Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush .
2 The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation .
3 To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening .
4 Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football .
5 In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk .
6 It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold .
7 It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures .
8 Combine all that with a superb sunshine record , oodles of local bonhomie by both day and night , and we think you 'll agree Seefeld adds up to an Eagle of a holiday !
9 Next , in ( 17 ) , we have a minimal property complex made up of a property extended by another property , P P , alternatively represented as in ( 18 ) .
10 It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half .
11 Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books .
12 They vary from the smallest tin shack propped up against a breakwater to the smartest yacht club in Cowes — but you will find the same enthusiasm for the sport in each .
13 Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom .
14 At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm .
15 After dinner that evening , Cocello instructed Randy Mueller to set up a task force team from Detroit to come up with a phase-out plan for vehicle manufacture , and a phase-in plan for supplying the UK market from imports ,
16 It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’
17 A female clerk in the advertising department owned up to a cream skirt ; Tavett to cream trousers ; and Linley to a cream shirt .
18 So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there .
19 The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates .
20 The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge .
21 I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’
22 If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’
23 The soldier woke up with a snort ; his head jerked up and he looked at us inquiringly .
24 Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually .
25 Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside .
26 I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me .
27 At a Labour conference you get Gerry Adams turning up at a fringe meeting , and he the leader of Sinn Fein , which is cousin to the IRA , which in 1984 , in this same town , blew up the Grand Hotel in an attempt to murder the Prime Minister and Cabinet .
28 From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery .
29 To the rear of the house , the lawn surrounded by herbaceous borders leads up to a meadow and copse which is bordered by the northern boundary of the forest .
30 ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot .
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