Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 2 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 3 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |
| 4 | It won ‘ t show up as a registration , so no phonecalls out and no calling reception or room service , either . |
| 5 | Ten Joseph tunes line up alongside a poppy cover version of Curtis Mayfield 's The Other Side of Town ; all fall together under a common musical blanket that 's soft , funky , rolling and affectionate . |
| 6 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 7 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 8 | The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend . |
| 9 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 10 | Every day , the wild birds on Swan Lake consume up to a quarter of a ton of wheat . |
| 11 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 12 | These same eggs end up at a supermarket as fresh free range ! |
| 13 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 14 | The tiresome Matchsticks shut up like a clam . |
| 15 | Our audiences put up with a lot , but they will not accept total inadequacies for every performance . |
| 16 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 17 | The picture that these comments conjure up of a president made massively popular by his command of TV is not confirmed by public opinion poll statistics . |
| 18 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 19 | It always amazes me how Bills which the Government support end up with a Chairman from the Government side of the House , thus giving the Government a majority . |
| 20 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 21 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 22 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
| 23 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 24 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 25 | Two men walk up with a patient between them . |
| 26 | If deterrence really is the name of the game , then , so it would seem , the missiles that NATO already deploys in submarines add up to a threat to soviet cities and centres of industry that is more than sufficient . |
| 27 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 28 | Two men pull up in a jeep . |
| 29 | Despite this apparent discrepancy in cessation rates , it would appear that women give up at a rate very similar to men 's : women almost exclusively smoke ( and therefore give up ) cigarettes , whilst men sometimes switch from cigarettes to a pipe or cigars [ 2 ] . |
| 30 | Your daily milk , two pieces of fresh fruit and portion of Fibre-Filler add up to a total of 400 calories and 20g of fibre . |