Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ?
2 Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back .
3 This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected .
4 Erm , I wear make up as a mask basically gives me confidence and it stops me having to be myself which I feel is n't good enough for the public
5 Buzz found herself lying face up in the snow , in great pain , unable to move : as helpless as a black beetle flipped on to its back .
6 But five days after he moved in he was found by staff horribly scalded across his back and chest lying face up in the bath .
7 The body was lying face up in the rain .
8 Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture .
9 It involves putting make up UNDER the skin , using a special probe .
10 To locate START UP within the range of initiatives , to develop an appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of this initiative in comparison to others .
11 Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers .
12 On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking .
13 Well , perhaps I can say pick up on a couple of points in the discussion .
14 Climbline offer up to the minute weather and hill conditions for the major mountain areas of Britain .
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