Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 2 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sweeping into Battersea Park , the anti-lock brakes show to advantage as the car pulls up in a flurry of leaves . |
| 5 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 6 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 7 | Half an hour later Christopher comes up with a joke . |
| 8 | The problem is that the second question can not be answered until Washington comes up with a consensus on the first . |
| 9 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 10 | After more than an hour of deliberation at a North London hotel the tribunal ruled that Chelsea would have to pay Swindon 75,000 pounds and an extra 2,000 for every appearance Hoddle makes up to a maximum of fifty . |
| 11 | If convicted , Pierce faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine , which Van Halen have offered to pay . |
| 12 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 13 | When a television crew turns up for a tour of his house and DIY achievements , everything falls apart as he touches it . |
| 14 | When a length has been rigged between one radial cable and another , she gives it a twang with one of her legs and the glue breaks up into a line of beads . |
| 15 | Water comes up in a bucket . |
| 16 | ( His claim to fame in these years was the slogan ‘ Kleenex Kitchen Towels mops up like a sponge ’ for client Kimberley Clark . ) |
| 17 | SINGER Harry Connick Jr faces up to a year in jail after being found carrying an unlicensed gun as he tried to board a plane . |
| 18 | Darwin had to think carefully about what is now called the problem of speciation : how a single species splits up into a number of ‘ daughter ’ species . |
| 19 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 20 | TSB hangs up on a telephone banking scheme . |
| 21 | Alan Parker comes up with a winner when his cast of unknowns forms a working-class band that lights the torch of opportunity in Dublin 's mean streets . |
| 22 | Not that T. Behrens sets up as a psychologist . |
| 23 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 24 | Mel toddles up to a driver of a white Fiesta and gets out his wiper . |
| 25 | BLIMEY LOOK AT THAT The hand moves up for a squeeze on the hips . |
| 26 | O litre , intercooler turbocharged , four-wheel-drive , fuel injected supercar puts out a massive 227bhp , which means 60mph comes up in a shade over five seconds on your way to a highly illegal 140 . |
| 27 | The program comes up with a display of the main menu accompanied by three beeps : — |
| 28 | ‘ Because , ’ said Damian Flint , ‘ when antagonism springs up between a man and a woman , it 's really just a fight for supremacy . |
| 29 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |
| 30 | From the gallery the main staircase leads up to a first-floor open-plan living/dining-room/kitchen area , the hefty roof timbers of the old barn being exposed overhead . |