Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course .
2 Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point .
3 I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker .
4 As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act .
5 The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions .
6 Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build .
7 Grease and press the base down into the tin so that the snipped pieces fold up around the sides of the tin .
8 As the lake mists rise up to the hills so the clouds trail down the mountains and valleys to embrace the earth .
9 And then when the graduates from that process come up with the goods , invest in their innovative ideas .
10 Despite a last minute clear up by the travellers the common was still strewn with waste — the leftovers of a twenty thousand strong party .
11 Loads of water get up through the gates .
12 … peace will be permanently preserved only if our artisans and industrialists keep up with the artisans and industrialists of other countries a constant and deliberate communication through their political parties and other organisations … .
13 The Institute is made up of three departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured ; Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods live up to the claims made by manufacturers ; and the Consumer Advice Service , which answers your questions and produces GHI Information Sheets .
14 His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real .
15 A local spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) commented that " there is no such thing as selective trapping because all sorts of protected birds end up in the nets and die before they can be released " .
16 you can take a donkey ride up into the mountains in the morning , before spending the afternoon on a jet ski or paragliding down the beach .
17 When will the Secretary of State wake up to the realities of public finance in the United Kingdom ?
18 I wanted to see the rainforest I 'd read about , a place where vast trunks rise up like the pillars of a gloomy cathedral , where lianas hang down , where bright parrots chatter in the sunlight of the tree canopy .
19 From such a vantage point you can scan up to a mile along many beaches and spot objects cast up by the tides .
20 The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers .
21 Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all .
22 The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards .
23 Over time , age and reality catch up with the dreams but , even though the dreams have to be modified , often painfully , the search for an opportunity to stretch oneself , to let the potential emerge , is endless .
24 Shopping at the company store often means a long wait in the queue , so the children line up for the groceries , while Domitila sells her pies ( Barrios de Chungara and Viezzar 1978 ) .
25 Although it is annoying to have SIMMs in this position ( you would have to remove the motherboard to add extra modules ) , it is only important to ensure that the expansion slots line up with the slots in the rear of the case .
26 Judges also preside over enquiries set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 .
27 Good flowering is dependent on temperature , the ideal being between 20 and 25°C but if growing conditions are too favourable when the flowering takes place , essential nutrients rush up to the tips , not to the clusters , wood growth takes precedence and the barely formed seeds dry up and fall to the ground .
28 If one monkey is separated , the blockers dash up into the trees ahead to take up their positions , crashing through the branches in a way that is quite unlike their normal movements .
29 Connect the pop-up bath waste from the rear of the bath , adjusting the waste so the components match up with the holes in the bath .
30 These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area .
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