Sentence examples for get bumped up from inspiring English sources

"If there's an endgame, it's how does this stuff get bumped up?" he said.

There will be an inquiry and your horse will get bumped up to third".

On very lucky days, we would board and get bumped up to first class.

They occasionally get bumped up by a subdivision, or down by an amalgamation, but happily we are set on 25 at the moment.

Mr. Chait posited that a president's approval rating is relative, so that once a Republican opponent is selected and steps onto the national stage, Mr. Obama's numbers may get bumped up by the comparison.

Murray said developers themselves can see that this is not a good way to do things: "There really is an overlap between different people I've been speaking to over recent weeks - councillors, developers and housing associations - who say that the current way that viability is done is so fuzzy and contested it simply means land values get bumped up at the expense of affordable housing.

The literary pedigree gets bumped up another notch by the addition of Tom Stoppard, who adapted the novels for the screen.

For example, if you buy an album from Amazon's music store, your Cloud Drive gets bumped up to 20 gigabytes for the year — no charge.

The scene got bumped up a few notches in the early 80's, with the opening of the Dunes Resort in Douglas, and has grown exponentially in recent years.

"I was always getting bumped up a level in baseball so that I couldn't just throw fastballs to get by," said Marcoux, who has most recently been clocked at 88 miles an hour.

(Criterion Collection; Blu-ray, $59.95, DVD, $49.95; not rated) COMING SOON JURASSIC PARK 3D Steven Spielberg's pioneering study in computer-generated thrills gets bumped up to three dimensions for this Blu-ray reissue.