Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It was expected to cost around £800 million when launched , of which foreign aid made up about a half . |
| 5 | Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The car drew up outside a pair of high white gates . |
| 8 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |
| 9 | The soldier woke up with a snort ; his head jerked up and he looked at us inquiringly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 14 | His look deepened and the corners of his well-defined mouth turned up in a half-smile of mystery . |
| 15 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 16 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 17 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 18 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 19 | Rodo screamed as the light surged up to a brilliance that stung his eyes . |
| 20 | Carnforth grew up as a railway town from 1857 . |
| 21 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |
| 22 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 23 | But today , for some reason , Bella gave up without a fight . |
| 24 | She was just imagining Meredith dressed up as a sailor and herself with her arms round his neck , clinging to him as the wind tried to tear them apart , when a man with a tray hung from his neck asked her to buy bootlaces . |
| 25 | I can hear the dogs panting ahead and occasionally I am flurried by snow kicked up from a runner . |
| 26 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 27 | The pads can be inserted into an undergravel set up as a gravel tidy without interrupting the free flow of water . |
| 28 | Perhaps more important for our purposes is the economists ' view of law which is something quite different from that of the lawyers ' traditional idea of a command backed up by a sanction . |
| 29 | Travis sat up with a shrug . |
| 30 | The employee set up as a tailor within the relevant area within two years of leaving his employment . |