Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 2 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
| 3 | As the water level lowered below the Deep Level horizon , it was decided to start driving a tunnel from the shaft side , to meet up with the advancing Deep Level from the south . |
| 4 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 5 | She turned in , then felt her nerves flutter as she drew up before a timber-built single-storeyed house which was backed by several small chalet-type huts , while behind them were numerous sheds . |
| 6 | One of the more curious recent products of the Bush administration has been the hyping up of a new anti-poverty idea in terms that sound more like black radicalism of the 1960s . |
| 7 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 8 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 9 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 10 | And as the dignitaries stiffly walked towards their jeeps and their ride home we prepared again for battle : to film , photograph , and record sound , while keeping up with the uproarious final procession to the cliffs . |
| 11 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 12 | After settling her bill , she went for a walk through the hotel grounds , ending up beside a pretty little river meandering gently through a meadow , and sat down on a boulder , barely feeling the coolness of the air as she gazed into the silvery , rippling waters . |
| 13 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | In general , they tend to follow a more or less logical sequence , starting at the top with a headline ( assuming it is there ) and ending up in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 15 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 16 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 17 | A firm has come up with a new high-tech way to beat credit card fraud . |
| 18 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 19 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 20 | Following new yarn developments in France , Charnos have come up with a beautiful lustrous leg look that is built for comfort — ‘ Sheer Lustre ’ tights at £2.99 with 10 denier appearance leg . |
| 21 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 22 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 23 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 24 | Ernst & Young in the US has come up with an interesting new way to reduce overheads , according to the Public Accounting Report . |
| 25 | There 's nothing more romantic than mother nature herself and Schwarzkopf have come up with an exciting new product for colouring hair — the natural way . |
| 26 | Together with American businessman David A Gold and technical experts from West Germany , they have come up with an exciting new development for hair . |
| 27 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 28 | The swing towards England in the 1540s had not eradicated the outward-looking tradition built up throughout the later Middle Ages . |
| 29 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 30 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |