside Hargazy.
- He drew his knees up, preparing himself to fight off any further attack.
- Paige drew her knees up inside the bag, resting her chin on them.
- Now, remember the elegant woman, always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
- It helped them keep their end up in battle, too, claim historians.
- It is difficult to get skips in this age group capable of keeping their end up at this level of competition.
- Richter kept his end up by arranging a press visit to Huemul Island on 21 June, 1951.
- Stein is up to his eyebrows in debt.
- He fell across the wall, twisting, face up.
- If convicted, they face up to a year in jail and up to a $ 2, 500 fine.
- If found guilty, he could face up to two years in jail.
- It took time until she could face up to it.
- Sabit Brokaj of the Socialist Party faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
- We must face up to this.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and hold them as high as possible.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times.
- But at the rear, in his camels-hair coat, filling up a comer with his huge body, he was standing.
- Fast cars drink petrol, and if you don't fill up often, your roses will become stranded with empty tanks.
- From where Nathan was sitting, in a chapel adjacent to the altar, he could hear the cathedral filling up.
- He can fill up the lane, earn his minutes and his keep just by being big.
- The doc says her lungs are all filled up with water.
- The space between them was filling up with unasked and unanswered questions.
- To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
- Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
- Well, at least put your feet up for a few minutes. Would you like a drink?
- When you're pregnant and doing a full-time job, you must find time to put your feet up.
- E for elevation, otherwise known as putting your feet up.
- He pushed the ottoman over and I put my feet up.
- He says it gave him time to put his feet up and relax.
- Take off your coat and put your feet up.
- Tammuz had dimmed the lights, put his feet up, and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen.
- That boy needs a lot of teaching, he thought, putting his feet up.
- Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes.
- He's always up front and willing to admit his mistakes.
- I paid the builders £100 up front and will give them the rest when the job's finished.
- I told you up front that I didn't want to be in a relationship with anyone.
- Karen is always very up front with her boyfriends.
- The company's directors have been surprisingly up front about their financial problems.
- The only people who laughed were the American soldiers who sat up front.
- We've got to have the money up front before we can do anything.
- We've had so many unpaid bills that we've started to demand payment up front.
- Why don't you sit up front with the driver so you can give him directions.
- Any damned fool can get a plane up in the air.
- He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.
- I dreaded to think what would happen if the two got mixed up.
- I fell down, knocked me walking-frame over and I couldn't get meself up again.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- Left unstirred, simmering soup will produce a scum that gets caught up in the eddies.
- While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the Gulf War veteran got swept up in an off-base drug scene.
- Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.
- More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years.
- And she's got it up top, an' all.
- Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there.
- He'd see it raise slightly, but he couldn't quite get it up.
- Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.
- She won't be able to get it up on her own anyway.
- My old car's finally given up the ghost.
- Doctors said that while his heart was fine, his vascular system had given up the ghost.
- Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again.
- He would ordinarily blow out the candle and give up the ghost.
- The spores do germinate, go through a few perfunctory cell divisions, then give up the ghost.
- They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
- This is the gentler way: convince the mind the body's dead and it gives up the ghost.
- What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey.
- With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
- I'm girding up my loins for battle on this tax issue.
- We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London.
- But then, why give them up so abruptly?
- But we would not give it up without a desperate struggle.
- He is not going to give that up.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- I kept starting new regimes, then finding I couldn't give them up.
- In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.
- That's why I want to give it up for adoption.
- After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
- Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
- It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
- On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
- Anyone waiting around on street corners at night must be up to no good.
- If you ask me, that husband of hers is up to no good.
- She knew that her brother was up to no good but she didn't tell anyone.
- Those guys look like they're up to no good.
- Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.
- Before long the entire paper industry is up for grabs.
- But the software, particularly the interface, was up for grabs.
- Canary Wharf was up for grabs.
- Howe said Doug Johns is his fifth starter, but the fourth slot is up for grabs.
- I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
- Regional and runners-up prizes will also be up for grabs.
- The lower house of Congress also is up for grabs in the July elections.
- This is the process whereby every scrap of green land in a town is up for grabs by development.
- Every year Dad puts on his Santa suit and hams it up for the kids.
- For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
- Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
- Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently.
- He brought his hands up to the typewriter keys and forced himself to begin.
- She threw her hands up in the air and leaned back, stretching, arching her chest upward.
- Singer put both hands up before his face, arms outstretched; he was begging.
- Sometimes you have got to hold your hands up and accept that certain players are not right for you.
- The next minute the grenade thrower appeared with his hands up.
- The police mounted an early-morning assault on his office, and Mr Bucaram came running out with his hands up.
- Annie hauls herself out of her chair, nets a shiner from the tank, and throws it out the screen door.
- Next day I hauled myself out of bed, took breakfast and got into the truck about a quarter to six.
- He had held up his head in the most exalted company.
- How does he hold up his head if he knows his wife is deceiving him?
- As a baby she may have had a hard time holding her head up, for example.
- Her own cheeks had gone pale; her lids drooped over her eyes; she held her head up in her hand.
- How else could a girl hold her head up in her family?
- However, Linfield can hold their heads up high.
- Just holding my head up like that.
- Remember this when the pace hots up!
- He rarely left the Brooklyn apartment where he had set up house.
- Her parents were very upset when she set up house with her boyfriend.
- They first set up house together in Atlanta and moved to Miami three years later.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Diana and I were soon to set up house in Shepherd's Bush and our fortunes were inextricable for the next decade.
- He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country.
- I have to save enough money to set up house.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- They set up house in No. 93, which was now to let.
- Hurry up - we're late!
- For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
- In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
- It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
- Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
- Arnold would keep us all up with his long, rambling stories.
- I'm often kept up by the noise of laughter and music from next door.
- Crusty Bill boasts he's on a spicy vegetarian diet to keep his strength up for love.
- During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
- He had a strong sense of humour, and kept his spirits up.
- I had to keep my strength up.
- I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
- She ate a little to keep her strength up.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Women in cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels before an audience of 24,000.
- BThey kicked up their heels, spun, twirled and got down till dawn.
- But perhaps you too are kicking up your heels elsewhere by now.
- She deserves to kick up her heels.
- This is your chance to kick up your heels and support this group of anonymous women artists.
- Women in white boots, short shorts and frilly cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels on it.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
- He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
- I think I just needed a kick up the backside.
- They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.
- A rock so large it must have taken two hands to lift it hit me on the jaw.
- His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem, nomatterhow large it appears to be, can be overcome.
- I was surprised by how large it was.
- If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer.
- It was looking at me and I marveled at how very large it was.
- Some bring aboard luggage so large it has its own wheels.
- The load was so large it took 15 agents more than an hour to unpack it.
- With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree.
- All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin's hoard was laid up for winter's sustenance.
- How much land must you commit to arable rotation, and how much must be laid up for hay or silage?
- I don't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle.
- In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months.
- It was, and Venturous was laid up at Buckie for nearly ten months while new Cummins engines were fitted.
- Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk.
- She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up.
- The barges, designed to be sailed by one man and a boy, could be laid up in a few days.
- Joining the Visa network would give it the leg-up it needs.
- Hey, lighten up! It's only a game, you know!
- Lisa was living it up like she didn't have a care in the world.
- Accountant used cash to live it up.
- I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or.
- It's no good looking for a man's body round here if the owner's living it up in Costa Rica.
- The trim is the shirt; here you can live it up, get a touch more fashionable.
- They lived it up while they were on Earth.
- This contented canine's living it up.
- Under a false identity, he's living it up in Florence, dining out with the aristocracy.
- All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.
- His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.
- I was locked up for nine years, you know that?
- It was locked up somewhere round at the back.
- Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.
- That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.
- "Don't be silly - you don't need to lose weight," he said, looking her up and down.
- The hotel manager slowly looked the old man up and down and then asked him to leave.
- Every day after the first two weeks I would look anxiously up and down the road, hoping to see their car.
- Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision.
- Ron Barton looked her up and down.
- She looked him up and down.
- She stood there, looking Sherman up and down, as if she were angry.
- The eaters were lo-cals; they looked us up and down when we went in.
- The guy looked him up and down and then something clicked.
- He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
- The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
- After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
- He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
- Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
- None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
- Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
- Time to make up for lost time.
- For example, a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week.
- He would make it up to him, the rector thought.
- In California, people making up to $ 40,000 a year qualify for help.
- Not so much eating it, really, as making up to it.
- The company stands to make up to £7m in fees if it offloads the Dome quickly.
- Ecosystems in the wild are made up of patches.
- I've given him until tomorrow morning to make up his mind.
- It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made.
- It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go.
- The remaining budget was made up by personal contributions-student loans!-from the team members.
- This contains the pattern of dots that, when printed on paper, will make up the actual character.
- Add the ginger wine and, finally, the stem ginger, mixing it in very thoroughly.
- He did an excellent job getting some steals, mixing it up and changing the complexion of the game.
- I thought we might mix it up this year and try some blues.
- Once the required colour has been mixed it is then stored in the palette for use at any time.
- Out the window, the last bit of sunlight mixed it up with the lights from the parking lot.
- They can't wait to mix it with the opposition!
- Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.
- You may find as you mix it that you need to add a bit more water.
- A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy.
- Everything else about this journey is starting to get mixed up in my head.
- He defended me and Eddie when we got mixed up in a couple of scrapes.
- He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club.
- Her son's got mixed up in it, probably demonstrated yesterday with the Socialists outside the Town Hall.
- I still do not want to get mixed up in any Indochina decision...
- It was nothing to do with her, and whatever it was she didn't want to be mixed up in it.
- We weren't going to get mixed up in a job, when we were going home off duty.
- Answer: She would never have got mixed up with him in the first place.
- But this all gets mixed up with motivation too: the horse must be motivated to learn.
- I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month.
- It's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland's will.
- Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last.
- Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
- Trust Auguste to get mixed up with it.
- We used to get mixed up with the fight.
- Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
- We were up to our necks in problems with the Apollo program.
- Like Patsy Kensit, I was up to my neck in oasis.
- The party is up to its neck in a scandal over alleged illegal purloining of confidential police files on rivals.
- Darren comes to stay with Nikki and is quick to get up the nose of everyone he meets.
- Even reading your horoscope can get up your nose.
- I didn't realise it would get up your nose so quickly and so far.
- I took her to my room, so that her feathers wouldn't get up Mum's nose.
- It had got up Rufus's nose a bit, though Adam had a perfect right to do this.
- Many professors turn their noses up at television.
- Time and again he had to turn his nose up into the arch of the drain to keep from drowning.
- This could be the year a lot of politicians find their number is up.
- When my number is up, I want it to be quick.
- Competition prize winners Kathryn Winkler of Dundee, your lucky number is up.
- After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
- Can you find somewhere to offer up a prayer? 36.
- Each morning the strike council opened business by some one offering a prayer.
- So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
- They found him and his sons on the shore offering a sacrifice to Poseidon.
- Again the opening up of public procurement procedures should result in a significant increase in intra-EC trade and industry re-structuring.
- By 1895 she had attained the opening up of Lincoln's Inn Fields to the poor.
- Over the next generation the first phase of the opening up of inland industrial Britain proceeded.
- Searching out high-quality old timber is a big factor in the opening up of pristine forests.
- Taylor said the opening up of opportunities for minorities in television would lead to more opportunities in films.
- The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
- Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.
- A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.
- Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.
- He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.
- However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.
- I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.
- I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.
- Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.
- Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.
- As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.
- The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.
- The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.
- After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.
- But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.
- Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
- As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.
- I picked up the pieces myself.
- In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.
- In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.
- It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.
- Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.
- This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.
- Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.
- The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.
- A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday.
- He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action.
- We used to keep it round Nezzer Eyres's and pick it up on Sundays when we wanted it.
- When they went off the air in the evening, I picked it up on my program.
- After a while, too, some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him.
- But eventually, he plucked up courage to see a solicitor.
- But why not pluck up the courage to do what you've always wanted?
- Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid.
- I think you should pluck up the courage to invite him out.
- Kent suspected that if the fellow ever did pluck up courage to call he would be disappointed.
- Nelly begged me not to leave her, and plucking up courage I stayed.
- On three occasions he had plucked up the courage to call her, but had never had a reply.
- That's true, up to a point.
- And, up to a point, the conventional wisdom is right.
- I could be perfectly reasonable up to a point, but Cynthia Kay had gone too far.
- Planning may be useful, but only up to a point.
- She was, up to a point.
- That is true, but only up to a point.
- The curriculum would follow the classical model, though only up to a point.
- The snorer knows that actual suffering is the lot of some one near and, up to a point, dear.
- Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
- For that reason, he rejected pop-up windows.
- One pleasing exception is the new pop-up menu feature.
- Henry pushed his door open a crack, and pricked up his ears.
- I pricked my ears up on that one.
- I pricked up my ears, and sure enough, the sound was getting louder.
- The boy pricked up his ears, because, as it happened, so they were this earth.
- The horse, scenting home and supper, pricked his ears and stepped out.
- I propped myself up against a wall and took a deep breath.
- The soldier tried to prop himself up again using his crutches.
- Bernice propped herself up and took a bite.
- Brian propped himself up on his elbows, suddenly remembering that the alarm had gone off.
- He props himself up on one elbow.
- Hefinished the last rep and propped himself up on his elbows.
- I could see Peter shaking his head in the fairway, as he propped himself up on his sand wedge.
- Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow, watching.
- She stretched and propped herself up on an elbow, aware that something was not quite right.
- We're full of doubts and we try to prop each other up.
- Anyway, I pull up a chair by the bed and say hello.
- He pulls up a chair as she starts another game.
- He now pulled up a chair and, turning it about, sat on it, his elbows resting on the back.
- Rose, Victorine, Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to.
- She pulls up a stool and sits down next to us, watching intently, still unable to stifle her laughter.
- I felt I had to pull her up on her lateness.
- Our teachers are always pulling us up for wearing the wrong uniform.
- Behind Duvall, Jimmy could see that Barbara was pulling herself to her feet.
- Granny pulled herself to her feet and tottered over to the bench, where Hodgesaargh had left his jar of flame.
- On March 4 she caught hold of the end of her buggy and twice pulled herself to her feet.
- Weary now that the excitement of the film was no longer sweeping her along, she pulled herself to her feet.
- Whitlock pulled himself to his feet and winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- "Where are you staying?" "Carole's putting us up for a couple of days."
- They put me up in the spare room for a few days while I sorted things out.
- By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
- Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
- I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
- I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
- Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
- Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
- The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
- In other days Managers would have put up an argument as to the folly of this approach by Management.
- Dad was bringing up the rear to make sure no one got lost.
- The funeral hearse was followed by cars full of friends, and a company of Life Guards brought up the rear.
- We all followed our guide up the path, Marcus and I bringing up the rear.
- Chivvying the staff of the Villa Russe into the tea room with refreshments, Auguste brought up the rear.
- Four men-at-arms rode alongside, and bringing up the rear was another monk herding a flock of sheep and goats.
- He led the way, followed by an ebullient Christina and Elaine, with James sullenly bringing up the rear.
- He was tired of bringing up the rear in the march of civilization.
- One by one they climbed in, Delaney first, Nell in the middle, with Andrevitch bringing up the rear.
- The unmistakable figure of the immaculate Captain Trentham brought up the rear.
- They fall in beside him and start up the hill to the induction center, the cop bringing up the rear.
- He left the country in December to take up residence in Panama.
- In 1951 he took up residence in Chicago.
- In 1953 Diem took up residence at a monastery in Belgium.
- He's about to take up residence at Hertford College, Oxford.
- He was only a few weeks away from his ninetieth birthday when pneumonia again took up residence in his weary lungs.
- In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden.
- One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche's garden.
- The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir.
- The labs' distant agents are Kurds who have taken up residence in the West.
- They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland.
- He was right up there on Herron Avenue.
- Northampton are right up there in second place.
- Number of sunny days is right up there for me, too.
- On the trauma scale, this was right up there with an automobile wreck.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- We've got a crisis on our hands, and we need to roll up our sleeves and do something about it.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- For Gieves the tailors, the extent to which clients indulged in running up bills regardless had become extremely serious.
- Having run up a debt of over £100,000, they're unlikely to be forgotten by Virgin Records in a hurry.
- He spent 3 months there, running up bills of £30,000, as yet unpaid.
- If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it.
- It became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers.
- Model customers run up bills and pay in installments, with the high interest that makes the business so lucrative.
- The problem of running up debts to pay for the elderly is straight-forward.
- They continue to run up bills and never build equity in their house.
- These performances are part of the run-up to the Center's anniversary celebrations.
- Competition has hit a new high with many attractive offers in the run-up to Christmas.
- Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.
- Doubts about Mr Hague's longevity are not new, but are increasingly damaging in the run-up to an election.
- In the run-up to Christmas, their games are selling faster than ever.
- It said that in the run-up to an election, it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties.
- Recently, they developed a roll of film found in Paul's old camera, taken in the run-up to the fighting.
- Sheila Geddes, Sid Clarke and all the others who had contributed their efforts in the run-up to the launch.
- The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.
- A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.
- His grammar and accent were not up to scratch, and he kept running to the airport.
- So do feel free to change anything that strikes you as not up to scratch.
- That today's pop culture isn't up to scratch?
- The couple told stunned housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs.
- Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog.
- He screwed up his eyes against the light and Jurnet saw the gipsy in him.
- He screwed up his eyes and put his hands over his ears.
- He screwed up his face as the hot water from the kitchen tap scalded his hand.
- He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back.
- She screwed up her face and whispered: you're so revoltingly fat you disgusting baboon.
- But Janice's fear was so great she struggled through two more migraines before screwing up enough courage to try the injection.
- I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson, pretending to be a drama student wanting advice.
- They scrunch up their faces, peering into the haze.
- Stephen King's novels have sent shivers up readers' spines for more than 20 years.
- He kicked her sending shivers up her spine; again she yelped, and everything turned black.
- We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
- He said, following his arrest last fall, that the FBI had set him up.
- Terry and Donald think I set them up, but it's all a big misunderstanding.
- After all, she was the one who'd set herself up as Jett's little helper.
- Everyone thinks he can set himself up as a dramatic critic.
- He set himself up as a one-man cult.
- It's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader.
- Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has, by its own proclamation, set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners.
- She was too young to be setting herself up as the devoted handmaiden to the great man.
- Why do they set themselves up as tradesmen if that's all they're going to do?
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- Crickets set up a racket in trees out in the yard.
- IBM had the market for electric typewriters sewn up.
- For the lawyers have it all sewn up.
- The deal between the wholesaler and manufacturer will have been sewn up only minutes before Sanjay accepted his orders.
- To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough.
- Craig shinned down the rope to where we were standing.
- I locked myself out of the house and had to shinny up a drainpipe to get in.
- We watched as small boys shinned up palm trees and brought coconuts down.
- Boys and girls shinned up trees to 10p off branches.
- But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.
- Dave shinned up a handy conifer.
- He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- No fire-escape, no convenient drainpipe anyone could shin up.
- Nothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.
- The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.
- His brother was eight and spent two days learning how to shinny up to the office.
- The boy panicked and tried more desperately to shinny up the mast.
- But it was his elf face which shot up.
- Fists shot up, some holding dinner pails in the air like flags.
- However, as soon as he struck off one of its heads another two shot up in its place.
- I righted myself and pain shot up my right leg as I put weight on it.
- If interest rates shoot up, stocks and bonds usually fall in price.
- The father nodded, his eyebrows shot up.
- Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them.
- Dr. Rosen closed his downtown practice and set up shop in a suburban neighborhood.
- Jack got his law degree, then set up shop as a real estate lawyer.
- At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting's Alley, which was near the Royal Exchange.
- Each failed when a dispute arose and some group walked out of the union to set up shop down the block.
- My body and the kindly Earth have set up shop against me.
- NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
- S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
- The two Yankees started the business set up shop right where you see it.
- Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
- A moment later, though, and she was bringing herself up short.
- But Blue brings himself up short, realizing that they have nothing really to do with Black.
- However, never bring a preclear up short on this material.
- She has a red face and a manner that pulls people up short.
- This brings us up short at the outset of our study.
- We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.
- He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.
- I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.
- If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.
- Judged by their own standards, they came up short.
- Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.
- Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.
- This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.
- We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
- He might have put up a good show the other day, but that was because he was frightened.
- She put up a better show in the 1980s.
- Just shut up, you two!
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Can't you shut those kids up?
- The only way to shut her up is to give her something to eat.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley.
- Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
- He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder.
- I sat up, wondering what the hell!
- I was still groggy, but I could sit up.
- Léonie sat up straight, tucked her feet to one side, put her hands round her knees.
- They sat up side by side in the bed, naked, listening, but Valerie no longer felt safe.
- I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
- Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
- Smarten up! It's time for inspection.
- Jeremy, go smarten yourself up before dinner.
- She's smartening herself up in the ladies' room.
- Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
- After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.
- Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.
- For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.
- If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?
- Its mosque went up in smoke.
- Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.
- That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.
- Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke.
- A few of these devices should be exploded every year to test whether the refurbishing is working up to snuff.
- It is the kind of work that museums do to conserve their furniture collections and bring their acquisitions up to snuff.
- Semiconductor, software and computer companies slumped in price because of concern that earnings may not be up to snuff.
- As well as soaking up the sun, Emma says she's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City.
- But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax, socialise and soak up the sun.
- Elena Fonti lay on the beach soaking up the sun.
- Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun.
- She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun.
- The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun.
- Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
- Without it, the green machinery that soaks up the sun's energy is starved.
- Maybe we needed to pull our socks up and we are trying to do just that.
- With 16 games to go Oxford have still got time to pull their socks up.
- You're not exactly a young lad any more so you've got to pull your socks up.
- You'll have to learn to speak up for yourself.
- Did they make fun of him for speaking up for the underdog in school?
- Ella Anderson speaks up for tulips.
- Erlend, six years younger, needed some one to speak up for him, sometimes.
- He was to celebrate the inauguration in Florida speaking up for the black voters who feel disenfranchised.
- If those with inside knowledge of the facts didn't speak up for Britain, who the hell would?
- My captor found no reply to this, but luckily a Monster Fish Maiden spoke up for him.
- She identified with them, spoke up for them, tackled situations others had avoided.
- Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person?
- For most newcomers to the rough-and-tumble Big East, it can take some time to get up to speed.
- I called some of my friends and asked them, informally to try to bring the two consultants up to speed.
- It may not be happening fast enough, but the winds of societal change take a while to get up to speed.
- It took the company a year to bring them up to speed.
- Thank you, George W.. Bush, for bringing the majority of voters up to speed.
- To bring consumers up to speed, telephone companies are revving up education campaigns.
- She had been continually up the spout, or over the moon, about some one or something.
- That's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill.
- Our family pulled up stakes every few years when Dad was in the Army.
- Moreover, when a business pulls up stakes or downsizes, an entire program can wither overnight.
- So, he pulled up stakes and moved to Allen County to oversee a farm.
- Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
- I do not want to stand up and be counted as a supporter of those demands.
- Those who admire her should stand up and be counted.
- We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted!
- But Dehlavi takes his time getting up steam, leaving a good 20 minutes of surplus slack in these two hours.
- Cons: Just when the bobsled builds up steam, brakes on the track slow it down.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who is suddenly picking up steam?
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- Do your homework before applying to permanently up sticks.
- He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them.
- I couldn't up sticks and away, which I might have done otherwise - regretting it afterwards.
- Maybe we up sticks and move to another, better part of the country to cool out.
- You will then have the right specimens ready and waiting whenever anyone decides to up sticks and move.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Mahmud may have bought time for himself, but he stored up trouble for his successors.
- She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
- They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
- A thin crack running straight up the wall had appeared.
- At this point, the base of the golf club should point straight up into the air.
- Ben earns $10,000 a month, straight up.
- The rocket shot straight up and exploded overhead.
- The towers of the hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.
- This is your second time at this college, straight up?
- Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room.
- So, if that sounds up your street, get your Peak Performance subscription in soon!
- This sort of thing should be right up your street.
- At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
- Besides, Anna had struck up a conversation with a young girl who'd been swimming in the pool.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship.
- He struck up a conversation, first asking his name.
- He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Alone and friendless, she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Particularly with the Liberals, who struck up a sort of Bucharest-Ettrick Bridge accord.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Shy but cordial friendships were struck up, which Mrs Thomlinson was powerless to prevent or subvert.
- The orchestra struck up a polonaise, the lights strung on trees glistened in the garden, the tables groaned with food.
- This was their task but that sums it up too simply.
- Airlines will have to pick up the tab for new safety regulations.
- Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
- We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.
- He wouldn't pick up the tab for anyone else.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Normally, developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- Thus, port officials argue, the city should have picked up the tab for fixing the recently revealed environmental problems.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- He picked up the thread and followed it.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- They talked non-stop in an elaborate relay race, one picking up the thread as soon as the other paused for breath.
- But instead of throwing up her hands and blaming the problem on organizational chaos, she stepped back and analyzed the situation.
- Davide had seen the priests, who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress's problem.
- Even his most recent wife, Mercedes, had thrown up her hands.
- He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
- Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen.
- Jenny exclaimed to E.. Ames, throwing up her hands.
- Paul Reichmann threw up his hands in protest at the suggestion, but did not utter a sound.
- Then they throw up their hands, wondering why the benefits they have been pursuing never seem to accrue.
- But the docs just gave me the thumbs up.
- East Kilbride celebrates as tyre plant proposal given the thumbs down.
- I can see it now: In toga and laurel wreath, Big Al will give the thumbs up or thumbs down.
- In Grampian, 80 percent. of general practitioners gave it the thumbs down.
- London movie-goers gave Glengarry Glen Ross, about cut-throat estate agents, the thumbs up this week.
- The Dole campaign has not yet given the thumbs up, preferring to wait for the results of Super Tuesday.
- The question, which had been popped earlier on the stadium's electronic scoreboard, got the thumbs up.
- Top analysts gave it the thumbs up and prices took off.
- Sharon has tied herself up in knots worrying about her job.
- "May I speak to Professor Smithers?" "I'm sorry. He's tied up at the moment."
- I'm sorry, he's tied up at the moment. Could you call back later?
- I can't see you tomorrow, I'm tied up all day.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.
- Apart from that, everyone else is tied up with this extraordinary business at the Savoy.
- For many, aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- Some of these are tied up with the conception of crime itself; and will be dealt with in the next section.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The trouble is, he's going to be tied up with all this now.
- His new movie will tie up some of the loose ends from the last one.
- There are still a few loose ends to tie up before we have an agreement.
- Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
- The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
- The blokes all put on frocks, like, an' the chicks get togged up in strides.
- "Have you decided where to go on holiday?'' "Well, it'll be either Portugal or Turkey -- it's a toss-up.''
- I don't know who'll get the job. I guess it's a toss-up between Carl and Steve.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
- Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed, sleeping happily once again, while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room.
- Most girls never drink or smoke, and are tucked up in bed by midnight.
- Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park.
- While the field has changed with rent control nearly quashed, wake up and smell the coffee of a new day.
- Blow up the wall with the explosives. 22.
- Giant red cockroaches walking up the walls, and even an my table.
- He hoped she wouldn't turn fickle when he was half way up the wall.
- Her pillow inched up the wall.
- Such abstract philosophizing drives true poets around the bend, up the wall, and over the top.
- The vine clawed its way up the wall at the end.
- This simplifies fitting around awkward shapes. 2 Lay the vinyl in place with surplus curling up the wall.
- She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.
- Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
- She's all wrapped up warm with this big old coat on.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- A portable vacuum cleaner is most helpful for sand up the wazoo. 2.
- But deep inside there was a brooding that was welling up in him.
- By eight o'clock, when the first pair was due to tee off, the sun was well up in a clear sky.
- Drunken fans whooped it up in the streets.
- Blake was to be wrapped up in this sooty, surreptitious London nearly all his life.
- Each item of information is wrapped up in two lines of the file.
- He said the whole thing could be wrapped up in a week.
- I was wrapped up in an officer's uniform; you couldn't see me for fur and leather.
- On the other hand, I think many of my successes are wrapped up in the same thing.
- The control was wrapped up in some interdependent web.
- The time was past ten, kids were wrapped up in their beds, and parents were probably about to retire themselves.
- It got a lot of airplay from John Peel, and was written up extensively by the music press.
- Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard.
- Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press.
- Results of investigations and the like will need to be written up.
- Several points were discussed; these will be written up more fully in the minutes.
- The incident was written up in the local newspaper.
- The research will be written up as it proceeds, and will be published in 1986.
- Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones, and their errors were written up by the historian.
We walked slowly up the hill. She picked her jacket up off the floor. paths leading up into the mountains Tim had climbed up a tree to get a better view. Put up your hand if you know the answer. The water was getting up my nose. Karen lay on her back, staring up at the ceiling.2in a higher position in a higher place or position OPP down: John’s up in his bedroom. a plane flying 30,000 feet up Her office is just up those stairs. The doctor’s assistant was up a ladder in the stockroom.3to be upright into an upright or raised position: Everyone stood up for the national anthem. Mick turned his collar up against the biting winds.4along in or to a place that is further along something such as a road or path SYN down: She lives just up the street. We walked up the road towards the church.5north in or towards the north: They live up north. We’re driving up to Chicago for the conference. a stormy voyage up the east coast from Miami to Boston6close very close to someone or something: A man came up and offered to buy him a drink.up to She drove right up to the front door.up against The bed was up against the wall.7to more important place used to show that the place someone goes to is more important than the place they start from: Have you been up to London recently?8river towards the place where a river starts OPP down: sailing up the Thames The river steamers only went up as far as Mandalay.9more at or towards a higher level or a greater amount OPP down: Turn up the radio. Violent crime went up by 9% last year. Inflation is up by 2%.up on Profits are up on last year.RegisterIn written English, people often prefer to use rise rather than be/go up, because it sounds more formal:· Violent crime rose by 9% last year.10winning British English beating your opponent by a certain number of points OPP downtwo goals up/three points up etc United were a goal up at half time.11not in bed not in bed: Are the kids still up? They stayed up all night to watch the game. It’s time to get up (=get out of bed). It’s good to see you up and about again (=out of bed after an illness and moving around normally).12finishing used after certain verbs to show that something is completely finished, used, or removed: We’ve used up all our savings. The children had to eat up all their food. After a month, the wound had almost healed up.13cutting/dividing used after certain verbs to show that something is cut, broken etc into pieces or divided into parts: Why did you tear up that letter? We still haven’t decided how to divide up the money.14collecting used after certain verbs to show that things are collected together: Let’s just add up these figures quickly. Could you collect up the papers?15part on top used to say which surface or part of an object should be on top: Put the playing cards right side up. Isn’t that painting the wrong way up?16above a level above and including a certain level, age, or amount: All the women were naked from the waist up. Children aged 12 and up must pay the full fare.17up and down a)backwards and forwards: Ralph paced up and down the room, looking worried. b)if someone is up and down, they sometimes feel well or happy and sometimes do not: Jason’s been very up and down since his girlfriend left him. c)to a higher position and then a lower position, several times: They were all jumping up and down and screaming excitedly. Shivers ran up and down my body.look somebody up and down (=look at someone in order to judge their appearance or character) Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye.18up to something a)as much or as many as a certain amount or number but not more: The Olympic Stadium will hold up to 80,000 spectators. a process that can take anything up to ten days b) (also up till) for the whole of a period until a certain time or date: She continued to care for her father up to the time of his death. We’ve kept our meetings secret up to now. c)[in questions and negatives] clever, good, or well enough to do something: I’m afraid Tim just isn’t up to the job (=he does not have the necessary ability). You don’t need to go back to school if you don’t feel up to it.up to doing something He’s not really up to seeing any visitors. d)if something is up to a particular standard, it is good enough to reach that standard: I didn’t think last night’s performance was up to her usual standard. e) spoken doing something secret or something that you should not be doing: The children are very quiet. I wonder what they’re up to. He knew Bailey was up to something. But what? I always suspected that he was up to no good (=doing something bad).19be up to somebody a)used to say that someone can decide about something: You can pay weekly or monthly – it’s up to you. b)used to say that someone is responsible for a particular duty: It’s up to the travel companies to warn customers of any possible dangers.20finished time if a period of time is up, it is finished: I’m sorry, we’ll have to stop there. Our time is up.21road repairs if a road is up, its surface is being repaired22computer if a computer system is up, it is working OPP down: There could well be a few problems before your new computer is up and running properly.23up against something/somebody having to deal with a difficult situation or opponent: He came up against a lot of problems with his boss. Murphy will be really up against it when he faces the champion this afternoon.24up for something a)available for a particular process: The house is up for sale. This week 14 of Campbell’s paintings were put up for auction. Even the most taboo subjects were up for discussion. b)being considered for election or for a job: Senator Frank Church was coming up for re-election that year. She is one of five candidates up for the chief executive’s job. c)appearing in a court of law because you have been accused of a crime: Ron’s up for drinking and driving next week. d) spoken willing to do something or interested in doing something: We’re going to the pub later – are you up for it?25something is up spoken if something is up, someone is feeling unhappy because they have problems, or there is something wrong in a situation: I could tell by the look on his face that something was up.up with Is something up with Julie? She looks really miserable.what’s up? What’s up? Why are you crying?26be well up in/on something (also be up on something American English) informal to know a lot about something: I’m not all that well up in musical matters. Conrad’s really up on his geography, isn’t he?27be up before something/somebody informal to appear in a court of law because you have been accused of a crime: He was up before the magistrates’ court charged with dangerous driving.28be up to here British English (also have had it up to here) spoken to be very upset and angry because of a particular situation or personup with I’m up to here with this job; I’m resigning!29up the workers!/up the reds! etc British English spoken used to express support and encouragement for a particular group of people or for a sports team30up yours! spoken not polite used as a very rude and offensive reply to someone who has said something that annoys you: · ‘You’re not allowed to park here.’ ‘Up yours, mate!’31somebody is (so) up himself/herself etc informal if you say that someone is up himself or up herself, you mean that they pay too much attention to themselves and what they do or what they look like – used to show disapproval → not be up to much at much2(8)up1 adverb, preposition, adjectiveup2 nounup3 verb
upup2 noun Longman Language Activatormoving up to a higher place
· The car went slowly up the hill.· Lee gets out of breath just going up the stairs.· There's a great view from the top - you should go up and have a look.up to/into/onto/over/at etc · The fire sent clouds of smoke up into the sky.· Don't let the cat jump up onto the table.· We made our way up to the top of the mountain.straight up · Serena was so scared she jumped straight up in the air.up and down · Pain was running up and down both his legs.
also upward American towards a higher position, especially towards the sky: · Alan grabbed hold of the ledge and began to climb upward.· A few snowflakes fell toward the ground, then blew upward with the next gust of wind.· The lighter material floats upwards, carrying heat to the surface of the liquid.
towards a higher position by means of a road or path that goes up a hill: · I don't like cycling uphill.· The children were running uphill towards the house.· Our guide led us uphill along a steep trail.
towards a higher floor in a building by means of stairs: · Lucy came rushing upstairs after her sister.· Don't go upstairs - Mom's still getting dressed.· Flora watched Mrs Brown staggering upstairs with a heavy tray.
if something moves higher and higher , it continues to move towards a higher position in the sky: · The moon rose higher and higher.· The kite went higher and higher into the sky.· I watched as the birds flew higher and higher, grew smaller, and then disappeared.
looking, facing, or pointing upwards also upward American · He held the palms of his hands upward as if he were asking forgiveness.· A copy of the book lay on the table, its cover facing upwards.· All eyes were turned upward toward the man standing on the ledge.
use this to say where someone or something is looking, facing, or pointing: · Caroline looked up and laughed.up at/into/from etc: · The boy turned and stared up at her.· The receptionist hardly looked up from her book when I came in the office.· We stood there for a moment, gazing up into the snow-covered branches of the tree.straight up: · He was pointing his rifle straight up in the air.
if someone or something is lying face-up , they are lying with their face pointing upwards: · Police found the body lying face-up in the hall.· He put all his cards face-up on the table.
to move upwards through the air · Mervyn had never invited her to go up in his little plane.· If you want to make the kite go up, pull the string hard, then release it slowly.
to move straight up into the air: · Hot air rises.rise in/into: · A stream of water rose into the air, arched smoothly, and fell back into the pool.rise up: · Clouds of smoke rose up into the air.
formal to move up through the air: · A huge flock of red-wing blackbirds ascended from their nests along the side of the road.· He leaned out of an upstairs window and felt a current of warm air ascending from the street.
if a bird or a plane climbs , it gradually goes higher up into the sky: · As the plane began to climb, Karen started to feel ill.· The geese climbed high above us and set off on their long journey south.
if an aircraft gains height , it gradually moves higher up into the sky: · Investigators are uncertain why the plane failed to gain height after takeoff.· Gliders use thermal up-currents to gain height.
to suddenly go up into the air very quickly: · Flames shot up into the air and clouds of smoke poured out of the windows.· I saw a spray of white water shoot up into the sky and knew that there were whales nearby.
to go quickly upwards to a great height in the air: soar upwards/up/above/into etc: · The ball soared high into the air.· The snow goose flew down low over the field and then soared back up gracefully.
when something moves upwards into the air · Gunmen started firing at the helicopter as it left the ground.· The plane had barely left the ground when it began to experience engine trouble.
if a plane or a bird takes off , it leaves the ground and start flying: · Some ducks took off and flew along the river.· We had to wait on the runway for a half an hour before we finally took off.take off from: · The president's plane took off from Andrews Air Force Base at 9:45 am.
if a space ship lifts off , it leaves the ground and starts its journey into space: · There was a burst of flame as the rocket lifted off into the sky.· Thousands of people had gathered at Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket lift off.
if a space ship blasts off , it leaves the ground with an explosion of fire and starts its journey into space: · The space shuttle is set to blast off on a nine-day mission tomorrow at 4:18 a.m.
to send a rocket up into the air or into space: launch a rocket/missile/satellite etc: · China is planning to launch a space rocket later this month.· On the first day of the war over 400 missiles were launched.
to move up a slope or upstairs · You have to go up two flights of stairs, and then it's the second door on your right.· Hundreds of people lined the street, cheering the runners as they went up the hill.
to go up a steep slope, especially with a lot of effort: · The old man slowly climbed up the stairs to his room.· We had to climb a pretty big hill to get to the temple.
formal to go up a slope, a ladder, or stairs: · He was turning to ascend the ladder to the engine room when the ship's fire alarm sounded.· Bianca walked regally across the hall and ascended the marble staircase.
when a road or path goes upwards · The road goes up from the beach into the forest.· I could see a tiny track going up ahead of us.
to go up steeply: · The road climbs steadily, reaching 6,000 feet after 18 miles.· The path climbs high into the hills above the village of Glenridding.
when the level of water goes up if the level of water rises , it goes up, especially in a way that causes danger, problems etc: · The level of the water in the lake was rising fast.· In 1956 the river rose to a height of more than 6 metres.· The waves rose higher and higher till the rocks behind them were hidden.· Floodwaters continue to rise as the rain continues to fall.
when the sun or moon comes up into the sky if the sun or the moon rises , it goes above the level of the horizon or it goes further up into the sky: · A full moon rose over the valley.· What time does the sun rise tomorrow morning?· The moon rises nearly an hour later each night.· By midday the sun had risen high in the sky and was burning down on us.
if the sun or the moon comes up , it moves above the level of the horizon: · The moon came up slowly over the pine trees.· The sun was coming up and you could just see the tops of the mountains.
to move a part of your body upwards · She raised her head and looked at him.· If you want to ask a question, please raise your hand first.· "Oh really?" Zack said, raising an eyebrow.
to raise part of your body such as your arm or your leg, especially carefully or with effort: · Her shoulder muscles had become so weak that she could not lift her arms.lift up something: · It took him a great deal of effort just to lift up his arm a few inches.lift something up: · OK, now lift your right leg up as far as it will go.
to raise your hand or arm: put up something: · I gasped and put up a hand to cover my mouth.· He swore at us and put up his fists as if he was going to punch one of us.put something up: · Rachel put both her hands up to shield her eyes from the sun.
to move up in a list · With this win Williams moves up to third place in the world rankings.move up something · FC Roma are slowly moving up the league table.
to gradually move up in a list or group of people, teams, records etc: · Hobson's novel has risen steadily up the bestseller list since it's release last August.rise to: · Borland rose to the top of the computer software industry by a mixture of innovation and good marketing.
to move up in a list of teams, records etc, especially a long way up the list: climb to: · Jennifer Lopez's new single has climbed to number two in the US charts.climb the table/charts etc: · Towards the end of the season Benfica suddenly climbed the league table and finished third.
to move up very quickly in a list of people, teams, records etc: shoot up in: · Since the debate Robertson has shot up in the polls.shoot up something: · The new detective series quickly shot up the TV ratings.
to start to be successful if a product, company, your job etc takes off , it suddenly starts being successful: · Her singing career took off after an appearance on Johnny Carson's "Tonight' show in America.· Before you knew it, 11 companies had settled here, and the place really took off.
to be becoming richer, more successful etc: · He's not that famous a musician at the moment, but he's definitely on the way up.· starter homes for young couples on the way up
: up-and-coming artist/player/executive etc an artist, player etc, especially a young one, who is getting more and more successful and who will probably soon be famous: · Many up-and-coming young players have trials for the national football team.· an award for the best up-and-coming comic actress
if you say that a person or company is going places , you mean that they are already achieving success and will probably be even more successful in the future: · Alvin was part of it all now. Only 24, and he was going places.· This company is clearly one that is going places.
British to be getting more successful all the time: · A gliding club that started in a local farmer's barn says business is on the up and up.· We lost at Oxford, but since then we've been on the up and up and won our last four games.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She decided to put the baby up for adoption. We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. We’re all going out to get bevvied up. Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. The presenter gave her a big build-up. He got his call-up papers in July. I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. A great cheer went up from the crowd. Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image. Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease. He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme. I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). a stand-up comic Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. We cranked up the volume. I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). Anna got fed up with waiting. Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce. You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. a politician climbing up the greasy pole The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) The pressure at work continued without any let-up. This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game). The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones. Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? The Houston Astros have notched up another win. I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. A team of volunteers were putting up posters. He built up a good rapport with the children. She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up. The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates. Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere. My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls. The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. up-to-date kitchen equipment The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.
· During his stay in England, he had picked up an English accent.
She decided to put the baby up for adoption. (=one that suddenly appears on your computer screen when you are looking at a website)· You can buy software that blocks unwanted pop-up advertisements.
We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. (=that you have tried not to show)· Her voice shook with suppressed anger.
(=find a way of dealing with a problem)· The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.
(=with a lot of buildings close together)· New development will not be allowed outside the existing built-up area.
· They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.
(=try to sell something at an auction) This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction.
This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction. (=to get an award – used especially in news reports)· Angelina Jolie scooped up the award for best actress.
Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? (=starts playing)· We were on the dance floor waiting for the band to strike up.
The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. (=find one)· You can often pick up a bargain at an auction.
· Some kids have erected emotional barriers that stop them from learning.
We’re all going out to get bevvied up. (=pay for something, especially when you do not want to)· Taxpayers will probably have to foot the bill.
(=use a lot of something so that you have a big bill to pay)· It’s easy to run up a big bill on your mobile phone.
Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. (=tie it to something so that it stays in one place)· You can tie up the boat to that tree.· How much does it cost to moor a boat here?
The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. (=for washing the dishes in)· a plastic washing-up bowl
(=catch one)· He seems to pick up every bug going.
(=form a clear idea about someone or something) We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened.
We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened. The presenter gave her a big build-up. (also erect a building formal)· They keep pulling down the old buildings and putting up new ones.
· The bank gave me a loan to help me set up in business.
· When you’re starting a business, you have to work longer hours.
· He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.
(=fasten it)· He quickly did up the buttons on his shirt.
· I added the cost up on a calculator.
He got his call-up papers in July. (=use up the calories you have eaten)· Even walking will help you to burn up calories.
(=make a camera ready to use)· The team set up their cameras some distance from the animals.
(=put up your tents and arrange the camping place)· The soldiers set up camp outside the city.
(=put forward a candidate)· Any member may nominate a candidate.
(=stops)· Why’s that police car pulling up here?
I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. (=move a chair nearer someone or something)· Pull up a chair and look at these pictures.
(also rise from your chair formal)· He got up from his chair and walked to the window.
(=get up quickly)· ‘Look at the time!’ she cried, jumping up from her chair.
(=not accept or use an opportunity)· Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!
· Sometimes we go to the cinema or just meet up for a chat.
(=make one)· Why not draw up a checklist of things you want to achieve this year?
A great cheer went up from the crowd. especially British English, raise a child especially American English· The cost of bringing up a child has risen rapidly.
· One in four children is growing up in poverty.
· Michael built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide.
(=support it)· They challenged him to back up his claims with evidence.
Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image.· The music was getting louder and building up to a climax.
(=turn a key to keep it working)· It was one of those old clocks that you have to wind up.
Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease.· Austria's ruling government coalition collapsed.
He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. (=create one)· The syndicate decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members.
We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.· He gradually built up a collection of plants from all over the world.
I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). (=performances with one person telling jokes alone)· He developed a stand-up comedy act.
a stand-up comic (=give one continuously)· Attenborough kept up a running commentary on the animals' movements.
· They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
· The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
· Two years later he started his own software company.
(=make it start working)
· My computer takes ages to start up in the morning.
(=is working again after stopping working)
(=gradually increase it)· When you’ve had an accident, it takes a while to build up your confidence again.
(=explain something more clearly)· The chairman said that he would try to clear up the confusion.
Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. (=write one)· The American constitution was drafted in 1787.
· Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.
(=write one)· The two sides drew up a contract.
(=made in case the original is lost)· Be sure you regularly make back-up copies of your data.
· The new tax will increase the cost of owning a car.
· The cost of electricity has risen again.
· A National Radio and Television Council was established to regulate the market.
(=make yourself feel brave)· Summoning all her courage, she got up to see what the noise was.
(=try to find it)· He was trying to pluck up the courage to end their relationship.
We cranked up the volume. (=to allow someone to treat you badly)· I’m not going to take any more of this crap!
I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. (=goes away in different directions)· Seeing there would be no more entertainment, the crowd began to disperse.
(=make a crowd go away in different directions)· A few warning shots were fired in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
(=fix new curtains at a window)· She was standing on a ladder hanging some new curtains.
I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. (also amass debts formal) (=borrow more and more money)· At that time he was drinking a lot and running up debts.
(also keep pace with demand) (=satisfy the demand)· Public funding for higher education has not kept up with demand.
(=prevent it from continuing)· Police moved in to break up the demonstration.
(=think of or suggest one)· We asked the architect to come up with another design.
· He got up from his desk to welcome the visitors.
· If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
British English informal (=with a lot of good food)· Mum always makes a slap-up dinner for me when I go home.
I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. (=write one)· Always write a rough draft of your essay first.· He drew up a draft of the club’s rules and regulations.
· Local authorities have drawn up new plans for waste disposal.
· The European Communities were drawing up proposals to control the export of chemicals.
· They drew up a list of suitable candidates for the job.
· A committee of teachers has drawn up guidelines for schools on how to deal with difficult students.
· Environmental organizations have been involved in drawing up the report.
· Some people draw up a contract when they get married.
· They haven’t yet drawn up a timetable for the elections.
· A small team has drawn up a programme of action.
(=set of laws and principles that govern a country)· The first Czech constitution was drawn up here in 1920.
(=plan of how to spend the money that is available)· Each year business managers draw up a budget.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). (=start doing a new job)· Neale has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1.
· Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
(=the period of time before an election)· There have been violent street protests in the run-up to the elections.
(=emotions that someone feels but does not express)· Crying can release pent-up emotions.
(=deliberately try to make people have strong feelings)· His speech roused the crowd and stirred up their emotions.
· She built her clothing empire from one small shop to an international chain.
British English, gun an engine American English (=make an engine go very fast)· As the lights turned green, Chris gunned the engine and we surged forward.
(=be very enthusiastic and keen to do something)· She came back from the course fired up with enthusiasm.
· It’s about time that we started cleaning up the environment.
· The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
(=be respected or admired more or less by someone)
(=cause something)· His assassination was one of the events that led to the First World War.
(=use someone as a good example of something)· He was held up as an example to the younger athletes.
· I made up some excuse about my car breaking down.· We’d better think up an excuse, fast.
· Do some warm-up exercises before lifting heavy weights.
(=be as good as someone hoped or expected)· The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
· Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
(=become excited)· His eyes lit up when I mentioned the word money.
(=make-up that you put on your eyelids or eyelashes)· She never leaves the house without lipstick and eye make-up.
(=they start to look happy)· Denise’s face lit up when she heard the news.
(=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)· Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.
Anna got fed up with waiting.· The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
· I must have made a mistake when I added up the figures.
Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce.· He and Matthew struck up a friendship.
(=put fuel in a vehicle's fuel tank)· Before leaving, I filled up with fuel at the local petrol station.
British English informal (=completely full) The filing cabinet was full to bursting.
The filing cabinet was full to bursting.· They have set up a fund to build a memorial to all those who died.
British English (=that you rent to keep a car or goods in)· They kept the car in a lock-up garage round the corner.
· She had bought and wrapped gifts for children in hospital.
(=stop having a romantic relationship)
You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. (=start playing golf)· He took up golf as a way of getting more exercise.
a politician climbing up the greasy pole (=the members decide not to play together anymore)· The group split up because of ‘musical differences’.
The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. (=deliberately try to cause arguments or bad feelings between people)· Right-wing parties tried to stir up hatred and exploit racial tension.
· Can you turn the heating down a bit?
Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. (=in a powerful position) someone high up in the CIA
someone high up in the CIA The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? (=stop hoping)· After so long without any word from David, Margaret was starting to lose hope.
The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. (=build a house, especially when it seems very quick)· I think they’ve ruined the village by putting up these new houses.
informal (=decorate it)· We’ve been doing up the house bit by bit since we first moved in.
(=think of an idea)· He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.
(=be as good as you think something should be)· The regime is not living up to its supposed democratic ideals.
(=be like the image you have presented of yourself)· He has certainly lived up to his wild rock-star image.
(=improve your image after it has been damaged)· The pop star promised to clean up his image after he was released from prison.
· They saw their income rise considerably over the next few years.
(=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.
(=make inflation worse)· The increase in food prices is fuelling inflation.· There are now fears that price rises will push up inflation.
(=start it)· Police launched an inquiry yesterday after a man was killed by a patrol car.
(=a more detailed interview after you have been successful in a previous interview)· She was asked back for a second interview.
(=accept someone's invitation)· I decided to take them up on their invitation to dinner.
(=say an issue should be discussed)· Some important issues were raised at the meeting.
(also an issue arises formal) (=people started to discuss it)· The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.
joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) (=continue to work hard and well)
(=try to have the same new impressive possessions that other people have)
· He climbed the ladder up to the diving platform.
· Be careful going down the ladder!
· Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.
(=put the laundry outside on a line to dry)· My mother was hanging out the laundry in the sun.
(=tidy away fallen leaves using a brush)· Jack was sweeping leaves in the back garden.
(=continue something that has stopped for a short time) Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.
Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.· I used all my leave in the summertime.
(=developed over time)· The legend of his bravery grew after he killed the dragon.
The pressure at work continued without any let-up.· The level of unemployment has increased.
· Lightning lit up the room briefly.
This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).· Could you make a list of any supplies we need?
The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones.· They’re not allowed to wear make-up to school.
(=be wearing make-up)· She had no make-up on.
· She rarely uses make-up.
(also apply make-up formal)· Gloria watched her mother put on her make-up.
(=put on make-up)· I’ll do your make-up for you, if you want.
(also remove make-up formal)· Take off eye make-up gently, using a cotton ball.
(=put a little more make-up on after some has come off)· She went into the bathroom to touch up her makeup.
(=accidentally rub it so that it spreads to areas where you do not want it)· Grace wiped her eyes, smudging her make-up.
(=a lot of make-up)· a girl in high heels and heavy make-up
· She was wearing far too much eye make-up.
(=make-up that actors wear in plays)· the elaborate stage make-up for ‘The Lion King’
(=very thick make-up worn by actors)· His face was covered by thick pancake makeup.
(=someone whose job is to put make-up on actors, people appearing on television etc)· the chief make-up artist on the film
(=ends because of disagreements)· Liz’s marriage broke up after only eight months.
British English informal (=a good meal)· Jennie cooked us a slap-up meal.
Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. (=be doing things that cause trouble or damage)· The children were lively and always up to mischief.
(also make mischief) (=do things that cause trouble or damage)· You spend too much time getting into mischief!
(=get rid of a misunderstanding)· I want to talk to you, to try and clear up any misunderstandings.
I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. (=become more and more successful)· The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
· She had saved up enough money to buy a car.
(=keep morale high)· It was becoming difficult to keep up the morale of the troops.
(also ascend a mountain formal)· Carrie and Albert went up the mountain, neither of them speaking as they climbed.
He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. (=make them stronger)· If you strengthen the muscles in your back you are less likely to have back problems.
Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. (=starts)· A number of myths have grown up about their relationship.
Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? (=one that curves up at the end)· She had big eyes and a turned-up nose.
The Houston Astros have notched up another win. (=write down what your notes say, using full sentences and more detail)· It’s a good idea to write up your notes soon after a lecture.
(=add several numbers together)· Write all the numbers down, then add them up.
· The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
(also enter an occupation formal) (=start doing one)· Many of his colleagues have taken up another occupation.· Our recent graduates have entered a wide range of occupations.
British English (=accept someone's offer)· I might take him up on his offer.
· The course also provides an opportunity to study Japanese.
· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
(=choose an option)· America was persuaded not to take up the option of military action.
(=continue to do something or happen as quickly as before)· China's society is transforming but can it keep up the pace?
(=do something as fast as something else is happening or being done)· It’s essential that we constantly update our skills and keep up with the pace of change.
I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. (=it ends and people go home)· The party broke up a little after midnight.
I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. (=be able to make regular payments)· He was having trouble meeting the interest payments.
· Liverpool put in a marvellous performance in the second half.
(=prepare one)· They are drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Archbishop.
· She stopped to fill up with petrol.
We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. (=gradually get an idea of what something is like)· Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
· The city authorities have abandoned their plans to host the Super Bowl.
(=think of a plan)· The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.
(=make a detailed plan, especially after considering something carefully)· He devised a daring plan to steal two million dollars.· The company has already drawn up plans to develop the site.
If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. (=start doing a job)· Woods took up a new position as managing director of a company in Belfast.
(=make a new opportunity available)· His recent performance opens up the possibility for him to compete in the Olympic Games.
(=start a new job)· She will take up her new post next month.
A team of volunteers were putting up posters.· No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.
(also fill a prescription American English) (=give a patient the drugs that a doctor says they need)· You can get the prescription made up at a chemist's.
(=keep pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· She kept up the pretence that her husband had died in order to claim the insurance money.
(=stop pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· Maria had abandoned any pretence of having faith of any kind long ago.
· When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.
(=increases quickly by a large amount)· The price of oil soared in the 1970s.
· Manufacturers have had to put their prices up.
· Pre-tax profits were up 21.5%.
(=organize it)· $30 million would be required to set up the project.
(=think of one)· The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.
· A committee of experts drew up proposals for a constitution.
· I think the quality has gone down over the years.
British English (=end it)· The brothers eventually patched up their quarrel.
(=make it quieter or louder)· Can you turn your radio down a bit?
He built up a good rapport with the children. (also the rate rises/increases more formal)· The crime rate just keeps going up.
· If the banks raise interest rates, this will reduce the demand for credit.
(=realize what is happening or real)· Well, they need to wake up to reality.
She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. (=make them recover more quickly)· She believes that a holiday would speed my recovery.
Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year.· The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.
(=be as good as people say it is)· New York certainly lived up to its reputation as an exciting city.
(=resist someone or something)· If the rest of us are agreed, I don’t think he’ll put up much resistance.
(=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)· His contract is coming up for review.
The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up.· Further downstream the river has dried up completely several times in recent years.
The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up (=a very angry row)· That night there was a stand-up row among the four kidnappers.
(=make them stricter)· The EU has tightened the rules on the quality of drinking water.
· Sales rose by 9% last year.
· Peasants managed their land as skilfully as some people higher up the social scale.
· Some farmers prospered and moved up the social scale.
We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. (=be found to have faults when examined)· Such arguments do not stand up to careful scrutiny.
Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem (=their value increases)· The company’s shares rose 5.5p to 103p.
(=fastened with laces)· He bought a pair of brown leather lace-up shoes.
The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates.· The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish.
(=with your back straight)· Sit up straight at the table, Maddie.
Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. (=sleep after not having enough sleep)· I suggest you try and catch up on some sleep.
I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere.· We are working together to find the best solution we can.
(=go faster)· The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.
(=keep them feeling happy)· He wrote home often, trying to keep his family’s spirits up.
(=start doing it)· I took up the sport six years ago.
My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. (=be good enough)· Her work was not up to standard.
· I had spent a lot of time looking up at the stars as a kid.
(also erect a statue formal) (=put it in a public place)· They put up a statue of him in the main square.· They should erect a statue to you for doing that.
I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. (=starts)· That night, a storm blew up.
(=starts)· In 1895 a diplomatic storm blew up between Britain and America over Venezuela.
· She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
(=make yourself stronger)· You need to build up your strength.
(=deliberately start talking about it)· You brought the subject up, not me.
(=people start talking about it)· The subject of payment never came up.
(=think of something to suggest)· We’ve come up with five suggestions.
(=appears at the beginning of the day)· As the sun rises, the birds take flight.
· The diver had nearly used up his supply of oxygen.
(=get people’s support by making an effort)· Both sides have been drumming up support through the internet.
(=increase it)· Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.
He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls.· She stood up from her chair and left the table.
The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. (=tears come into their eyes)· She broke off, feeling the tears welling up in her eyes.
· As soon as she got home, she picked up the telephone and dialled his number.
(=make it louder or quieter)· Rory had turned the television up so loud that the people next door complained.
· These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
British English (=when all the different parts of a plan or situation are considered together, so that it has better results)· The media has criticized the lack of joined-up thinking in the government’s plans for dealing with a terrorist attack.
We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. (=used to say that the time allowed for something has finished)· Time’s up, class. Put your pens down and hand your papers to the front.
· If you listen to the show, you’ll pick up some really useful gardening tips.
(=start talking about it)· It’s still a very difficult topic to raise.
· Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.
(=large vehicles used for particular purposes) His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.
His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. (=type a copy of something written by hand, in note form, or recorded) I went home to type up the report.
I went home to type up the report. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. (=to give someone all the newest information about something) Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion.
Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion. up-to-date kitchen equipment (=to make something more modern) The old system should be brought up to date.
The old system should be brought up to date. The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. (also a vacancy arises/occurs formal) (=there is a vacancy)· A vacancy has arisen on the committee.
· The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.
Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? (=in the top or bottom half of your body) Lota was paralysed from the waist down.
Lota was paralysed from the waist down. Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). British English I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall.
I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall. Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. (=achieve a win)· Escude has now notched up three consecutive wins over him.
(also the wind gets up British English) (=becomes stronger)· The rain beat down and the wind was picking up.
It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. (=open or shut the window in a car)· Lucy rolled the window down and waved to him.
(=try to find it in a book)· I looked the word up in my dictionary.
She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.· The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► have an ace up your sleeve► back somebody/something ↔ up► back somebody/something ↔ up► beat somebody ↔ up► beat yourself up► big up (to/for) somebody► big it up► somebody’s blood is up► blow something ↔ up► blow something ↔ up► boil something ↔ up► pull/haul yourself up by your bootstraps► bottoms up!► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break somebody up► bring somebody up short/with a start► buck up!► build something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build up somebody’s hopes► be bunged up► burn something ↔ up► burn somebody up► burn something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► call something ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call something ↔ up► camp it up► have another card up your sleeve► chalk it up to experience► cheer something ↔ up► choke something ↔ up► choke somebody up► churn something ↔ up► churn something ↔ up► clean something ↔ up► clear something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close up/up close/close to► coming (right) up!► wrap somebody (up) in cotton wool► cough something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► something is not all/everything it’s cracked up to be► take up the cudgels (on behalf of somebody/something)► cut something ↔ up► cut somebody/something ↔ up► cut somebody ↔ up► be badly cut up► look/feel like death warmed up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do yourself up► draw yourself up (to your full height)► draw something ↔ up► pull up the drawbridge► dress something ↔ up► be drugged up to the eyeballs► be up to your ears in work/debt/problems etc► eat something ↔ up► be eaten up with/by jealousy/anger/curiosity etc► be up to your eyes in something► up to the/your eyeballs in something► drugged/doped up to the eyeballs► put up a good fight► fill yourself (up)/fill your face► fill somebody up► put two fingers up at somebody► finish something ↔ up► first up► go up in flames/burst into flames► foul something ↔ up► in (the) front/up front► fuck somebody ↔ up► make a fuss/kick up a fuss (about something)► the game’s up► gather somebody to you/gather somebody up► pick up/take up the gauntlet► gee somebody ↔ up► gee up!► give something ↔ up► give up something► give something/somebody ↔ up► give somebody ↔ up► give it up for somebody► grow up!► be up a gum tree► be gunged up with something► be gunked up (with something)► hang something ↔ up► hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc► heads up!► get/build up a head of steam► hold something ↔ up► hold somebody/something ↔ up► hold up something► hook somebody up with something► be hung-up about/on something► hurry somebody/something up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► be up with the lark► laugh up your sleeve► lay something ↔ up► lead somebody up the garden path► make up leeway► lever yourself up► light something ↔ up► light something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► line somebody/something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► liven something ↔ up► lock something ↔ up► lock somebody ↔ up► look something ↔ up► look somebody ↔ up► be made up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► be made up to captain/manager etc► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make somebody ↔ up► somebody’s make-up► not up to the mark► match somebody/something ↔ up► match up to somebody’s hopes/expectations/ideals etc► mess something ↔ up► mess something ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► make up your mind/make your mind up► up north► somebody’s number comes up► be one up (on somebody)/get one up on somebody► open something ↔ up► open something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► be penned up/in► turn up like a bad penny► pick something/somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pile something ↔ up► go piss up a rope!► play something ↔ up► play (somebody) up► play (somebody) up► pop-up restaurant/bar/shop etc► prick (up) its ears► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put up something► put something up► put somebody ↔ up► put up or shut up► ring something ↔ up► roll a window up► roll up!► come out of something/come up smelling of roses► be coming up roses► rub somebody up the wrong way► run something ↔ up► run something ↔ up► screw something ↔ up► screw somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody up► set somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► shape up or ship out► take/put up with shit (from somebody)► shoot somebody/something ↔ up► show something ↔ up► show somebody ↔ up► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► sign somebody ↔ up► sit somebody up► take up/pick up the slack► split something ↔ up► square up to somebody/something► stack something ↔ up► stand somebody up► step something ↔ up► stick 'em up► stoke something ↔ up► stoke up something► stoke up on/with something► stop something ↔ up► straighten something ↔ up► suck it up► sum something ↔ up► sum something ↔ up► sum somebody/something ↔ up► sweep somebody ↔ up► take something ↔ up► take something up► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take something ↔ up► tart yourself up/get tarted up► tear up an agreement/contract etc► tear it up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► tie somebody ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► not have much up top► somebody is up to their (old) tricks► tune something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► a turn-up for the book(s)► Wait up!► warm-ups► wash something ↔ up► put the wind up somebody/get the wind up► wind something ↔ up► wind somebody ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► work up enthusiasm/interest/courage etc► work up an appetite/a thirst/a sweat► work somebody up► work something ↔ up► go up/come down in the world► wrap something ↔ up► the wrong way up
1ups and downs informal the mixture of good and bad experiences that happen in any situation or relationship: - We had a lot of ups and downs in our marriage.
- Eachuinn Odhar had his ups and downs, but more downs than ups.
- If you're prepared to take a five-year view, these ups and downs are worth enduring.
- Most older people cope with the ups and downs of their daily lives.
- Relearning is a longer, gradual process with ups and downs and it is too easy just to give up.
- There have been ups and downs of course.
- There have been ups and downs, yes, but on the whole my fortunes have grown.
- We need to hold tenaciously to our commitment to talk over the ups and downs of our days.
- All in all, it can only mean that tea time is on the up and up.
- I have my fingers crossed, but my own finances may be on the up.
- No. 1 is on the Up side, No. 2 is on the Down side and so on alternately.
- The worrying thing is that raids by customs and the Obscene Publications Squad are on the up.
- Which raises a further question, whether these activities are on the up too.
- A gliding club that started in a local farmer's barn says business is on the up and up.
- We lost at Oxford, but since then we've been on the up and up and won our last four games.
- There were a few things in his story that didn't add up.
- Why had she left the note? It just didn't add up.
- Although these sonatas do not add up to music of enormous consequence, Schultz and Schenkman bestow royal treatment upon them.
- His promises do not add up.
- Now at first glance these figures do not add up.
- The Opposition can not add up.
- The Racal twins: their share prices just do not add up Outlook.
- The right hon. Gentleman's priorities do not add up and he knows it.
- They were suspicious about my past, my age and a picture of me that simply did not add up.
- Still, it all adds up to an interesting polemic.
- Twenty hours, $ 14m and 33 actors-it all adds up to..
- A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.
- And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?
- At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
- Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.
- In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
- What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
- I might be going on a training course next week, but it's still up in the air.
- Our trip to Orlando is still up in the air.
- They still haven't said if I've got the job -- it's all up in the air at the moment.
- But they were up in the air, and they were moving.
- If I don't work to a routine then I feel everything is up in the air!
- It was wonderful to be up in the air and to feel the air swishing past his face.
- When he was up in the air he was engaged, his spirits prospered and his intellect was keener than a needle.
- It's all up for you then.
- The job sounds right up your alley.
- She said, I will tell you this Bobby Kennedy is right up my alley.
- Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.
- Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.
- Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.
- Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.
- Palmer's contribution was to up the ante.
- Sometimes the parents upped the ante.
- The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.
- The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
- What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.
- For now, I can keep up appearances and still go to the same restaurants as my friends.
- Of course, he tries to keep up appearances, but he lives entirely off borrowed money.
- She put Christmas decorations in the window just to keep up appearances.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Pine Valley residents are up in arms about plans to build a prison in the area.
- Residents are up in arms about plans for a new road along the beach.
- And already fans are up in arms.
- But it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it.
- Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room.
- John Adams decided that everyone but Episcopalians was up in arms against the new tax law.
- Mavis Bramley was up in arms about the woman from Oldham.
- The association's members were up in arms.
- Those people would be up in arms.
- Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report.
- He treats everyone like children, and that's why he puts people's backs up.
- It really gets my back up when salesmen call round to the house.
- At Eagle Butte I stopped and got a clamp, got the pipe back up there some way.
- He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone's back up.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- She'd even got Bert's back up proper, over his betting and poor old Floss.
- Simon naturally put people's backs up.
- You got to get back up.
- We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
- You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
- Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
- Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
- However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
- In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
- People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
- They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
- I used to beat up on my brothers when we were kids.
- Everybody beat up on him because he made the team.
- She's never going to get anywhere if she tries to beat up on males, especially a catch like me.
- There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.
- They just love beating up on architects.
- Tim's business went belly up in 1993.
- Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.
- Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.
- Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
- This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.
- The issue was blown far out of proportion.
- It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.
- Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.
- Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.
- But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
- Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
- Liable blow up in their faces.
- Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.
- Nothing of its kind had ever been done before, and it could have blown up in his face.
- When the clothes iron blows up in your face.
- I'm all booked up this week, but I can see you on Monday.
- Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that.
- But all flights were booked up.
- His courses in Wengen and Tignes can be booked up through Supertravel: 01-584 5060.
- Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre.
- So it's no surprise that a safety seminar for women was booked up within days of being announced.
- Because the Saints gave an economic boost to the young state, Illinoisans at first greeted them congenially.
- Cally had been intimidated by the occasion and Jen wanted to give her a boost.
- Fishing industry lands a big boost Scarborough's fishing industry has been given a big boost thanks to shoals of scallops.
- He says the government's turnaround on interest and exchange rate policies should give an extra boost to Christmas trading too.
- His defeat gives a further boost to Mr Kinnock's already overriding executive majority.
- It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him, and it made her actions easy.
- This will give a further boost to the economy.
- This will help to cut pollution and save energy and give a valuable boost to the housing market.
- Jim's too bound up in his own worries to be able to help us.
- The history of music is, of course, bound up with the development of musical instruments.
- All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.
- Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.
- Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
- Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright.
- More usually, the body was bound up in a folded position, with the knees under the chin.
- The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
- These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
- A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
- According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.
- But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.
- Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
- It is bound up with the family as a whole.
- The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
- This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
- Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
- Although it was cold and the air was running out, she was burning up.
- In the on-line world, customers were burning up the lines.
- In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day.
- Think about the calories you are burning up - 200 for every 30 minute walk!
- We get caught up in the commercial aspects of Christmas.
- And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
- I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
- I thought at one time it might be caught up in the Christmas post.
- Kenetech got caught up in that.
- Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.
- Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.
- Some of these girls get caught up in this freedom idea.
- When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.
- Keep your chin up! We'll get through this together!
- Gwen finally told her troubled son to clean up his act or get out of her house.
- She told her son to clean up his act or move out.
- Tish has really cleaned up her act - she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more.
- But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.
- Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act.
- Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering.
- Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.
- Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
- More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.
- Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act.
- The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.
- Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years.
- Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
- A few companies closed up shop in California.
- And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
- At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good.
- A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
- Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.
- It sometimes comes on in the open air.
- It sounded good, it felt good to say, it made lights come on in my mouth.
- Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open.
- Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.
- Suddenly, all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in.
- Sure, I said, come on over.
- Alison's birthday is coming up.
- Don't forget you've got exams coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
- Don't forget you have a test coming up on Thursday.
- I'm pretty busy right now -- I have exams coming up next week.
- Our 12th annual Folk Festival is coming up again soon.
- With Christmas coming up, we didn't have much spare money.
- Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.
- Gripping the over head chrome rail, he stooped forward as if to see what street was coming up.
- Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct.
- Some faces shone white in the moonlight that was coming up behind a copse.
- The sun was coming up as we drove away from Sobey's.
- The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
- The wind was coming up and there was weather to port. ` Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes.
- When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time.
- BUndeterred, the group is revising its proposal and plans to contest every license that comes up for review.
- At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
- It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
- A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
- He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
- Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
- High ranking military men were covering up for the murderers.
- And start covering up for them.
- By lying and covering up for her husband, the wife provides negative reinforcement for his violence.
- Heaven only knows what else you've done that Paige has covered up for.
- The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted.
- All those crack shits shooting up the streets?
- It nearly cracked me up and he could see what it did to me.
- It used to crack me up.
- It was funny, he cracked me up last night.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- Most of the humor consists of watching Shore crack himself up with his own Valley garble.
- The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up.
- I'll really be up the creek if I don't get paid this week.
- Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek.
- What he learned from that interview was that Graham Ross was up the creek without a paddle.
- But he can cut up rough and turn a bit nasty if he's got a mind to.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- Some recent columns have gotten readers' dander up.
- I paint her face and do her hair.
- I said, I did, I was approached about who does your hair?
- It's to do with the hair.
- Now, do you want me to do your make-up, or not?
- One test of our response to the change made by age is what we decide to do about grey hair.
- She said that the day of the wedding, she should do my hair first.
- The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.
- Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.
- Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.
- He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
- He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.
- I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.
- Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.
- The guest room's two doors down the corridor.
- The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.
- I still half expect the food to be doped.
- In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury.
- Kerr-McGee charged she was doped up with Quaaludes.
- Everything that can be dragged up as a skeleton on Mugabe and his underlings must be dragged up.
- Her frozen limbs were dragged up an impressively wide staircase and then along a hallway.
- I assume a lot of people will laugh at Morrissey for this and the Glastonbury thing will be dragged up again.
- The whale will be dragged up its main ramp and butchered.
- In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
- Marshall drew up a chair for her.
- Mr Browning drew up a chair for her, as nice as could be, and sat down himself.
- When they reached the cafe, Zeinab drew up a chair beside Hargazy.
- He drew his knees up, preparing himself to fight off any further attack.
- Paige drew her knees up inside the bag, resting her chin on them.
- Now, remember the elegant woman, always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
- It helped them keep their end up in battle, too, claim historians.
- It is difficult to get skips in this age group capable of keeping their end up at this level of competition.
- Richter kept his end up by arranging a press visit to Huemul Island on 21 June, 1951.
- Stein is up to his eyebrows in debt.
- He fell across the wall, twisting, face up.
- If convicted, they face up to a year in jail and up to a $ 2, 500 fine.
- If found guilty, he could face up to two years in jail.
- It took time until she could face up to it.
- Sabit Brokaj of the Socialist Party faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
- We must face up to this.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and hold them as high as possible.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times.
- But at the rear, in his camels-hair coat, filling up a comer with his huge body, he was standing.
- Fast cars drink petrol, and if you don't fill up often, your roses will become stranded with empty tanks.
- From where Nathan was sitting, in a chapel adjacent to the altar, he could hear the cathedral filling up.
- He can fill up the lane, earn his minutes and his keep just by being big.
- The doc says her lungs are all filled up with water.
- The space between them was filling up with unasked and unanswered questions.
- To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
- Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
- Well, at least put your feet up for a few minutes. Would you like a drink?
- When you're pregnant and doing a full-time job, you must find time to put your feet up.
- E for elevation, otherwise known as putting your feet up.
- He pushed the ottoman over and I put my feet up.
- He says it gave him time to put his feet up and relax.
- Take off your coat and put your feet up.
- Tammuz had dimmed the lights, put his feet up, and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen.
- That boy needs a lot of teaching, he thought, putting his feet up.
- Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes.
- He's always up front and willing to admit his mistakes.
- I paid the builders £100 up front and will give them the rest when the job's finished.
- I told you up front that I didn't want to be in a relationship with anyone.
- Karen is always very up front with her boyfriends.
- The company's directors have been surprisingly up front about their financial problems.
- The only people who laughed were the American soldiers who sat up front.
- We've got to have the money up front before we can do anything.
- We've had so many unpaid bills that we've started to demand payment up front.
- Why don't you sit up front with the driver so you can give him directions.
- Any damned fool can get a plane up in the air.
- He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.
- I dreaded to think what would happen if the two got mixed up.
- I fell down, knocked me walking-frame over and I couldn't get meself up again.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- Left unstirred, simmering soup will produce a scum that gets caught up in the eddies.
- While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the Gulf War veteran got swept up in an off-base drug scene.
- Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.
- More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years.
- And she's got it up top, an' all.
- Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there.
- He'd see it raise slightly, but he couldn't quite get it up.
- Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.
- She won't be able to get it up on her own anyway.
- My old car's finally given up the ghost.
- Doctors said that while his heart was fine, his vascular system had given up the ghost.
- Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again.
- He would ordinarily blow out the candle and give up the ghost.
- The spores do germinate, go through a few perfunctory cell divisions, then give up the ghost.
- They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
- This is the gentler way: convince the mind the body's dead and it gives up the ghost.
- What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey.
- With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
- I'm girding up my loins for battle on this tax issue.
- We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London.
- But then, why give them up so abruptly?
- But we would not give it up without a desperate struggle.
- He is not going to give that up.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- I kept starting new regimes, then finding I couldn't give them up.
- In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.
- That's why I want to give it up for adoption.
- After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
- Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
- It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
- On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
- Anyone waiting around on street corners at night must be up to no good.
- If you ask me, that husband of hers is up to no good.
- She knew that her brother was up to no good but she didn't tell anyone.
- Those guys look like they're up to no good.
- Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.
- Before long the entire paper industry is up for grabs.
- But the software, particularly the interface, was up for grabs.
- Canary Wharf was up for grabs.
- Howe said Doug Johns is his fifth starter, but the fourth slot is up for grabs.
- I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
- Regional and runners-up prizes will also be up for grabs.
- The lower house of Congress also is up for grabs in the July elections.
- This is the process whereby every scrap of green land in a town is up for grabs by development.
- Every year Dad puts on his Santa suit and hams it up for the kids.
- For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
- Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
- Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently.
- He brought his hands up to the typewriter keys and forced himself to begin.
- She threw her hands up in the air and leaned back, stretching, arching her chest upward.
- Singer put both hands up before his face, arms outstretched; he was begging.
- Sometimes you have got to hold your hands up and accept that certain players are not right for you.
- The next minute the grenade thrower appeared with his hands up.
- The police mounted an early-morning assault on his office, and Mr Bucaram came running out with his hands up.
- Annie hauls herself out of her chair, nets a shiner from the tank, and throws it out the screen door.
- Next day I hauled myself out of bed, took breakfast and got into the truck about a quarter to six.
- He had held up his head in the most exalted company.
- How does he hold up his head if he knows his wife is deceiving him?
- As a baby she may have had a hard time holding her head up, for example.
- Her own cheeks had gone pale; her lids drooped over her eyes; she held her head up in her hand.
- How else could a girl hold her head up in her family?
- However, Linfield can hold their heads up high.
- Just holding my head up like that.
- Remember this when the pace hots up!
- He rarely left the Brooklyn apartment where he had set up house.
- Her parents were very upset when she set up house with her boyfriend.
- They first set up house together in Atlanta and moved to Miami three years later.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Diana and I were soon to set up house in Shepherd's Bush and our fortunes were inextricable for the next decade.
- He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country.
- I have to save enough money to set up house.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- They set up house in No. 93, which was now to let.
- Hurry up - we're late!
- For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
- In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
- It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
- Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
- Arnold would keep us all up with his long, rambling stories.
- I'm often kept up by the noise of laughter and music from next door.
- Crusty Bill boasts he's on a spicy vegetarian diet to keep his strength up for love.
- During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
- He had a strong sense of humour, and kept his spirits up.
- I had to keep my strength up.
- I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
- She ate a little to keep her strength up.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Women in cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels before an audience of 24,000.
- BThey kicked up their heels, spun, twirled and got down till dawn.
- But perhaps you too are kicking up your heels elsewhere by now.
- She deserves to kick up her heels.
- This is your chance to kick up your heels and support this group of anonymous women artists.
- Women in white boots, short shorts and frilly cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels on it.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
- He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
- I think I just needed a kick up the backside.
- They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.
- A rock so large it must have taken two hands to lift it hit me on the jaw.
- His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem, nomatterhow large it appears to be, can be overcome.
- I was surprised by how large it was.
- If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer.
- It was looking at me and I marveled at how very large it was.
- Some bring aboard luggage so large it has its own wheels.
- The load was so large it took 15 agents more than an hour to unpack it.
- With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree.
- All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin's hoard was laid up for winter's sustenance.
- How much land must you commit to arable rotation, and how much must be laid up for hay or silage?
- I don't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle.
- In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months.
- It was, and Venturous was laid up at Buckie for nearly ten months while new Cummins engines were fitted.
- Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk.
- She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up.
- The barges, designed to be sailed by one man and a boy, could be laid up in a few days.
- Joining the Visa network would give it the leg-up it needs.
- Hey, lighten up! It's only a game, you know!
- Lisa was living it up like she didn't have a care in the world.
- Accountant used cash to live it up.
- I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or.
- It's no good looking for a man's body round here if the owner's living it up in Costa Rica.
- The trim is the shirt; here you can live it up, get a touch more fashionable.
- They lived it up while they were on Earth.
- This contented canine's living it up.
- Under a false identity, he's living it up in Florence, dining out with the aristocracy.
- All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.
- His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.
- I was locked up for nine years, you know that?
- It was locked up somewhere round at the back.
- Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.
- That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.
- "Don't be silly - you don't need to lose weight," he said, looking her up and down.
- The hotel manager slowly looked the old man up and down and then asked him to leave.
- Every day after the first two weeks I would look anxiously up and down the road, hoping to see their car.
- Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision.
- Ron Barton looked her up and down.
- She looked him up and down.
- She stood there, looking Sherman up and down, as if she were angry.
- The eaters were lo-cals; they looked us up and down when we went in.
- The guy looked him up and down and then something clicked.
- He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
- The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
- After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
- He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
- Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
- None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
- Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
- Time to make up for lost time.
- For example, a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week.
- He would make it up to him, the rector thought.
- In California, people making up to $ 40,000 a year qualify for help.
- Not so much eating it, really, as making up to it.
- The company stands to make up to £7m in fees if it offloads the Dome quickly.
- Ecosystems in the wild are made up of patches.
- I've given him until tomorrow morning to make up his mind.
- It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made.
- It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go.
- The remaining budget was made up by personal contributions-student loans!-from the team members.
- This contains the pattern of dots that, when printed on paper, will make up the actual character.
- Add the ginger wine and, finally, the stem ginger, mixing it in very thoroughly.
- He did an excellent job getting some steals, mixing it up and changing the complexion of the game.
- I thought we might mix it up this year and try some blues.
- Once the required colour has been mixed it is then stored in the palette for use at any time.
- Out the window, the last bit of sunlight mixed it up with the lights from the parking lot.
- They can't wait to mix it with the opposition!
- Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.
- You may find as you mix it that you need to add a bit more water.
- A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy.
- Everything else about this journey is starting to get mixed up in my head.
- He defended me and Eddie when we got mixed up in a couple of scrapes.
- He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club.
- Her son's got mixed up in it, probably demonstrated yesterday with the Socialists outside the Town Hall.
- I still do not want to get mixed up in any Indochina decision...
- It was nothing to do with her, and whatever it was she didn't want to be mixed up in it.
- We weren't going to get mixed up in a job, when we were going home off duty.
- Answer: She would never have got mixed up with him in the first place.
- But this all gets mixed up with motivation too: the horse must be motivated to learn.
- I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month.
- It's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland's will.
- Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last.
- Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
- Trust Auguste to get mixed up with it.
- We used to get mixed up with the fight.
- Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
- We were up to our necks in problems with the Apollo program.
- Like Patsy Kensit, I was up to my neck in oasis.
- The party is up to its neck in a scandal over alleged illegal purloining of confidential police files on rivals.
- Darren comes to stay with Nikki and is quick to get up the nose of everyone he meets.
- Even reading your horoscope can get up your nose.
- I didn't realise it would get up your nose so quickly and so far.
- I took her to my room, so that her feathers wouldn't get up Mum's nose.
- It had got up Rufus's nose a bit, though Adam had a perfect right to do this.
- Many professors turn their noses up at television.
- Time and again he had to turn his nose up into the arch of the drain to keep from drowning.
- This could be the year a lot of politicians find their number is up.
- When my number is up, I want it to be quick.
- Competition prize winners Kathryn Winkler of Dundee, your lucky number is up.
- After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
- Can you find somewhere to offer up a prayer? 36.
- Each morning the strike council opened business by some one offering a prayer.
- So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
- They found him and his sons on the shore offering a sacrifice to Poseidon.
- Again the opening up of public procurement procedures should result in a significant increase in intra-EC trade and industry re-structuring.
- By 1895 she had attained the opening up of Lincoln's Inn Fields to the poor.
- Over the next generation the first phase of the opening up of inland industrial Britain proceeded.
- Searching out high-quality old timber is a big factor in the opening up of pristine forests.
- Taylor said the opening up of opportunities for minorities in television would lead to more opportunities in films.
- The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
- Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.
- A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.
- Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.
- He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.
- However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.
- I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.
- I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.
- Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.
- Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.
- As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.
- The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.
- The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.
- After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.
- But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.
- Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
- As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.
- I picked up the pieces myself.
- In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.
- In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.
- It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.
- Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.
- This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.
- Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.
- The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.
- A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday.
- He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action.
- We used to keep it round Nezzer Eyres's and pick it up on Sundays when we wanted it.
- When they went off the air in the evening, I picked it up on my program.
- After a while, too, some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him.
- But eventually, he plucked up courage to see a solicitor.
- But why not pluck up the courage to do what you've always wanted?
- Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid.
- I think you should pluck up the courage to invite him out.
- Kent suspected that if the fellow ever did pluck up courage to call he would be disappointed.
- Nelly begged me not to leave her, and plucking up courage I stayed.
- On three occasions he had plucked up the courage to call her, but had never had a reply.
- That's true, up to a point.
- And, up to a point, the conventional wisdom is right.
- I could be perfectly reasonable up to a point, but Cynthia Kay had gone too far.
- Planning may be useful, but only up to a point.
- She was, up to a point.
- That is true, but only up to a point.
- The curriculum would follow the classical model, though only up to a point.
- The snorer knows that actual suffering is the lot of some one near and, up to a point, dear.
- Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
- For that reason, he rejected pop-up windows.
- One pleasing exception is the new pop-up menu feature.
- Henry pushed his door open a crack, and pricked up his ears.
- I pricked my ears up on that one.
- I pricked up my ears, and sure enough, the sound was getting louder.
- The boy pricked up his ears, because, as it happened, so they were this earth.
- The horse, scenting home and supper, pricked his ears and stepped out.
- I propped myself up against a wall and took a deep breath.
- The soldier tried to prop himself up again using his crutches.
- Bernice propped herself up and took a bite.
- Brian propped himself up on his elbows, suddenly remembering that the alarm had gone off.
- He props himself up on one elbow.
- Hefinished the last rep and propped himself up on his elbows.
- I could see Peter shaking his head in the fairway, as he propped himself up on his sand wedge.
- Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow, watching.
- She stretched and propped herself up on an elbow, aware that something was not quite right.
- We're full of doubts and we try to prop each other up.
- Anyway, I pull up a chair by the bed and say hello.
- He pulls up a chair as she starts another game.
- He now pulled up a chair and, turning it about, sat on it, his elbows resting on the back.
- Rose, Victorine, Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to.
- She pulls up a stool and sits down next to us, watching intently, still unable to stifle her laughter.
- I felt I had to pull her up on her lateness.
- Our teachers are always pulling us up for wearing the wrong uniform.
- Behind Duvall, Jimmy could see that Barbara was pulling herself to her feet.
- Granny pulled herself to her feet and tottered over to the bench, where Hodgesaargh had left his jar of flame.
- On March 4 she caught hold of the end of her buggy and twice pulled herself to her feet.
- Weary now that the excitement of the film was no longer sweeping her along, she pulled herself to her feet.
- Whitlock pulled himself to his feet and winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- "Where are you staying?" "Carole's putting us up for a couple of days."
- They put me up in the spare room for a few days while I sorted things out.
- By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
- Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
- I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
- I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
- Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
- Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
- The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
- In other days Managers would have put up an argument as to the folly of this approach by Management.
- Dad was bringing up the rear to make sure no one got lost.
- The funeral hearse was followed by cars full of friends, and a company of Life Guards brought up the rear.
- We all followed our guide up the path, Marcus and I bringing up the rear.
- Chivvying the staff of the Villa Russe into the tea room with refreshments, Auguste brought up the rear.
- Four men-at-arms rode alongside, and bringing up the rear was another monk herding a flock of sheep and goats.
- He led the way, followed by an ebullient Christina and Elaine, with James sullenly bringing up the rear.
- He was tired of bringing up the rear in the march of civilization.
- One by one they climbed in, Delaney first, Nell in the middle, with Andrevitch bringing up the rear.
- The unmistakable figure of the immaculate Captain Trentham brought up the rear.
- They fall in beside him and start up the hill to the induction center, the cop bringing up the rear.
- He left the country in December to take up residence in Panama.
- In 1951 he took up residence in Chicago.
- In 1953 Diem took up residence at a monastery in Belgium.
- He's about to take up residence at Hertford College, Oxford.
- He was only a few weeks away from his ninetieth birthday when pneumonia again took up residence in his weary lungs.
- In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden.
- One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche's garden.
- The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir.
- The labs' distant agents are Kurds who have taken up residence in the West.
- They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland.
- He was right up there on Herron Avenue.
- Northampton are right up there in second place.
- Number of sunny days is right up there for me, too.
- On the trauma scale, this was right up there with an automobile wreck.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- We've got a crisis on our hands, and we need to roll up our sleeves and do something about it.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- For Gieves the tailors, the extent to which clients indulged in running up bills regardless had become extremely serious.
- Having run up a debt of over £100,000, they're unlikely to be forgotten by Virgin Records in a hurry.
- He spent 3 months there, running up bills of £30,000, as yet unpaid.
- If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it.
- It became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers.
- Model customers run up bills and pay in installments, with the high interest that makes the business so lucrative.
- The problem of running up debts to pay for the elderly is straight-forward.
- They continue to run up bills and never build equity in their house.
- These performances are part of the run-up to the Center's anniversary celebrations.
- Competition has hit a new high with many attractive offers in the run-up to Christmas.
- Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.
- Doubts about Mr Hague's longevity are not new, but are increasingly damaging in the run-up to an election.
- In the run-up to Christmas, their games are selling faster than ever.
- It said that in the run-up to an election, it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties.
- Recently, they developed a roll of film found in Paul's old camera, taken in the run-up to the fighting.
- Sheila Geddes, Sid Clarke and all the others who had contributed their efforts in the run-up to the launch.
- The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.
- A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.
- His grammar and accent were not up to scratch, and he kept running to the airport.
- So do feel free to change anything that strikes you as not up to scratch.
- That today's pop culture isn't up to scratch?
- The couple told stunned housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs.
- Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog.
- He screwed up his eyes against the light and Jurnet saw the gipsy in him.
- He screwed up his eyes and put his hands over his ears.
- He screwed up his face as the hot water from the kitchen tap scalded his hand.
- He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back.
- She screwed up her face and whispered: you're so revoltingly fat you disgusting baboon.
- But Janice's fear was so great she struggled through two more migraines before screwing up enough courage to try the injection.
- I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson, pretending to be a drama student wanting advice.
- They scrunch up their faces, peering into the haze.
- Stephen King's novels have sent shivers up readers' spines for more than 20 years.
- He kicked her sending shivers up her spine; again she yelped, and everything turned black.
- We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
- He said, following his arrest last fall, that the FBI had set him up.
- Terry and Donald think I set them up, but it's all a big misunderstanding.
- After all, she was the one who'd set herself up as Jett's little helper.
- Everyone thinks he can set himself up as a dramatic critic.
- He set himself up as a one-man cult.
- It's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader.
- Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has, by its own proclamation, set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners.
- She was too young to be setting herself up as the devoted handmaiden to the great man.
- Why do they set themselves up as tradesmen if that's all they're going to do?
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- Crickets set up a racket in trees out in the yard.
- IBM had the market for electric typewriters sewn up.
- For the lawyers have it all sewn up.
- The deal between the wholesaler and manufacturer will have been sewn up only minutes before Sanjay accepted his orders.
- To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough.
- Craig shinned down the rope to where we were standing.
- I locked myself out of the house and had to shinny up a drainpipe to get in.
- We watched as small boys shinned up palm trees and brought coconuts down.
- Boys and girls shinned up trees to 10p off branches.
- But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.
- Dave shinned up a handy conifer.
- He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- No fire-escape, no convenient drainpipe anyone could shin up.
- Nothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.
- The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.
- His brother was eight and spent two days learning how to shinny up to the office.
- The boy panicked and tried more desperately to shinny up the mast.
- But it was his elf face which shot up.
- Fists shot up, some holding dinner pails in the air like flags.
- However, as soon as he struck off one of its heads another two shot up in its place.
- I righted myself and pain shot up my right leg as I put weight on it.
- If interest rates shoot up, stocks and bonds usually fall in price.
- The father nodded, his eyebrows shot up.
- Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them.
- Dr. Rosen closed his downtown practice and set up shop in a suburban neighborhood.
- Jack got his law degree, then set up shop as a real estate lawyer.
- At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting's Alley, which was near the Royal Exchange.
- Each failed when a dispute arose and some group walked out of the union to set up shop down the block.
- My body and the kindly Earth have set up shop against me.
- NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
- S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
- The two Yankees started the business set up shop right where you see it.
- Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
- A moment later, though, and she was bringing herself up short.
- But Blue brings himself up short, realizing that they have nothing really to do with Black.
- However, never bring a preclear up short on this material.
- She has a red face and a manner that pulls people up short.
- This brings us up short at the outset of our study.
- We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.
- He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.
- I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.
- If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.
- Judged by their own standards, they came up short.
- Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.
- Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.
- This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.
- We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
- He might have put up a good show the other day, but that was because he was frightened.
- She put up a better show in the 1980s.
- Just shut up, you two!
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Can't you shut those kids up?
- The only way to shut her up is to give her something to eat.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley.
- Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
- He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder.
- I sat up, wondering what the hell!
- I was still groggy, but I could sit up.
- Léonie sat up straight, tucked her feet to one side, put her hands round her knees.
- They sat up side by side in the bed, naked, listening, but Valerie no longer felt safe.
- I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
- Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
- Smarten up! It's time for inspection.
- Jeremy, go smarten yourself up before dinner.
- She's smartening herself up in the ladies' room.
- Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
- After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.
- Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.
- For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.
- If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?
- Its mosque went up in smoke.
- Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.
- That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.
- Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke.
- A few of these devices should be exploded every year to test whether the refurbishing is working up to snuff.
- It is the kind of work that museums do to conserve their furniture collections and bring their acquisitions up to snuff.
- Semiconductor, software and computer companies slumped in price because of concern that earnings may not be up to snuff.
- As well as soaking up the sun, Emma says she's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City.
- But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax, socialise and soak up the sun.
- Elena Fonti lay on the beach soaking up the sun.
- Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun.
- She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun.
- The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun.
- Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
- Without it, the green machinery that soaks up the sun's energy is starved.
- Maybe we needed to pull our socks up and we are trying to do just that.
- With 16 games to go Oxford have still got time to pull their socks up.
- You're not exactly a young lad any more so you've got to pull your socks up.
- You'll have to learn to speak up for yourself.
- Did they make fun of him for speaking up for the underdog in school?
- Ella Anderson speaks up for tulips.
- Erlend, six years younger, needed some one to speak up for him, sometimes.
- He was to celebrate the inauguration in Florida speaking up for the black voters who feel disenfranchised.
- If those with inside knowledge of the facts didn't speak up for Britain, who the hell would?
- My captor found no reply to this, but luckily a Monster Fish Maiden spoke up for him.
- She identified with them, spoke up for them, tackled situations others had avoided.
- Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person?
- For most newcomers to the rough-and-tumble Big East, it can take some time to get up to speed.
- I called some of my friends and asked them, informally to try to bring the two consultants up to speed.
- It may not be happening fast enough, but the winds of societal change take a while to get up to speed.
- It took the company a year to bring them up to speed.
- Thank you, George W.. Bush, for bringing the majority of voters up to speed.
- To bring consumers up to speed, telephone companies are revving up education campaigns.
- She had been continually up the spout, or over the moon, about some one or something.
- That's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill.
- Our family pulled up stakes every few years when Dad was in the Army.
- Moreover, when a business pulls up stakes or downsizes, an entire program can wither overnight.
- So, he pulled up stakes and moved to Allen County to oversee a farm.
- Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
- I do not want to stand up and be counted as a supporter of those demands.
- Those who admire her should stand up and be counted.
- We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted!
- But Dehlavi takes his time getting up steam, leaving a good 20 minutes of surplus slack in these two hours.
- Cons: Just when the bobsled builds up steam, brakes on the track slow it down.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who is suddenly picking up steam?
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- Do your homework before applying to permanently up sticks.
- He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them.
- I couldn't up sticks and away, which I might have done otherwise - regretting it afterwards.
- Maybe we up sticks and move to another, better part of the country to cool out.
- You will then have the right specimens ready and waiting whenever anyone decides to up sticks and move.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Mahmud may have bought time for himself, but he stored up trouble for his successors.
- She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
- They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
- A thin crack running straight up the wall had appeared.
- At this point, the base of the golf club should point straight up into the air.
- Ben earns $10,000 a month, straight up.
- The rocket shot straight up and exploded overhead.
- The towers of the hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.
- This is your second time at this college, straight up?
- Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room.
- So, if that sounds up your street, get your Peak Performance subscription in soon!
- This sort of thing should be right up your street.
- At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
- Besides, Anna had struck up a conversation with a young girl who'd been swimming in the pool.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship.
- He struck up a conversation, first asking his name.
- He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Alone and friendless, she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Particularly with the Liberals, who struck up a sort of Bucharest-Ettrick Bridge accord.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Shy but cordial friendships were struck up, which Mrs Thomlinson was powerless to prevent or subvert.
- The orchestra struck up a polonaise, the lights strung on trees glistened in the garden, the tables groaned with food.
- This was their task but that sums it up too simply.
- Airlines will have to pick up the tab for new safety regulations.
- Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
- We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.
- He wouldn't pick up the tab for anyone else.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Normally, developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- Thus, port officials argue, the city should have picked up the tab for fixing the recently revealed environmental problems.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- He picked up the thread and followed it.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- They talked non-stop in an elaborate relay race, one picking up the thread as soon as the other paused for breath.
- But instead of throwing up her hands and blaming the problem on organizational chaos, she stepped back and analyzed the situation.
- Davide had seen the priests, who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress's problem.
- Even his most recent wife, Mercedes, had thrown up her hands.
- He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
- Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen.
- Jenny exclaimed to E.. Ames, throwing up her hands.
- Paul Reichmann threw up his hands in protest at the suggestion, but did not utter a sound.
- Then they throw up their hands, wondering why the benefits they have been pursuing never seem to accrue.
- But the docs just gave me the thumbs up.
- East Kilbride celebrates as tyre plant proposal given the thumbs down.
- I can see it now: In toga and laurel wreath, Big Al will give the thumbs up or thumbs down.
- In Grampian, 80 percent. of general practitioners gave it the thumbs down.
- London movie-goers gave Glengarry Glen Ross, about cut-throat estate agents, the thumbs up this week.
- The Dole campaign has not yet given the thumbs up, preferring to wait for the results of Super Tuesday.
- The question, which had been popped earlier on the stadium's electronic scoreboard, got the thumbs up.
- Top analysts gave it the thumbs up and prices took off.
- Sharon has tied herself up in knots worrying about her job.
- "May I speak to Professor Smithers?" "I'm sorry. He's tied up at the moment."
- I'm sorry, he's tied up at the moment. Could you call back later?
- I can't see you tomorrow, I'm tied up all day.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.
- Apart from that, everyone else is tied up with this extraordinary business at the Savoy.
- For many, aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- Some of these are tied up with the conception of crime itself; and will be dealt with in the next section.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The trouble is, he's going to be tied up with all this now.
- His new movie will tie up some of the loose ends from the last one.
- There are still a few loose ends to tie up before we have an agreement.
- Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
- The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
- The blokes all put on frocks, like, an' the chicks get togged up in strides.
- "Have you decided where to go on holiday?'' "Well, it'll be either Portugal or Turkey -- it's a toss-up.''
- I don't know who'll get the job. I guess it's a toss-up between Carl and Steve.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
- Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed, sleeping happily once again, while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room.
- Most girls never drink or smoke, and are tucked up in bed by midnight.
- Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park.
- While the field has changed with rent control nearly quashed, wake up and smell the coffee of a new day.
- Blow up the wall with the explosives. 22.
- Giant red cockroaches walking up the walls, and even an my table.
- He hoped she wouldn't turn fickle when he was half way up the wall.
- Her pillow inched up the wall.
- Such abstract philosophizing drives true poets around the bend, up the wall, and over the top.
- The vine clawed its way up the wall at the end.
- This simplifies fitting around awkward shapes. 2 Lay the vinyl in place with surplus curling up the wall.
- She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.
- Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
- She's all wrapped up warm with this big old coat on.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- A portable vacuum cleaner is most helpful for sand up the wazoo. 2.
- But deep inside there was a brooding that was welling up in him.
- By eight o'clock, when the first pair was due to tee off, the sun was well up in a clear sky.
- Drunken fans whooped it up in the streets.
- Blake was to be wrapped up in this sooty, surreptitious London nearly all his life.
- Each item of information is wrapped up in two lines of the file.
- He said the whole thing could be wrapped up in a week.
- I was wrapped up in an officer's uniform; you couldn't see me for fur and leather.
- On the other hand, I think many of my successes are wrapped up in the same thing.
- The control was wrapped up in some interdependent web.
- The time was past ten, kids were wrapped up in their beds, and parents were probably about to retire themselves.
- It got a lot of airplay from John Peel, and was written up extensively by the music press.
- Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard.
- Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press.
- Results of investigations and the like will need to be written up.
- Several points were discussed; these will be written up more fully in the minutes.
- The incident was written up in the local newspaper.
- The research will be written up as it proceeds, and will be published in 1986.
- Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones, and their errors were written up by the historian.
We have our ups and downs like all couples.2be on the up British English spoken to be improving or increasing: Business confidence is on the up.3be on the up and up a)British English informal to be becoming more successful: a brilliant young player who is on the up and up b)American English spoken if a person or business is on the up and up, they are honest and do things legallyup1 adverb, preposition, adjectiveup2 nounup3 verb
upup3 verb (past tense and past participle upped, present participle upping) VERB TABLE
up
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | up |
| he, she, it | ups | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | upped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have upped |
| he, she, it | has upped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had upped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will up |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have upped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am upping |
| he, she, it | is upping | |
| you, we, they | are upping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was upping |
| you, we, they | were upping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been upping |
| he, she, it | has been upping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been upping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be upping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been upping |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After the families of the two men were contacted, the ransom was upped to $ 1 million.
- We upped periscope, identified it, then downed periscope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She decided to put the baby up for adoption. We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. We’re all going out to get bevvied up. Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. The presenter gave her a big build-up. He got his call-up papers in July. I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. A great cheer went up from the crowd. Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image. Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease. He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme. I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). a stand-up comic Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. We cranked up the volume. I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). Anna got fed up with waiting. Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce. You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. a politician climbing up the greasy pole The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) The pressure at work continued without any let-up. This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game). The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones. Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? The Houston Astros have notched up another win. I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. A team of volunteers were putting up posters. He built up a good rapport with the children. She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year. The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up. The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates. Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere. My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls. The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. up-to-date kitchen equipment The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.
· During his stay in England, he had picked up an English accent.
She decided to put the baby up for adoption. (=one that suddenly appears on your computer screen when you are looking at a website)· You can buy software that blocks unwanted pop-up advertisements.
We could see the lights of Las Vegas up ahead. A car drew up alongside. (=that you have tried not to show)· Her voice shook with suppressed anger.
(=find a way of dealing with a problem)· The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.
(=with a lot of buildings close together)· New development will not be allowed outside the existing built-up area.
· They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain.
(=try to sell something at an auction) This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction.
This week 14 of his paintings were put up for auction. (=to get an award – used especially in news reports)· Angelina Jolie scooped up the award for best actress.
Sure enough, Steve turned up like the proverbial bad penny (=suddenly appeared). Can you help me blow up these balloons? (=starts playing)· We were on the dance floor waiting for the band to strike up.
The technology is bang up to date. He did a bang-up job fixing the plumbing. (=find one)· You can often pick up a bargain at an auction.
· Some kids have erected emotional barriers that stop them from learning.
We’re all going out to get bevvied up. (=pay for something, especially when you do not want to)· Taxpayers will probably have to foot the bill.
(=use a lot of something so that you have a big bill to pay)· It’s easy to run up a big bill on your mobile phone.
Can you blow up this balloon? We’ll blow the tyres up. (=tie it to something so that it stays in one place)· You can tie up the boat to that tree.· How much does it cost to moor a boat here?
The boat bobbed gently up and down on the water. Stop bouncing up and down on the sofa. (=for washing the dishes in)· a plastic washing-up bowl
(=catch one)· He seems to pick up every bug going.
(=form a clear idea about someone or something) We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened.
We’re trying to build up a picture of what happened. The presenter gave her a big build-up. (also erect a building formal)· They keep pulling down the old buildings and putting up new ones.
· The bank gave me a loan to help me set up in business.
· When you’re starting a business, you have to work longer hours.
· He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.
(=fasten it)· He quickly did up the buttons on his shirt.
· I added the cost up on a calculator.
He got his call-up papers in July. (=use up the calories you have eaten)· Even walking will help you to burn up calories.
(=make a camera ready to use)· The team set up their cameras some distance from the animals.
(=put up your tents and arrange the camping place)· The soldiers set up camp outside the city.
(=put forward a candidate)· Any member may nominate a candidate.
(=stops)· Why’s that police car pulling up here?
I need to catch up on some sleep (=after a period without enough sleep). I’ll leave you two alone – I’m sure you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the movie his murky past catches up with him. (=move a chair nearer someone or something)· Pull up a chair and look at these pictures.
(also rise from your chair formal)· He got up from his chair and walked to the window.
(=get up quickly)· ‘Look at the time!’ she cried, jumping up from her chair.
(=not accept or use an opportunity)· Imagine throwing up a chance to go to America!
· Sometimes we go to the cinema or just meet up for a chat.
(=make one)· Why not draw up a checklist of things you want to achieve this year?
A great cheer went up from the crowd. especially British English, raise a child especially American English· The cost of bringing up a child has risen rapidly.
· One in four children is growing up in poverty.
· Michael built up a wide circle of customers and friends worldwide.
(=support it)· They challenged him to back up his claims with evidence.
Dad’s upstairs getting cleaned up. It’s high time British soccer cleaned up its image.· The music was getting louder and building up to a climax.
(=turn a key to keep it working)· It was one of those old clocks that you have to wind up.
Over many years, the pipes had got clogged up with grease.· Austria's ruling government coalition collapsed.
He’s made a monumental cock-up of his first assignment. (=create one)· The syndicate decided to draw up a code of conduct for its members.
We put up our home as collateral in order to raise the money to invest in the scheme.· He gradually built up a collection of plants from all over the world.
I’m afraid I’ll have to cancel our date – something’s come up. The resort certainly failed to come up to expectations. He started as a stand-up comedian (=someone who tells jokes to an audience). (=performances with one person telling jokes alone)· He developed a stand-up comedy act.
a stand-up comic (=give one continuously)· Attenborough kept up a running commentary on the animals' movements.
· They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
· The council appointed a special committee to study the issue.
· Two years later he started his own software company.
(=make it start working)
· My computer takes ages to start up in the morning.
(=is working again after stopping working)
(=gradually increase it)· When you’ve had an accident, it takes a while to build up your confidence again.
(=explain something more clearly)· The chairman said that he would try to clear up the confusion.
Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless salads. (=write one)· The American constitution was drafted in 1787.
· Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.
(=write one)· The two sides drew up a contract.
(=made in case the original is lost)· Be sure you regularly make back-up copies of your data.
· The new tax will increase the cost of owning a car.
· The cost of electricity has risen again.
· A National Radio and Television Council was established to regulate the market.
(=make yourself feel brave)· Summoning all her courage, she got up to see what the noise was.
(=try to find it)· He was trying to pluck up the courage to end their relationship.
We cranked up the volume. (=to allow someone to treat you badly)· I’m not going to take any more of this crap!
I’m not the kind of person to creep to anybody. (=goes away in different directions)· Seeing there would be no more entertainment, the crowd began to disperse.
(=make a crowd go away in different directions)· A few warning shots were fired in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
(=fix new curtains at a window)· She was standing on a ladder hanging some new curtains.
I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet. (also amass debts formal) (=borrow more and more money)· At that time he was drinking a lot and running up debts.
(also keep pace with demand) (=satisfy the demand)· Public funding for higher education has not kept up with demand.
(=prevent it from continuing)· Police moved in to break up the demonstration.
(=think of or suggest one)· We asked the architect to come up with another design.
· He got up from his desk to welcome the visitors.
· If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
British English informal (=with a lot of good food)· Mum always makes a slap-up dinner for me when I go home.
I got a shock when he just turned up on the doorstep. Both the girls were doubled up with laughter. (=write one)· Always write a rough draft of your essay first.· He drew up a draft of the club’s rules and regulations.
· Local authorities have drawn up new plans for waste disposal.
· The European Communities were drawing up proposals to control the export of chemicals.
· They drew up a list of suitable candidates for the job.
· A committee of teachers has drawn up guidelines for schools on how to deal with difficult students.
· Environmental organizations have been involved in drawing up the report.
· Some people draw up a contract when they get married.
· They haven’t yet drawn up a timetable for the elections.
· A small team has drawn up a programme of action.
(=set of laws and principles that govern a country)· The first Czech constitution was drawn up here in 1920.
(=plan of how to spend the money that is available)· Each year business managers draw up a budget.
spoken informal (=make someone feel very annoyed)· That voice of hers drives me up the wall.
He travelled throughout Latin America drumming up support for the confederation. The organization is using the event to drum up business (=get more work and sales). (=start doing a new job)· Neale has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1.
· Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
(=the period of time before an election)· There have been violent street protests in the run-up to the elections.
(=emotions that someone feels but does not express)· Crying can release pent-up emotions.
(=deliberately try to make people have strong feelings)· His speech roused the crowd and stirred up their emotions.
· She built her clothing empire from one small shop to an international chain.
British English, gun an engine American English (=make an engine go very fast)· As the lights turned green, Chris gunned the engine and we surged forward.
(=be very enthusiastic and keen to do something)· She came back from the course fired up with enthusiasm.
· It’s about time that we started cleaning up the environment.
· The factory has some of the most up-to-date equipment available.
(=be respected or admired more or less by someone)
(=cause something)· His assassination was one of the events that led to the First World War.
(=use someone as a good example of something)· He was held up as an example to the younger athletes.
· I made up some excuse about my car breaking down.· We’d better think up an excuse, fast.
· Do some warm-up exercises before lifting heavy weights.
(=be as good as someone hoped or expected)· The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.
· Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.
(=become excited)· His eyes lit up when I mentioned the word money.
(=make-up that you put on your eyelids or eyelashes)· She never leaves the house without lipstick and eye make-up.
(=they start to look happy)· Denise’s face lit up when she heard the news.
(=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)· Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.
Anna got fed up with waiting.· The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
· I must have made a mistake when I added up the figures.
Her eyes filled up with tears. The effect will be to increase unemployment and force down wages. Jim and Tina made up a foursome with Jean and Bruce.· He and Matthew struck up a friendship.
(=put fuel in a vehicle's fuel tank)· Before leaving, I filled up with fuel at the local petrol station.
British English informal (=completely full) The filing cabinet was full to bursting.
The filing cabinet was full to bursting.· They have set up a fund to build a memorial to all those who died.
British English (=that you rent to keep a car or goods in)· They kept the car in a lock-up garage round the corner.
· She had bought and wrapped gifts for children in hospital.
(=stop having a romantic relationship)
You shouldn’t give up so easily. The ground was too hard to dig so I gave it up as a bad job (=stopped trying because success seemed unlikely). He was making the story up as he went along. Unemployment in the country has gone up by a million. The whole building went up in flames. (=start playing golf)· He took up golf as a way of getting more exercise.
a politician climbing up the greasy pole (=the members decide not to play together anymore)· The group split up because of ‘musical differences’.
The hospital has issued new guidelines on the treatment of mentally ill patients. She’s got a real hang-up about her body. (=deliberately try to cause arguments or bad feelings between people)· Right-wing parties tried to stir up hatred and exploit racial tension.
· Can you turn the heating down a bit?
Mike tends to get het up about silly things. High up among the clouds, we saw the summit of Everest. (=in a powerful position) someone high up in the CIA
someone high up in the CIA The school is held up as a model for others. Why don’t you put your hood up if you’re cold? (=stop hoping)· After so long without any word from David, Margaret was starting to lose hope.
The new production targets have stirred up a hornets' nest. (=build a house, especially when it seems very quick)· I think they’ve ruined the village by putting up these new houses.
informal (=decorate it)· We’ve been doing up the house bit by bit since we first moved in.
(=think of an idea)· He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.
(=be as good as you think something should be)· The regime is not living up to its supposed democratic ideals.
(=be like the image you have presented of yourself)· He has certainly lived up to his wild rock-star image.
(=improve your image after it has been damaged)· The pop star promised to clean up his image after he was released from prison.
· They saw their income rise considerably over the next few years.
(=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.
(=make inflation worse)· The increase in food prices is fuelling inflation.· There are now fears that price rises will push up inflation.
(=start it)· Police launched an inquiry yesterday after a man was killed by a patrol car.
(=a more detailed interview after you have been successful in a previous interview)· She was asked back for a second interview.
(=accept someone's invitation)· I decided to take them up on their invitation to dinner.
(=say an issue should be discussed)· Some important issues were raised at the meeting.
(also an issue arises formal) (=people started to discuss it)· The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.
joined-up government the need for joined-up thinking between departments Fans were jumping up and down (=jumping repeatedly) and cheering. jump-up kids (=young people who like this type of music) (=continue to work hard and well)
(=try to have the same new impressive possessions that other people have)
· He climbed the ladder up to the diving platform.
· Be careful going down the ladder!
· Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.
(=put the laundry outside on a line to dry)· My mother was hanging out the laundry in the sun.
(=tidy away fallen leaves using a brush)· Jack was sweeping leaves in the back garden.
(=continue something that has stopped for a short time) Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.
Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.· I used all my leave in the summertime.
(=developed over time)· The legend of his bravery grew after he killed the dragon.
The pressure at work continued without any let-up.· The level of unemployment has increased.
· Lightning lit up the room briefly.
This was one of his favourite chat-up lines (=remark for impressing someone you want to attract). He’s already got a new job lined up. This was his first match in the starting line-up (=the players who begin the game).· Could you make a list of any supplies we need?
The film has certainly lived up to my expectations. Now the summer’s here things are looking up! We’ve nearly finished, but there are still a few loose ends to be tied up (=dealt with or completed). She was heavily made-up (=wearing a lot of make-up). I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking). The company will be forced to pay $6 million to make up the difference. Oh come on! Why don’t you just kiss and make up? The good days more than make up for the bad ones.· They’re not allowed to wear make-up to school.
(=be wearing make-up)· She had no make-up on.
· She rarely uses make-up.
(also apply make-up formal)· Gloria watched her mother put on her make-up.
(=put on make-up)· I’ll do your make-up for you, if you want.
(also remove make-up formal)· Take off eye make-up gently, using a cotton ball.
(=put a little more make-up on after some has come off)· She went into the bathroom to touch up her makeup.
(=accidentally rub it so that it spreads to areas where you do not want it)· Grace wiped her eyes, smudging her make-up.
(=a lot of make-up)· a girl in high heels and heavy make-up
· She was wearing far too much eye make-up.
(=make-up that actors wear in plays)· the elaborate stage make-up for ‘The Lion King’
(=very thick make-up worn by actors)· His face was covered by thick pancake makeup.
(=someone whose job is to put make-up on actors, people appearing on television etc)· the chief make-up artist on the film
(=ends because of disagreements)· Liz’s marriage broke up after only eight months.
British English informal (=a good meal)· Jennie cooked us a slap-up meal.
Whoever is responsible for this mess can clear it up immediately! No more argument. My mind is made up. You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking. (=be doing things that cause trouble or damage)· The children were lively and always up to mischief.
(also make mischief) (=do things that cause trouble or damage)· You spend too much time getting into mischief!
(=get rid of a misunderstanding)· I want to talk to you, to try and clear up any misunderstandings.
I must have got the times mixed up. My papers got all mixed up. (=become more and more successful)· The show gathered momentum over the next few months and became a huge hit.
· She had saved up enough money to buy a car.
(=keep morale high)· It was becoming difficult to keep up the morale of the troops.
(also ascend a mountain formal)· Carrie and Albert went up the mountain, neither of them speaking as they climbed.
He was moving up the ladder (=getting higher and higher positions), and getting management experience. He’s moved up in the world (=got a better job or social position) in the last few years, and his new flat shows it. Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up. Could you just repeat those figures – I’ve got a bit muddled up. (=make them stronger)· If you strengthen the muscles in your back you are less likely to have back problems.
Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out. (=starts)· A number of myths have grown up about their relationship.
Do they have the next size up (=a slightly bigger size)? (=one that curves up at the end)· She had big eyes and a turned-up nose.
The Houston Astros have notched up another win. (=write down what your notes say, using full sentences and more detail)· It’s a good idea to write up your notes soon after a lecture.
(=add several numbers together)· Write all the numbers down, then add them up.
· The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
(also enter an occupation formal) (=start doing one)· Many of his colleagues have taken up another occupation.· Our recent graduates have entered a wide range of occupations.
British English (=accept someone's offer)· I might take him up on his offer.
· The course also provides an opportunity to study Japanese.
· We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
(=choose an option)· America was persuaded not to take up the option of military action.
(=continue to do something or happen as quickly as before)· China's society is transforming but can it keep up the pace?
(=do something as fast as something else is happening or being done)· It’s essential that we constantly update our skills and keep up with the pace of change.
I found Mark at the hospital, pacing restlessly up and down. (=it ends and people go home)· The party broke up a little after midnight.
I don’t think you should pass up the opportunity to go to university. Try to patch up your differences before he leaves. He went back to patch things up with his wife. (=be able to make regular payments)· He was having trouble meeting the interest payments.
· Liverpool put in a marvellous performance in the second half.
(=prepare one)· They are drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Archbishop.
· She stopped to fill up with petrol.
We picked up their tracks again on the other side of the river. We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off. We’ve been through a bit of a bad patch, but things are picking up again now. The price includes travel from your local pick-up point in the UK to your hotel in Paris. (=gradually get an idea of what something is like)· Detectives are still trying to build up a picture of what happened.
· The city authorities have abandoned their plans to host the Super Bowl.
(=think of a plan)· The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.
(=make a detailed plan, especially after considering something carefully)· He devised a daring plan to steal two million dollars.· The company has already drawn up plans to develop the site.
If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he’s going to end up in the poorhouse. (=start doing a job)· Woods took up a new position as managing director of a company in Belfast.
(=make a new opportunity available)· His recent performance opens up the possibility for him to compete in the Olympic Games.
(=start a new job)· She will take up her new post next month.
A team of volunteers were putting up posters.· No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.
(also fill a prescription American English) (=give a patient the drugs that a doctor says they need)· You can get the prescription made up at a chemist's.
(=keep pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· She kept up the pretence that her husband had died in order to claim the insurance money.
(=stop pretending that you are doing something or that something is true)· Maria had abandoned any pretence of having faith of any kind long ago.
· When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.
(=increases quickly by a large amount)· The price of oil soared in the 1970s.
· Manufacturers have had to put their prices up.
· Pre-tax profits were up 21.5%.
(=organize it)· $30 million would be required to set up the project.
(=think of one)· The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.
· A committee of experts drew up proposals for a constitution.
· I think the quality has gone down over the years.
British English (=end it)· The brothers eventually patched up their quarrel.
(=make it quieter or louder)· Can you turn your radio down a bit?
He built up a good rapport with the children. (also the rate rises/increases more formal)· The crime rate just keeps going up.
· If the banks raise interest rates, this will reduce the demand for credit.
(=realize what is happening or real)· Well, they need to wake up to reality.
She picked up the receiver and dialled his number. (=make them recover more quickly)· She believes that a holiday would speed my recovery.
Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year.· The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.
(=be as good as people say it is)· New York certainly lived up to its reputation as an exciting city.
(=resist someone or something)· If the rest of us are agreed, I don’t think he’ll put up much resistance.
(=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)· His contract is coming up for review.
The government’s proposals were held up to ridicule (=suffered ridicule) by opposition ministers. That class gets me so riled up.· Further downstream the river has dried up completely several times in recent years.
The police have set up roadblocks to try and catch the two men. The old wardrobe took up too much room. our Friday sports round-up (=a very angry row)· That night there was a stand-up row among the four kidnappers.
(=make them stricter)· The EU has tightened the rules on the quality of drinking water.
· Sales rose by 9% last year.
· Peasants managed their land as skilfully as some people higher up the social scale.
· Some farmers prospered and moved up the social scale.
We spent thousands of pounds getting the house up to scratch. (=be found to have faults when examined)· Such arguments do not stand up to careful scrutiny.
Playing a sport can boost a girl’s self-esteem. students’ sense of self-esteem (=their value increases)· The company’s shares rose 5.5p to 103p.
(=fastened with laces)· He bought a pair of brown leather lace-up shoes.
The panel will draw up a shortlist of candidates.· The antenna that will pick up the signals is a 12-metre dish.
(=with your back straight)· Sit up straight at the table, Maddie.
Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. (=sleep after not having enough sleep)· I suggest you try and catch up on some sleep.
I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago. A lot of money was spent to bring the building up to snuff. Go to a sidewalk café, order coffee, and soak up the atmosphere.· We are working together to find the best solution we can.
(=go faster)· The Mercedes was gradually picking up speed.
(=keep them feeling happy)· He wrote home often, trying to keep his family’s spirits up.
(=start doing it)· I took up the sport six years ago.
My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout. Stand up straight and don’t slouch! Without a witness, the charges will never stand up in court (=be successfully proved in a court of law). Mark used to do stand-up at Roxy’s Bar. (=be good enough)· Her work was not up to standard.
· I had spent a lot of time looking up at the stars as a kid.
(also erect a statue formal) (=put it in a public place)· They put up a statue of him in the main square.· They should erect a statue to you for doing that.
I let the kids stay up late on Fridays. John was always stirring up trouble in class. Dave’s just trying to stir things up because he’s jealous. The country has been building up its stock of weapons. (=starts)· That night, a storm blew up.
(=starts)· In 1895 a diplomatic storm blew up between Britain and America over Venezuela.
· She confessed to making up the story of being abducted.
(=make yourself stronger)· You need to build up your strength.
(=deliberately start talking about it)· You brought the subject up, not me.
(=people start talking about it)· The subject of payment never came up.
(=think of something to suggest)· We’ve come up with five suggestions.
(=appears at the beginning of the day)· As the sun rises, the birds take flight.
· The diver had nearly used up his supply of oxygen.
(=get people’s support by making an effort)· Both sides have been drumming up support through the internet.
(=increase it)· Now he needs to build his support by explaining what he believes in.
He ran up a $4,000 tab in long-distance calls.· She stood up from her chair and left the table.
The headteacher takes up her duties in August. The hospital manager has promised to take the matter up with the member of staff involved. The little time I had outside of school was taken up with work. old books that were taking up space in the office Rob took up the invitation to visit. Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250-mile route alone. The runners are taking up their positions on the starting line. I’ll take you up on that offer of a drink, if it still stands. (=tears come into their eyes)· She broke off, feeling the tears welling up in her eyes.
· As soon as she got home, she picked up the telephone and dialled his number.
(=make it louder or quieter)· Rory had turned the television up so loud that the people next door complained.
· These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.
British English (=when all the different parts of a plan or situation are considered together, so that it has better results)· The media has criticized the lack of joined-up thinking in the government’s plans for dealing with a terrorist attack.
We had worked up a thirst (=done something that made us thirsty), and so we decided to stop for a beer. The project was finally given the thumbs up. (=used to say that the time allowed for something has finished)· Time’s up, class. Put your pens down and hand your papers to the front.
· If you listen to the show, you’ll pick up some really useful gardening tips.
(=start talking about it)· It’s still a very difficult topic to raise.
· Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.
(=large vehicles used for particular purposes) His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.
His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck. Dissidents were routinely arrested on trumped-up charges. Steve turned up late, as usual. (=type a copy of something written by hand, in note form, or recorded) I went home to type up the report.
I went home to type up the report. It started to rain, so Tricia stopped to put up her umbrella. They have access to up-to-date information through a computer database. (=to give someone all the newest information about something) Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion.
Our magazine will keep you up to date with fashion. up-to-date kitchen equipment (=to make something more modern) The old system should be brought up to date.
The old system should be brought up to date. The general lacked up-to-the-minute information at the crucial moment. (also a vacancy arises/occurs formal) (=there is a vacancy)· A vacancy has arisen on the committee.
· The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.
Exchange programs open up new vistas for students. Can you turn the volume up? (=in the top or bottom half of your body) Lota was paralysed from the waist down.
Lota was paralysed from the waist down. Wake up (=give me your attention) at the back there! That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). British English I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall.
I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall. Pat wrapped the baby up warmly. It’s your turn to do the washing-up, Sam. We’re still weighing up the pros and cons (=the advantages and disadvantages) of the two options. I felt tears well up in my eyes. They’ll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book. (=achieve a win)· Escude has now notched up three consecutive wins over him.
(also the wind gets up British English) (=becomes stronger)· The rain beat down and the wind was picking up.
It’s time to wind things up – I have a plane to catch. (=open or shut the window in a car)· Lucy rolled the window down and waved to him.
(=try to find it in a book)· I looked the word up in my dictionary.
She had worked herself up into a state. You shouldn’t get so worked up about it. The commission has set up a special working group to look at the problem. Make sure you wrap up warm – it’s freezing. The play got a really good write-up (=it was praised) in the press. Your zip’s undone at the back.· The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.· Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.· Sometimes the parents upped the ante.· The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.
· From what Silver has said they have been constantly upping their offer.· Hull yesterday upped their offer to £140,000 for Featherstone's tour scrum half Deryck Fox.
· It's half-term this week and holiday companies have upped the price of trips abroad by an astonishing 50 per cent.
· Which sort of sums up the business.
VERB· The phone keeps up its stop-and-start ringing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► have an ace up your sleeve► back somebody/something ↔ up► back somebody/something ↔ up► beat somebody ↔ up► beat yourself up► big up (to/for) somebody► big it up► somebody’s blood is up► blow something ↔ up► blow something ↔ up► boil something ↔ up► pull/haul yourself up by your bootstraps► bottoms up!► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break something ↔ up► break somebody up► bring somebody up short/with a start► buck up!► build something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build somebody/something ↔ up► build up somebody’s hopes► be bunged up► burn something ↔ up► burn somebody up► burn something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► bust something ↔ up► call something ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call somebody ↔ up► call something ↔ up► camp it up► have another card up your sleeve► chalk it up to experience► cheer something ↔ up► choke something ↔ up► choke somebody up► churn something ↔ up► churn something ↔ up► clean something ↔ up► clear something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close something ↔ up► close up/up close/close to► coming (right) up!► wrap somebody (up) in cotton wool► cough something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► cover something ↔ up► something is not all/everything it’s cracked up to be► take up the cudgels (on behalf of somebody/something)► cut something ↔ up► cut somebody/something ↔ up► cut somebody ↔ up► be badly cut up► look/feel like death warmed up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do something ↔ up► do yourself up► draw yourself up (to your full height)► draw something ↔ up► pull up the drawbridge► dress something ↔ up► be drugged up to the eyeballs► be up to your ears in work/debt/problems etc► eat something ↔ up► be eaten up with/by jealousy/anger/curiosity etc► be up to your eyes in something► up to the/your eyeballs in something► drugged/doped up to the eyeballs► put up a good fight► fill yourself (up)/fill your face► fill somebody up► put two fingers up at somebody► finish something ↔ up► first up► go up in flames/burst into flames► foul something ↔ up► in (the) front/up front► fuck somebody ↔ up► make a fuss/kick up a fuss (about something)► the game’s up► gather somebody to you/gather somebody up► pick up/take up the gauntlet► gee somebody ↔ up► gee up!► give something ↔ up► give up something► give something/somebody ↔ up► give somebody ↔ up► give it up for somebody► grow up!► be up a gum tree► be gunged up with something► be gunked up (with something)► hang something ↔ up► hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc► heads up!► get/build up a head of steam► hold something ↔ up► hold somebody/something ↔ up► hold up something► hook somebody up with something► be hung-up about/on something► hurry somebody/something up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► keep something ↔ up► be up with the lark► laugh up your sleeve► lay something ↔ up► lead somebody up the garden path► make up leeway► lever yourself up► light something ↔ up► light something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► line somebody/something ↔ up► line something ↔ up► liven something ↔ up► lock something ↔ up► lock somebody ↔ up► look something ↔ up► look somebody ↔ up► be made up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► be made up to captain/manager etc► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make something ↔ up► make somebody ↔ up► somebody’s make-up► not up to the mark► match somebody/something ↔ up► match up to somebody’s hopes/expectations/ideals etc► mess something ↔ up► mess something ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► mess somebody ↔ up► make up your mind/make your mind up► up north► somebody’s number comes up► be one up (on somebody)/get one up on somebody► open something ↔ up► open something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► pack something ↔ up► be penned up/in► turn up like a bad penny► pick something/somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick something ↔ up► pick somebody ↔ up► pile something ↔ up► go piss up a rope!► play something ↔ up► play (somebody) up► play (somebody) up► pop-up restaurant/bar/shop etc► prick (up) its ears► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put something ↔ up► put up something► put something up► put somebody ↔ up► put up or shut up► ring something ↔ up► roll a window up► roll up!► come out of something/come up smelling of roses► be coming up roses► rub somebody up the wrong way► run something ↔ up► run something ↔ up► screw something ↔ up► screw somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody ↔ up► set somebody up► set somebody ↔ up► set something ↔ up► shape up or ship out► take/put up with shit (from somebody)► shoot somebody/something ↔ up► show something ↔ up► show somebody ↔ up► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► sign somebody ↔ up► sit somebody up► take up/pick up the slack► split something ↔ up► square up to somebody/something► stack something ↔ up► stand somebody up► step something ↔ up► stick 'em up► stoke something ↔ up► stoke up something► stoke up on/with something► stop something ↔ up► straighten something ↔ up► suck it up► sum something ↔ up► sum something ↔ up► sum somebody/something ↔ up► sweep somebody ↔ up► take something ↔ up► take something up► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take up something► take something ↔ up► take something ↔ up► tart yourself up/get tarted up► tear up an agreement/contract etc► tear it up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► throw something ↔ up► tie somebody ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► tie something ↔ up► not have much up top► somebody is up to their (old) tricks► tune something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► turn something ↔ up► a turn-up for the book(s)► Wait up!► warm-ups► wash something ↔ up► put the wind up somebody/get the wind up► wind something ↔ up► wind somebody ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► wind something ↔ up► work up enthusiasm/interest/courage etc► work up an appetite/a thirst/a sweat► work somebody up► work something ↔ up► go up/come down in the world► wrap something ↔ up► the wrong way up
- There were a few things in his story that didn't add up.
- Why had she left the note? It just didn't add up.
- Although these sonatas do not add up to music of enormous consequence, Schultz and Schenkman bestow royal treatment upon them.
- His promises do not add up.
- Now at first glance these figures do not add up.
- The Opposition can not add up.
- The Racal twins: their share prices just do not add up Outlook.
- The right hon. Gentleman's priorities do not add up and he knows it.
- They were suspicious about my past, my age and a picture of me that simply did not add up.
- Still, it all adds up to an interesting polemic.
- Twenty hours, $ 14m and 33 actors-it all adds up to..
- A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.
- And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?
- At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
- Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.
- In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.
- The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.
- Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.
- What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.
- I might be going on a training course next week, but it's still up in the air.
- Our trip to Orlando is still up in the air.
- They still haven't said if I've got the job -- it's all up in the air at the moment.
- But they were up in the air, and they were moving.
- If I don't work to a routine then I feel everything is up in the air!
- It was wonderful to be up in the air and to feel the air swishing past his face.
- When he was up in the air he was engaged, his spirits prospered and his intellect was keener than a needle.
- It's all up for you then.
- The job sounds right up your alley.
- She said, I will tell you this Bobby Kennedy is right up my alley.
- Sanctions upped the ante considerably in the Middle East crisis.
- Creating an economic asset in the form of a parental dividend would obviously up the ante in these kinds of contentious issues.
- Logan said, referring to the Colorado Avalanche star whose $ 21-million contract upped the ante for Kariya.
- Looking to the future, however, the Forest Service decided to up the ante next time around.
- Palmer's contribution was to up the ante.
- Sometimes the parents upped the ante.
- The group mind plays Pong so well that Carpenter decides to up the ante.
- The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.
- What they are now doing is compromising, in this half-baked manner, by raising the ante to 70.
- For now, I can keep up appearances and still go to the same restaurants as my friends.
- Of course, he tries to keep up appearances, but he lives entirely off borrowed money.
- She put Christmas decorations in the window just to keep up appearances.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Pine Valley residents are up in arms about plans to build a prison in the area.
- Residents are up in arms about plans for a new road along the beach.
- And already fans are up in arms.
- But it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it.
- Civil libertarians would be up in arms but it would mean fewer animals whose final romp is into a killing-room.
- John Adams decided that everyone but Episcopalians was up in arms against the new tax law.
- Mavis Bramley was up in arms about the woman from Oldham.
- The association's members were up in arms.
- Those people would be up in arms.
- Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report.
- He treats everyone like children, and that's why he puts people's backs up.
- It really gets my back up when salesmen call round to the house.
- At Eagle Butte I stopped and got a clamp, got the pipe back up there some way.
- He had been around the scene for long enough to know how to manipulate meetings without getting everyone's back up.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- She'd even got Bert's back up proper, over his betting and poor old Floss.
- Simon naturally put people's backs up.
- You got to get back up.
- We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
- You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
- Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
- Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
- However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
- In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
- People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
- They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
- I used to beat up on my brothers when we were kids.
- Everybody beat up on him because he made the team.
- She's never going to get anywhere if she tries to beat up on males, especially a catch like me.
- There was no need to take the time to beat up on the new pioneers.
- They just love beating up on architects.
- Tim's business went belly up in 1993.
- Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.
- Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.
- Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
- This case has been blown totally out of proportion because of the media attention.
- The issue was blown far out of proportion.
- It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.
- Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.
- Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.
- But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
- Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
- Liable blow up in their faces.
- Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.
- Nothing of its kind had ever been done before, and it could have blown up in his face.
- When the clothes iron blows up in your face.
- I'm all booked up this week, but I can see you on Monday.
- Both of the safari buses were booked up solid for the month after that.
- But all flights were booked up.
- His courses in Wengen and Tignes can be booked up through Supertravel: 01-584 5060.
- Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre.
- So it's no surprise that a safety seminar for women was booked up within days of being announced.
- Because the Saints gave an economic boost to the young state, Illinoisans at first greeted them congenially.
- Cally had been intimidated by the occasion and Jen wanted to give her a boost.
- Fishing industry lands a big boost Scarborough's fishing industry has been given a big boost thanks to shoals of scallops.
- He says the government's turnaround on interest and exchange rate policies should give an extra boost to Christmas trading too.
- His defeat gives a further boost to Mr Kinnock's already overriding executive majority.
- It gave her confidence a boost to know that she had spotted him, and it made her actions easy.
- This will give a further boost to the economy.
- This will help to cut pollution and save energy and give a valuable boost to the housing market.
- Jim's too bound up in his own worries to be able to help us.
- The history of music is, of course, bound up with the development of musical instruments.
- All our limitations are bound up in our intellectual mind with its boundaries and imperfections and its tendency to emotional distortion.
- Although activists take on global economic and political issues, their affiliations, allegiances and loyalties are bound up in local communities.
- Extension cords that looked frayed or suspicious were bound up in Scotch cellophane tape.
- Moral and economic rights are bound up in the concept of copyright.
- More usually, the body was bound up in a folded position, with the knees under the chin.
- The victim of horrendous physical and emotional abuse, she was failed by all those who were bound up in her care.
- These very weak stones are rich in water, which is bound up in both hydrated salts and clay minerals.
- A most sacred obligation was bound up with a most atrocious crime.
- According to a long and dominant tradition, the physical is bound up with the spatial.
- But they were important in their time, and their families were bound up with Fred Taylor all his life.
- Human rights in general and the right to communicate in particular are bound up with the notion of democracy.
- It is bound up with the family as a whole.
- The doctrine of precedent is bound up with the need for a reliable system of law reporting.
- This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality.
- Meanwhile, both Severiano Ballesteros and Jose-Maria Olazabal had bucked their ideas up.
- Although it was cold and the air was running out, she was burning up.
- In the on-line world, customers were burning up the lines.
- In these circumstances, it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day.
- Think about the calories you are burning up - 200 for every 30 minute walk!
- We get caught up in the commercial aspects of Christmas.
- And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
- I am painfully aware of how we get caught up in our times and become contaminated by our own hypocrisy.
- I thought at one time it might be caught up in the Christmas post.
- Kenetech got caught up in that.
- Landowners who get caught up in this bureaucratic runaround receive no compensation for their economic loss as a result of wetland determination.
- Rather than just evolving in a gradual, uniform manner, the earth may actually be caught up in a repeating cycle.
- Some of these girls get caught up in this freedom idea.
- When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.
- Keep your chin up! We'll get through this together!
- Gwen finally told her troubled son to clean up his act or get out of her house.
- She told her son to clean up his act or move out.
- Tish has really cleaned up her act - she doesn't drink or smoke pot any more.
- But he eventually sees their potential and cleans up his act just in time.
- Citibank insists it has cleaned up its act.
- Despite Mr Haider's grandiose, unbelievable last-minute pledges to clean up his act, there should be no wavering.
- Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act.
- Legislation aimed at forcing the power firms to clean up their act is being fought tooth and nail by the polluters.
- More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights.
- Naming and shaming remains an option should the company not clean up its act.
- The industry was effectively warned to clean up its act or face legislation.
- Finnegan's Bar is closing up shop after 35 years.
- Some of the big ad agencies close up shop early for the holidays.
- A few companies closed up shop in California.
- And retailers, caught betwixt the two, were perplexed and losing money, if not closing up shop for good.
- At one stage, he considered closing up shop for good.
- A light suddenly comes on in the closet, revealing the hidden police officers Loach and Escobar.
- Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.
- It sometimes comes on in the open air.
- It sounded good, it felt good to say, it made lights come on in my mouth.
- Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open.
- Street lights were starting to come on in the distance, crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange.
- Suddenly, all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in.
- Sure, I said, come on over.
- Alison's birthday is coming up.
- Don't forget you've got exams coming up in a couple of weeks' time.
- Don't forget you have a test coming up on Thursday.
- I'm pretty busy right now -- I have exams coming up next week.
- Our 12th annual Folk Festival is coming up again soon.
- With Christmas coming up, we didn't have much spare money.
- Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.
- Gripping the over head chrome rail, he stooped forward as if to see what street was coming up.
- Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct.
- Some faces shone white in the moonlight that was coming up behind a copse.
- The sun was coming up as we drove away from Sobey's.
- The sun was coming up, or had already come up, and the heavy mists wore a pearlescent glow.
- The wind was coming up and there was weather to port. ` Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes.
- When I got out of prison again I went to a hostel in Manchester and he was coming up there all the time.
- BUndeterred, the group is revising its proposal and plans to contest every license that comes up for review.
- At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election.
- It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years.
- A period when he was almost dead is coming up to the surface.
- He had a horrible premonition that she was coming up to Rome.
- Manion was coming up to his freeway exit.
- High ranking military men were covering up for the murderers.
- And start covering up for them.
- By lying and covering up for her husband, the wife provides negative reinforcement for his violence.
- Heaven only knows what else you've done that Paige has covered up for.
- The persistent tendency to cover up for our lack of effectiveness by using vague language must be strongly resisted.
- All those crack shits shooting up the streets?
- It nearly cracked me up and he could see what it did to me.
- It used to crack me up.
- It was funny, he cracked me up last night.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- Most of the humor consists of watching Shore crack himself up with his own Valley garble.
- The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up.
- I'll really be up the creek if I don't get paid this week.
- Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek.
- What he learned from that interview was that Graham Ross was up the creek without a paddle.
- But he can cut up rough and turn a bit nasty if he's got a mind to.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- Some recent columns have gotten readers' dander up.
- I paint her face and do her hair.
- I said, I did, I was approached about who does your hair?
- It's to do with the hair.
- Now, do you want me to do your make-up, or not?
- One test of our response to the change made by age is what we decide to do about grey hair.
- She said that the day of the wedding, she should do my hair first.
- The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.
- Across the world, or two doors down the corridor.
- Freda Berkeley misses her and another neighbour, the writer Patrick Kinross, who lived two doors away.
- He thanked the colonel for the interview and returned doggedly to his pistol lessons in the basement range two doors away.
- He tried the house opposite, and was told two doors down.
- I took the keenest pleasure in expelling Phetlock from my old office, two doors down from the Oval.
- Mr Potts and the matrons left them in the church and went to stay two doors away, in a hotel.
- The guest room's two doors down the corridor.
- The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away.
- I still half expect the food to be doped.
- In February five greyhounds were found to be doped after an £60,000 multi-bet coup in the first race at Canterbury.
- Kerr-McGee charged she was doped up with Quaaludes.
- Everything that can be dragged up as a skeleton on Mugabe and his underlings must be dragged up.
- Her frozen limbs were dragged up an impressively wide staircase and then along a hallway.
- I assume a lot of people will laugh at Morrissey for this and the Glastonbury thing will be dragged up again.
- The whale will be dragged up its main ramp and butchered.
- In the funereal chill Vassily drew up a chair and poured us both a drink.
- Marshall drew up a chair for her.
- Mr Browning drew up a chair for her, as nice as could be, and sat down himself.
- When they reached the cafe, Zeinab drew up a chair beside Hargazy.
- He drew his knees up, preparing himself to fight off any further attack.
- Paige drew her knees up inside the bag, resting her chin on them.
- Now, remember the elegant woman, always dressed to the nines, with the infectious laugh.
- It helped them keep their end up in battle, too, claim historians.
- It is difficult to get skips in this age group capable of keeping their end up at this level of competition.
- Richter kept his end up by arranging a press visit to Huemul Island on 21 June, 1951.
- Stein is up to his eyebrows in debt.
- He fell across the wall, twisting, face up.
- If convicted, they face up to a year in jail and up to a $ 2, 500 fine.
- If found guilty, he could face up to two years in jail.
- It took time until she could face up to it.
- Sabit Brokaj of the Socialist Party faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
- We must face up to this.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and hold them as high as possible.
- With palms facing upwards, take your arms behind you and pull them towards each other 35 times.
- But at the rear, in his camels-hair coat, filling up a comer with his huge body, he was standing.
- Fast cars drink petrol, and if you don't fill up often, your roses will become stranded with empty tanks.
- From where Nathan was sitting, in a chapel adjacent to the altar, he could hear the cathedral filling up.
- He can fill up the lane, earn his minutes and his keep just by being big.
- The doc says her lungs are all filled up with water.
- The space between them was filling up with unasked and unanswered questions.
- To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
- Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
- Well, at least put your feet up for a few minutes. Would you like a drink?
- When you're pregnant and doing a full-time job, you must find time to put your feet up.
- E for elevation, otherwise known as putting your feet up.
- He pushed the ottoman over and I put my feet up.
- He says it gave him time to put his feet up and relax.
- Take off your coat and put your feet up.
- Tammuz had dimmed the lights, put his feet up, and asked the computer to tune in the wall-screen.
- That boy needs a lot of teaching, he thought, putting his feet up.
- Then he put his feet up on the bench and snored for ten minutes.
- He's always up front and willing to admit his mistakes.
- I paid the builders £100 up front and will give them the rest when the job's finished.
- I told you up front that I didn't want to be in a relationship with anyone.
- Karen is always very up front with her boyfriends.
- The company's directors have been surprisingly up front about their financial problems.
- The only people who laughed were the American soldiers who sat up front.
- We've got to have the money up front before we can do anything.
- We've had so many unpaid bills that we've started to demand payment up front.
- Why don't you sit up front with the driver so you can give him directions.
- Any damned fool can get a plane up in the air.
- He could get caught up in the story, so to speak, and little by little begin to forget himself.
- I dreaded to think what would happen if the two got mixed up.
- I fell down, knocked me walking-frame over and I couldn't get meself up again.
- If you get his/her back up, even if you're right, you're dead!
- Left unstirred, simmering soup will produce a scum that gets caught up in the eddies.
- While attached to Camp Pendleton, however, the Gulf War veteran got swept up in an off-base drug scene.
- Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.
- More visionary railway schemes were got up in the inter-war years.
- And she's got it up top, an' all.
- Energy in one form or another has been invested in it to get it up there.
- He'd see it raise slightly, but he couldn't quite get it up.
- Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.
- She won't be able to get it up on her own anyway.
- My old car's finally given up the ghost.
- Doctors said that while his heart was fine, his vascular system had given up the ghost.
- Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again.
- He would ordinarily blow out the candle and give up the ghost.
- The spores do germinate, go through a few perfunctory cell divisions, then give up the ghost.
- They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost.
- This is the gentler way: convince the mind the body's dead and it gives up the ghost.
- What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey.
- With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
- I'm girding up my loins for battle on this tax issue.
- We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London.
- But then, why give them up so abruptly?
- But we would not give it up without a desperate struggle.
- He is not going to give that up.
- I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
- I kept starting new regimes, then finding I couldn't give them up.
- In return for our consent, he swore he would give it up the day after he won the election.
- That's why I want to give it up for adoption.
- After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
- Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
- It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
- On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
- Anyone waiting around on street corners at night must be up to no good.
- If you ask me, that husband of hers is up to no good.
- She knew that her brother was up to no good but she didn't tell anyone.
- Those guys look like they're up to no good.
- Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.
- Before long the entire paper industry is up for grabs.
- But the software, particularly the interface, was up for grabs.
- Canary Wharf was up for grabs.
- Howe said Doug Johns is his fifth starter, but the fourth slot is up for grabs.
- I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.
- Regional and runners-up prizes will also be up for grabs.
- The lower house of Congress also is up for grabs in the July elections.
- This is the process whereby every scrap of green land in a town is up for grabs by development.
- Every year Dad puts on his Santa suit and hams it up for the kids.
- For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
- Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.
- Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently.
- He brought his hands up to the typewriter keys and forced himself to begin.
- She threw her hands up in the air and leaned back, stretching, arching her chest upward.
- Singer put both hands up before his face, arms outstretched; he was begging.
- Sometimes you have got to hold your hands up and accept that certain players are not right for you.
- The next minute the grenade thrower appeared with his hands up.
- The police mounted an early-morning assault on his office, and Mr Bucaram came running out with his hands up.
- Annie hauls herself out of her chair, nets a shiner from the tank, and throws it out the screen door.
- Next day I hauled myself out of bed, took breakfast and got into the truck about a quarter to six.
- He had held up his head in the most exalted company.
- How does he hold up his head if he knows his wife is deceiving him?
- As a baby she may have had a hard time holding her head up, for example.
- Her own cheeks had gone pale; her lids drooped over her eyes; she held her head up in her hand.
- How else could a girl hold her head up in her family?
- However, Linfield can hold their heads up high.
- Just holding my head up like that.
- Remember this when the pace hots up!
- He rarely left the Brooklyn apartment where he had set up house.
- Her parents were very upset when she set up house with her boyfriend.
- They first set up house together in Atlanta and moved to Miami three years later.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Diana and I were soon to set up house in Shepherd's Bush and our fortunes were inextricable for the next decade.
- He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country.
- I have to save enough money to set up house.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- They set up house in No. 93, which was now to let.
- Hurry up - we're late!
- For in fact political theories, doctrines or ideologies, and political action are inextricably bound up with each other.
- In her mind the murder and the attack at the Chagall museum were inextricably bound up with the secret of the Durances.
- It makes you understand that you are inextricably bound up with each other and that your fortunes depend on one another.
- Within the workplace inequality and conflict are inextricably bound up, irrespective of the relationship between particular managements and workforces.
- Arnold would keep us all up with his long, rambling stories.
- I'm often kept up by the noise of laughter and music from next door.
- Crusty Bill boasts he's on a spicy vegetarian diet to keep his strength up for love.
- During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
- He had a strong sense of humour, and kept his spirits up.
- I had to keep my strength up.
- I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
- She ate a little to keep her strength up.
- A travel iron is useful for keeping up appearances on holiday.
- All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them.
- He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
- Man on the move Everything a man need to keep up appearances while he's away from home.
- She just wanted to keep up appearances for the kids.
- Sometimes a mood, or a phase of the menstrual cycle, will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances.
- They spend all they have to keep up appearances.
- We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
- Women in cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels before an audience of 24,000.
- BThey kicked up their heels, spun, twirled and got down till dawn.
- But perhaps you too are kicking up your heels elsewhere by now.
- She deserves to kick up her heels.
- This is your chance to kick up your heels and support this group of anonymous women artists.
- Women in white boots, short shorts and frilly cowgirl outfits kicked up their heels on it.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It might be partly because I didn't kick up a fuss when I lost the captaincy.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
- He was gormless, spoke in a funny nasal accent and looked as if he could do with a kick up the backside.
- I think I just needed a kick up the backside.
- They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.
- A rock so large it must have taken two hands to lift it hit me on the jaw.
- His determination is underpinned by a belief that the problem, nomatterhow large it appears to be, can be overcome.
- I was surprised by how large it was.
- If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer.
- It was looking at me and I marveled at how very large it was.
- Some bring aboard luggage so large it has its own wheels.
- The load was so large it took 15 agents more than an hour to unpack it.
- With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree.
- All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin's hoard was laid up for winter's sustenance.
- How much land must you commit to arable rotation, and how much must be laid up for hay or silage?
- I don't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle.
- In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months.
- It was, and Venturous was laid up at Buckie for nearly ten months while new Cummins engines were fitted.
- Large numbers of nuclear-powered submarines are laid up at a harbour near Murmansk.
- She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up.
- The barges, designed to be sailed by one man and a boy, could be laid up in a few days.
- Joining the Visa network would give it the leg-up it needs.
- Hey, lighten up! It's only a game, you know!
- Lisa was living it up like she didn't have a care in the world.
- Accountant used cash to live it up.
- I am living it up with Survage at the Coq d'Or.
- It's no good looking for a man's body round here if the owner's living it up in Costa Rica.
- The trim is the shirt; here you can live it up, get a touch more fashionable.
- They lived it up while they were on Earth.
- This contented canine's living it up.
- Under a false identity, he's living it up in Florence, dining out with the aristocracy.
- All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.
- His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.
- I was locked up for nine years, you know that?
- It was locked up somewhere round at the back.
- Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.
- That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.
- "Don't be silly - you don't need to lose weight," he said, looking her up and down.
- The hotel manager slowly looked the old man up and down and then asked him to leave.
- Every day after the first two weeks I would look anxiously up and down the road, hoping to see their car.
- Raul looked him up and down, eyes opened wide with derision.
- Ron Barton looked her up and down.
- She looked him up and down.
- She stood there, looking Sherman up and down, as if she were angry.
- The eaters were lo-cals; they looked us up and down when we went in.
- The guy looked him up and down and then something clicked.
- He's girl crazy! He went to a boys' school and now he's making up for lost time.
- The bus driver was speeding to make up for lost time.
- After a century or so of political apathy, Hong Kong's young people were making up for lost time.
- He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically.
- Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life, making up for lost time.
- None the less, we immediately started our other meetings to make up for lost time.
- Once I settled into my new life, I did everything I could to make up for lost time.
- Time to make up for lost time.
- For example, a 70 year old person living alone would have their income made up to £53.40 a week.
- He would make it up to him, the rector thought.
- In California, people making up to $ 40,000 a year qualify for help.
- Not so much eating it, really, as making up to it.
- The company stands to make up to £7m in fees if it offloads the Dome quickly.
- Ecosystems in the wild are made up of patches.
- I've given him until tomorrow morning to make up his mind.
- It is these that make up the matter we see today and out of which we ourselves are made.
- It was along this thread of a path that Mary made up her mind to go.
- The remaining budget was made up by personal contributions-student loans!-from the team members.
- This contains the pattern of dots that, when printed on paper, will make up the actual character.
- Add the ginger wine and, finally, the stem ginger, mixing it in very thoroughly.
- He did an excellent job getting some steals, mixing it up and changing the complexion of the game.
- I thought we might mix it up this year and try some blues.
- Once the required colour has been mixed it is then stored in the palette for use at any time.
- Out the window, the last bit of sunlight mixed it up with the lights from the parking lot.
- They can't wait to mix it with the opposition!
- Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.
- You may find as you mix it that you need to add a bit more water.
- A straight-laced Wall Street banker gets mixed up in one ludicrous misunderstanding after another in George Gallo's screwball comedy.
- Everything else about this journey is starting to get mixed up in my head.
- He defended me and Eddie when we got mixed up in a couple of scrapes.
- He had to be mixed up in the Cicero Club.
- Her son's got mixed up in it, probably demonstrated yesterday with the Socialists outside the Town Hall.
- I still do not want to get mixed up in any Indochina decision...
- It was nothing to do with her, and whatever it was she didn't want to be mixed up in it.
- We weren't going to get mixed up in a job, when we were going home off duty.
- Answer: She would never have got mixed up with him in the first place.
- But this all gets mixed up with motivation too: the horse must be motivated to learn.
- I am beginning to get mixed up with the days of the month.
- It's an odd business and it seems to be mixed up with Edwin Garland's will.
- Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last.
- Then Conley got mixed up with Charlie Keating and somehow lost millions of dollars, eventually ending up bankrupt.
- Trust Auguste to get mixed up with it.
- We used to get mixed up with the fight.
- Working conditions may not be up to much, and as a casual employee you can be fired at short notice.
- We were up to our necks in problems with the Apollo program.
- Like Patsy Kensit, I was up to my neck in oasis.
- The party is up to its neck in a scandal over alleged illegal purloining of confidential police files on rivals.
- Darren comes to stay with Nikki and is quick to get up the nose of everyone he meets.
- Even reading your horoscope can get up your nose.
- I didn't realise it would get up your nose so quickly and so far.
- I took her to my room, so that her feathers wouldn't get up Mum's nose.
- It had got up Rufus's nose a bit, though Adam had a perfect right to do this.
- Many professors turn their noses up at television.
- Time and again he had to turn his nose up into the arch of the drain to keep from drowning.
- This could be the year a lot of politicians find their number is up.
- When my number is up, I want it to be quick.
- Competition prize winners Kathryn Winkler of Dundee, your lucky number is up.
- After offering a prayer, the virgin expired.
- Can you find somewhere to offer up a prayer? 36.
- Each morning the strike council opened business by some one offering a prayer.
- So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
- They found him and his sons on the shore offering a sacrifice to Poseidon.
- Again the opening up of public procurement procedures should result in a significant increase in intra-EC trade and industry re-structuring.
- By 1895 she had attained the opening up of Lincoln's Inn Fields to the poor.
- Over the next generation the first phase of the opening up of inland industrial Britain proceeded.
- Searching out high-quality old timber is a big factor in the opening up of pristine forests.
- Taylor said the opening up of opportunities for minorities in television would lead to more opportunities in films.
- The combination of these influences has encouraged the opening up of the airwaves to competition.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- Are you now a fully paid-up member of the new economy?
- At the moment I would describe him as a fully paid-up member of the politically embarrassed tendency.
- He comes over as what he might well be - a paid-up member, if not a capo, in the Mafia.
- Listen to that big-mouthed gilgul, acting like she's a fully paid-up member of the team.
- The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival.
- Thus, Milwaukee-based guitarist Daryl Stuermer became a fully paid-up member of the Genesis live auxiliaries.
- When I read of his death in 1986 he was still a paid-up member of ours.
- It's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up, looking on the best side of things.
- Carol picked herself up and dusted herself off.
- A team in such a position is likely to find it hard to pick itself up.
- Although he picked himself up and walked away, he knew something was wrong.
- He picked himself up and staggered down a corridor.
- However, Grimm was already picking himself up, swearing, dusting himself off, retrieving his cap.
- I crashed to the ground, picked myself up, and began staggering around the car to the other side.
- I fell, picked myself up, lurched forward another yard or two, then fell again.
- Shaken and deafened, I picked myself up.
- Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again.
- As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Of course, good melody will sound fine at any tempo, so play slowly and gradually pick up speed.
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- The coach picked up speed as it rattled and jolted down to Forty-second Street.
- The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.
- The company's picking up the bill for my trip to Hawaii.
- After its shareholder equity turned negative last year, parent Dasa started picking up the bills.
- But remember - raid your savings now and Santa won't pick up the bill.
- Everything depended on contributors picking up the bill in ten, twenty or thirty years.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- There is a growing, often unstated, anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- The town is beginning to pick up the pieces after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
- As proved by history, women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war.
- I picked up the pieces myself.
- In her motherly concerned way, she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life.
- In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives.
- It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces.
- Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees, picking up the pieces, moaning softly.
- This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces.
- Whimper like a whipped puppy, Jay, have a drink and pick up the pieces.
- The good thing is that he's trying to pick up the threads of his life again.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- Ronnie, stop shuffling and pick your feet up.
- A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday.
- He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action.
- We used to keep it round Nezzer Eyres's and pick it up on Sundays when we wanted it.
- When they went off the air in the evening, I picked it up on my program.
- After a while, too, some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him.
- But eventually, he plucked up courage to see a solicitor.
- But why not pluck up the courage to do what you've always wanted?
- Eventually I plucked up courage and booked a ticket to Amsterdam with the sole purpose of getting laid.
- I think you should pluck up the courage to invite him out.
- Kent suspected that if the fellow ever did pluck up courage to call he would be disappointed.
- Nelly begged me not to leave her, and plucking up courage I stayed.
- On three occasions he had plucked up the courage to call her, but had never had a reply.
- That's true, up to a point.
- And, up to a point, the conventional wisdom is right.
- I could be perfectly reasonable up to a point, but Cynthia Kay had gone too far.
- Planning may be useful, but only up to a point.
- She was, up to a point.
- That is true, but only up to a point.
- The curriculum would follow the classical model, though only up to a point.
- The snorer knows that actual suffering is the lot of some one near and, up to a point, dear.
- Robert Sabuda is fast gaining a reputation as a master of the art of making intricate and appealing pop-up books.
- For that reason, he rejected pop-up windows.
- One pleasing exception is the new pop-up menu feature.
- Henry pushed his door open a crack, and pricked up his ears.
- I pricked my ears up on that one.
- I pricked up my ears, and sure enough, the sound was getting louder.
- The boy pricked up his ears, because, as it happened, so they were this earth.
- The horse, scenting home and supper, pricked his ears and stepped out.
- I propped myself up against a wall and took a deep breath.
- The soldier tried to prop himself up again using his crutches.
- Bernice propped herself up and took a bite.
- Brian propped himself up on his elbows, suddenly remembering that the alarm had gone off.
- He props himself up on one elbow.
- Hefinished the last rep and propped himself up on his elbows.
- I could see Peter shaking his head in the fairway, as he propped himself up on his sand wedge.
- Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow, watching.
- She stretched and propped herself up on an elbow, aware that something was not quite right.
- We're full of doubts and we try to prop each other up.
- Anyway, I pull up a chair by the bed and say hello.
- He pulls up a chair as she starts another game.
- He now pulled up a chair and, turning it about, sat on it, his elbows resting on the back.
- Rose, Victorine, Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to.
- She pulls up a stool and sits down next to us, watching intently, still unable to stifle her laughter.
- I felt I had to pull her up on her lateness.
- Our teachers are always pulling us up for wearing the wrong uniform.
- Behind Duvall, Jimmy could see that Barbara was pulling herself to her feet.
- Granny pulled herself to her feet and tottered over to the bench, where Hodgesaargh had left his jar of flame.
- On March 4 she caught hold of the end of her buggy and twice pulled herself to her feet.
- Weary now that the excitement of the film was no longer sweeping her along, she pulled herself to her feet.
- Whitlock pulled himself to his feet and winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg.
- It's lucky I was sent here, to Hepzibah, or I'd be pushing up daisies.
- "Where are you staying?" "Carole's putting us up for a couple of days."
- They put me up in the spare room for a few days while I sorted things out.
- By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
- Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
- I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
- I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
- Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
- Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
- The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
- In other days Managers would have put up an argument as to the folly of this approach by Management.
- Dad was bringing up the rear to make sure no one got lost.
- The funeral hearse was followed by cars full of friends, and a company of Life Guards brought up the rear.
- We all followed our guide up the path, Marcus and I bringing up the rear.
- Chivvying the staff of the Villa Russe into the tea room with refreshments, Auguste brought up the rear.
- Four men-at-arms rode alongside, and bringing up the rear was another monk herding a flock of sheep and goats.
- He led the way, followed by an ebullient Christina and Elaine, with James sullenly bringing up the rear.
- He was tired of bringing up the rear in the march of civilization.
- One by one they climbed in, Delaney first, Nell in the middle, with Andrevitch bringing up the rear.
- The unmistakable figure of the immaculate Captain Trentham brought up the rear.
- They fall in beside him and start up the hill to the induction center, the cop bringing up the rear.
- He left the country in December to take up residence in Panama.
- In 1951 he took up residence in Chicago.
- In 1953 Diem took up residence at a monastery in Belgium.
- He's about to take up residence at Hertford College, Oxford.
- He was only a few weeks away from his ninetieth birthday when pneumonia again took up residence in his weary lungs.
- In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden.
- One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche's garden.
- The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir.
- The labs' distant agents are Kurds who have taken up residence in the West.
- They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland.
- He was right up there on Herron Avenue.
- Northampton are right up there in second place.
- Number of sunny days is right up there for me, too.
- On the trauma scale, this was right up there with an automobile wreck.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- We've got a crisis on our hands, and we need to roll up our sleeves and do something about it.
- Boss Peter Wheeler conceives the cars, tests them himself and even rolls his sleeves up to help design them.
- In the second half, the Cherry and Whites rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in.
- For Gieves the tailors, the extent to which clients indulged in running up bills regardless had become extremely serious.
- Having run up a debt of over £100,000, they're unlikely to be forgotten by Virgin Records in a hurry.
- He spent 3 months there, running up bills of £30,000, as yet unpaid.
- If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it.
- It became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers.
- Model customers run up bills and pay in installments, with the high interest that makes the business so lucrative.
- The problem of running up debts to pay for the elderly is straight-forward.
- They continue to run up bills and never build equity in their house.
- These performances are part of the run-up to the Center's anniversary celebrations.
- Competition has hit a new high with many attractive offers in the run-up to Christmas.
- Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.
- Doubts about Mr Hague's longevity are not new, but are increasingly damaging in the run-up to an election.
- In the run-up to Christmas, their games are selling faster than ever.
- It said that in the run-up to an election, it would comment on planning opportunities based on pronouncements by political parties.
- Recently, they developed a roll of film found in Paul's old camera, taken in the run-up to the fighting.
- Sheila Geddes, Sid Clarke and all the others who had contributed their efforts in the run-up to the launch.
- The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.
- A growing number of workers are put on short-term contracts which are renewed only if their work is up to scratch.
- His grammar and accent were not up to scratch, and he kept running to the airport.
- So do feel free to change anything that strikes you as not up to scratch.
- That today's pop culture isn't up to scratch?
- The couple told stunned housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs.
- Blake screwed up his eyes, trying to peer through the fog.
- He screwed up his eyes against the light and Jurnet saw the gipsy in him.
- He screwed up his eyes and put his hands over his ears.
- He screwed up his face as the hot water from the kitchen tap scalded his hand.
- He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back.
- She screwed up her face and whispered: you're so revoltingly fat you disgusting baboon.
- But Janice's fear was so great she struggled through two more migraines before screwing up enough courage to try the injection.
- I eventually screwed up the courage to write to Richardson, pretending to be a drama student wanting advice.
- They scrunch up their faces, peering into the haze.
- Stephen King's novels have sent shivers up readers' spines for more than 20 years.
- He kicked her sending shivers up her spine; again she yelped, and everything turned black.
- We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
- He said, following his arrest last fall, that the FBI had set him up.
- Terry and Donald think I set them up, but it's all a big misunderstanding.
- After all, she was the one who'd set herself up as Jett's little helper.
- Everyone thinks he can set himself up as a dramatic critic.
- He set himself up as a one-man cult.
- It's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader.
- Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has, by its own proclamation, set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners.
- She was too young to be setting herself up as the devoted handmaiden to the great man.
- Why do they set themselves up as tradesmen if that's all they're going to do?
- All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
- And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
- Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
- Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
- The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
- These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
- Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
- Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
- Crickets set up a racket in trees out in the yard.
- IBM had the market for electric typewriters sewn up.
- For the lawyers have it all sewn up.
- The deal between the wholesaler and manufacturer will have been sewn up only minutes before Sanjay accepted his orders.
- To have lost a game against the local rivals that should have been sewn up was bad enough.
- Craig shinned down the rope to where we were standing.
- I locked myself out of the house and had to shinny up a drainpipe to get in.
- We watched as small boys shinned up palm trees and brought coconuts down.
- Boys and girls shinned up trees to 10p off branches.
- But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.
- Dave shinned up a handy conifer.
- He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.
- Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.
- No fire-escape, no convenient drainpipe anyone could shin up.
- Nothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.
- The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.
- His brother was eight and spent two days learning how to shinny up to the office.
- The boy panicked and tried more desperately to shinny up the mast.
- But it was his elf face which shot up.
- Fists shot up, some holding dinner pails in the air like flags.
- However, as soon as he struck off one of its heads another two shot up in its place.
- I righted myself and pain shot up my right leg as I put weight on it.
- If interest rates shoot up, stocks and bonds usually fall in price.
- The father nodded, his eyebrows shot up.
- Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them.
- Dr. Rosen closed his downtown practice and set up shop in a suburban neighborhood.
- Jack got his law degree, then set up shop as a real estate lawyer.
- At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting's Alley, which was near the Royal Exchange.
- Each failed when a dispute arose and some group walked out of the union to set up shop down the block.
- My body and the kindly Earth have set up shop against me.
- NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
- S., new steel mills are setting up shop.
- The two Yankees started the business set up shop right where you see it.
- Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- A moment later, realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity, she brought herself up short.
- A moment later, though, and she was bringing herself up short.
- But Blue brings himself up short, realizing that they have nothing really to do with Black.
- However, never bring a preclear up short on this material.
- She has a red face and a manner that pulls people up short.
- This brings us up short at the outset of our study.
- We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.
- He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.
- I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.
- If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.
- Judged by their own standards, they came up short.
- Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.
- Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.
- This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.
- We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
- He might have put up a good show the other day, but that was because he was frightened.
- She put up a better show in the 1980s.
- Just shut up, you two!
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Can't you shut those kids up?
- The only way to shut her up is to give her something to eat.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- Goddamn it, Eustis, can you just for once in your empty-headed, godforsaken life shut yourself up!
- He shut himself up in his palace and let matters go as they would.
- He claims it was a mole but I know it was him - what can I do to shut him up?
- I want to shut them up about the pound-for-pound thing.
- It goes on-this urge to shut people up.
- Parker punched his head to shut him up.
- The biggest appetite I had was for words, and these guys shut me up entirely.
- Unsettled by the riddle, Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace.
- But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
- I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
- It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
- Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
- They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
- Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
- We might just as well shut up shop.
- After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley.
- Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
- He sat up and stared at the sky in wonder.
- I sat up, wondering what the hell!
- I was still groggy, but I could sit up.
- Léonie sat up straight, tucked her feet to one side, put her hands round her knees.
- They sat up side by side in the bed, naked, listening, but Valerie no longer felt safe.
- I shall award a slap-up dinner at Jamash, our local Balti restaurant, to the winner.
- Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
- Smarten up! It's time for inspection.
- Jeremy, go smarten yourself up before dinner.
- She's smartening herself up in the ladies' room.
- Despite the encouraging figures, the Chunnel has prompted ferry companies to smarten up their act, and offer better deals.
- After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.
- Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.
- For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.
- If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?
- Its mosque went up in smoke.
- Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.
- That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.
- Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke.
- A few of these devices should be exploded every year to test whether the refurbishing is working up to snuff.
- It is the kind of work that museums do to conserve their furniture collections and bring their acquisitions up to snuff.
- Semiconductor, software and computer companies slumped in price because of concern that earnings may not be up to snuff.
- As well as soaking up the sun, Emma says she's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City.
- But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax, socialise and soak up the sun.
- Elena Fonti lay on the beach soaking up the sun.
- Others will take it easier, relax in the garden and soak up the sun.
- She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun.
- The perfect setting for relaxing and soaking up the sun.
- Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
- Without it, the green machinery that soaks up the sun's energy is starved.
- Maybe we needed to pull our socks up and we are trying to do just that.
- With 16 games to go Oxford have still got time to pull their socks up.
- You're not exactly a young lad any more so you've got to pull your socks up.
- You'll have to learn to speak up for yourself.
- Did they make fun of him for speaking up for the underdog in school?
- Ella Anderson speaks up for tulips.
- Erlend, six years younger, needed some one to speak up for him, sometimes.
- He was to celebrate the inauguration in Florida speaking up for the black voters who feel disenfranchised.
- If those with inside knowledge of the facts didn't speak up for Britain, who the hell would?
- My captor found no reply to this, but luckily a Monster Fish Maiden spoke up for him.
- She identified with them, spoke up for them, tackled situations others had avoided.
- Who actually speaks up for the vulnerable older person?
- For most newcomers to the rough-and-tumble Big East, it can take some time to get up to speed.
- I called some of my friends and asked them, informally to try to bring the two consultants up to speed.
- It may not be happening fast enough, but the winds of societal change take a while to get up to speed.
- It took the company a year to bring them up to speed.
- Thank you, George W.. Bush, for bringing the majority of voters up to speed.
- To bring consumers up to speed, telephone companies are revving up education campaigns.
- She had been continually up the spout, or over the moon, about some one or something.
- That's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill.
- Our family pulled up stakes every few years when Dad was in the Army.
- Moreover, when a business pulls up stakes or downsizes, an entire program can wither overnight.
- So, he pulled up stakes and moved to Allen County to oversee a farm.
- Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
- I do not want to stand up and be counted as a supporter of those demands.
- Those who admire her should stand up and be counted.
- We really need more help from you good men to stand up and be counted!
- But Dehlavi takes his time getting up steam, leaving a good 20 minutes of surplus slack in these two hours.
- Cons: Just when the bobsled builds up steam, brakes on the track slow it down.
- If the economy is picking up steam, the recovery may be nipped in the bud by renewed Fed tightening.
- Indications the economy may be picking up steam hurt bonds by sparking concern inflation may accelerate, eroding bonds' fixed payments.
- Millionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who is suddenly picking up steam?
- The black-out protest is expected to pick up steam after the president signs the bill.
- Do your homework before applying to permanently up sticks.
- He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them.
- I couldn't up sticks and away, which I might have done otherwise - regretting it afterwards.
- Maybe we up sticks and move to another, better part of the country to cool out.
- You will then have the right specimens ready and waiting whenever anyone decides to up sticks and move.
- It's financial clout that counts or, failing that, kicking up a stink.
- It's for your protection, so that you have the union behind you if Mellowes kicks up a stink.
- It will still contain plenty of business and mortgage borrowers to kick up a stink about base rates.
- Mahmud may have bought time for himself, but he stored up trouble for his successors.
- She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
- They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
- A thin crack running straight up the wall had appeared.
- At this point, the base of the golf club should point straight up into the air.
- Ben earns $10,000 a month, straight up.
- The rocket shot straight up and exploded overhead.
- The towers of the hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.
- This is your second time at this college, straight up?
- Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room.
- So, if that sounds up your street, get your Peak Performance subscription in soon!
- This sort of thing should be right up your street.
- At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
- Besides, Anna had struck up a conversation with a young girl who'd been swimming in the pool.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship.
- He struck up a conversation, first asking his name.
- He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Alone and friendless, she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin.
- Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
- I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
- Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
- Particularly with the Liberals, who struck up a sort of Bucharest-Ettrick Bridge accord.
- Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
- Shy but cordial friendships were struck up, which Mrs Thomlinson was powerless to prevent or subvert.
- The orchestra struck up a polonaise, the lights strung on trees glistened in the garden, the tables groaned with food.
- This was their task but that sums it up too simply.
- Airlines will have to pick up the tab for new safety regulations.
- Usually the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab for a publicity tour.
- We all went out to dinner, and Adam picked up the tab.
- He wouldn't pick up the tab for anyone else.
- I wonder to myself as I pick up the tab for breakfast.
- In addition, my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses.
- Normally, developers paying a barrister to represent them at an inquiry must pick up the tab.
- Often, the book publisher, not the author, picks up the tab.
- Thus, port officials argue, the city should have picked up the tab for fixing the recently revealed environmental problems.
- When the check comes, the lobbyists almost always pick up the tab.
- Enough to do picking up the threads of his own life.
- He picked up the thread and followed it.
- She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life.
- They talked non-stop in an elaborate relay race, one picking up the thread as soon as the other paused for breath.
- But instead of throwing up her hands and blaming the problem on organizational chaos, she stepped back and analyzed the situation.
- Davide had seen the priests, who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress's problem.
- Even his most recent wife, Mercedes, had thrown up her hands.
- He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.
- Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen.
- Jenny exclaimed to E.. Ames, throwing up her hands.
- Paul Reichmann threw up his hands in protest at the suggestion, but did not utter a sound.
- Then they throw up their hands, wondering why the benefits they have been pursuing never seem to accrue.
- But the docs just gave me the thumbs up.
- East Kilbride celebrates as tyre plant proposal given the thumbs down.
- I can see it now: In toga and laurel wreath, Big Al will give the thumbs up or thumbs down.
- In Grampian, 80 percent. of general practitioners gave it the thumbs down.
- London movie-goers gave Glengarry Glen Ross, about cut-throat estate agents, the thumbs up this week.
- The Dole campaign has not yet given the thumbs up, preferring to wait for the results of Super Tuesday.
- The question, which had been popped earlier on the stadium's electronic scoreboard, got the thumbs up.
- Top analysts gave it the thumbs up and prices took off.
- Sharon has tied herself up in knots worrying about her job.
- "May I speak to Professor Smithers?" "I'm sorry. He's tied up at the moment."
- I'm sorry, he's tied up at the moment. Could you call back later?
- I can't see you tomorrow, I'm tied up all day.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Her hair was tied up in a hair net and the hat was removed and placed to the right of her chest.
- Its fixed-interest bond pays 11.50 percent net provided the money is tied up for at least 12 months.. Key move on cards.
- Most of this is tied up in grants, salaries and existing programmes, some of them five years long.
- No point in fixing dates when television's cameras are tied up elsewhere.
- On completion day, the legal ends are tied up, you collect the keys and move into your new home.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
- Christianity in Africa is tied up with its colonial past.
- Apart from that, everyone else is tied up with this extraordinary business at the Savoy.
- For many, aspiration to higher things through promotion was tied up with the idea of a larger wage-packet.
- Our identity is tied up with being some one who never achieves these goals.
- Some of these are tied up with the conception of crime itself; and will be dealt with in the next section.
- The others were tied up with sickness, special duties, leave and - a key problem - court attendance.
- The trouble is, he's going to be tied up with all this now.
- His new movie will tie up some of the loose ends from the last one.
- There are still a few loose ends to tie up before we have an agreement.
- Motoring: Can R-R keep up with the times?
- The pub has made no attempt to keep up with the times ... no karaoke here ... just conversation.
- The blokes all put on frocks, like, an' the chicks get togged up in strides.
- "Have you decided where to go on holiday?'' "Well, it'll be either Portugal or Turkey -- it's a toss-up.''
- I don't know who'll get the job. I guess it's a toss-up between Carl and Steve.
- And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
- Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.
- Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.
- In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.
- You've come up trumps, Derek.
- At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
- Five minutes later she was tucked up in bed, sleeping happily once again, while Jake had retreated to his little ante-room.
- Most girls never drink or smoke, and are tucked up in bed by midnight.
- Next day John is tucked up in bed at his flat in Tufnell Park.
- While the field has changed with rent control nearly quashed, wake up and smell the coffee of a new day.
- Blow up the wall with the explosives. 22.
- Giant red cockroaches walking up the walls, and even an my table.
- He hoped she wouldn't turn fickle when he was half way up the wall.
- Her pillow inched up the wall.
- Such abstract philosophizing drives true poets around the bend, up the wall, and over the top.
- The vine clawed its way up the wall at the end.
- This simplifies fitting around awkward shapes. 2 Lay the vinyl in place with surplus curling up the wall.
- She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.
- Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
- She's all wrapped up warm with this big old coat on.
- A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
- Or was it the other way round?
- See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
- She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
- Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
- They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
- When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
- A portable vacuum cleaner is most helpful for sand up the wazoo. 2.
- But deep inside there was a brooding that was welling up in him.
- By eight o'clock, when the first pair was due to tee off, the sun was well up in a clear sky.
- Drunken fans whooped it up in the streets.
- Blake was to be wrapped up in this sooty, surreptitious London nearly all his life.
- Each item of information is wrapped up in two lines of the file.
- He said the whole thing could be wrapped up in a week.
- I was wrapped up in an officer's uniform; you couldn't see me for fur and leather.
- On the other hand, I think many of my successes are wrapped up in the same thing.
- The control was wrapped up in some interdependent web.
- The time was past ten, kids were wrapped up in their beds, and parents were probably about to retire themselves.
- It got a lot of airplay from John Peel, and was written up extensively by the music press.
- Parliamentary proceedings are written up and published in the daily Hansard.
- Previously Venturous had been a noteworthy arrival to be written up in the local press.
- Results of investigations and the like will need to be written up.
- Several points were discussed; these will be written up more fully in the minutes.
- The incident was written up in the local newspaper.
- The research will be written up as it proceeds, and will be published in 1986.
- Their pecuniary interests were probably greater than their antiquarian ones, and their errors were written up by the historian.
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1[transitive] to increase the amount or level of something: They’ve upped their offer by 5%.2up and do something to suddenly do something different or surprising: Without saying another word, he upped and left. → up the ante at ante1, → up sticks at stick2(12)