Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 2 | They were a tremendous send up of ‘ camp ’ characters years before their time , two ‘ glaring queens ’ , as Paddick pointed out . |
| 3 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 4 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 5 | Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees . |
| 6 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 7 | A firm pound and a slight easing of money market rates encouraged a couple of attempts to push the FT-SE 100 index up towards 2420 . |
| 8 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 9 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 10 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
| 11 | Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all . |
| 12 | Regular handling and fondling of the young animals helps ensure they grow up into docile but nonetheless bold animals . |
| 13 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 14 | Under the conditions of city life he believed it ‘ incontrovertible that the children grow up into rotten adults , without virility or stamina , a weak-kneed , narrow-chested , listless breed ’ . |
| 15 | People who are little horrors in school quite often grow up into all right individuals . ’ |
| 16 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 17 | The canes , which grow up to 5ft tall , are bright green to purplish in colour . |
| 18 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 19 | ‘ Smooth Angel ’ , white with a pink flush and the pink ‘ Smooth Lady ’ , grow up to 1.5m , while the magenta rose ‘ Smooth Velvet ’ reaches about 1.2m . |
| 20 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 21 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 22 | The branching stems grow up to about 24ins ( 60cms ) in length . |
| 23 | They grow up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) in length and up to 3/4 inch ( 2cms ) in width . |
| 24 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 25 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 26 | These attractive plants grow up to 2ft tall and have lilac blue flowers with the petals on the circumference much larger than those in the centre . |
| 27 | Even a formerly nomadic group , the Paumari in Amazonia grow 14 cultivars of the easily transported cassava and some other groups there grow up to 400 different types of plants ( cultivars as well as cultigens ) ; some clear fell the forest , others merely ‘ weed ’ it . |
| 28 | A sense of responsibility in the children that we help , that they all grow up to be responsible adults . |
| 29 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 30 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |