Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while they walked in silence , retracing their steps back up towards the house . |
| 2 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |
| 3 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 4 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cars stack up behind every bus , while passengers queue to pay their fares . |
| 7 | It was also decided that political parties set up in the future should only be granted " observer " status . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 10 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 11 | These lifts go up through the ceiling into the room above . |
| 12 | His eyes light up at the recollection of some of the challenges he has tackled that would have daunted the more faint-hearted . |
| 13 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 14 | As Britain 's biggest book printer , his eyes light up at the mention of Labour 's proposals for an extra £10 per primary school child for books . |
| 15 | In the second part of his autobiography Ways of Escape , Graham Greene writes of an earlier period , ‘ … in Indo-China I drained a magic potion , a loving-cup which I have shared since with many retired colonels and officers of the Foreign Legion whose eyes light up at the mention of Saigon and Hanoi ’ . |
| 16 | He left the room abruptly before anyone could respond , and it was only when Belinda heard his powerful car start up in the driveway that she realised he was n't coming back . |
| 17 | Kids come up in the street and say , ‘ Hey Mista Rick , how ya doin' ? ’ |
| 18 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 19 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 20 | Every night while the white kids queue up at the teen club Todd 's , or the new romantic Taboo , the black kids flock to the Music Institute for a dose of blinding strobes and pure , hard techno . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It won ‘ t show up as a registration , so no phonecalls out and no calling reception or room service , either . |
| 23 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 24 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 27 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 28 | Their paths afford spectacular views , and new vistas open up around every corner . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The banks or organisations that issue them guarantee payment of bills run up by the credit card holder up to a certain limit . |