Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
2 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
3 | She 'd seen the card I put up in a local shop , advertising the top flat . |
4 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
5 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
6 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
7 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
8 | ‘ I square up onto a prepared board which for the larger paintings is medium density fibreboard , or MDF , half an inch thick which I have primed on both sides . |
9 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
10 | ‘ I get up at a quarter-to-five most mornings . |
11 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
12 | as I pant up towards the breathless heights . |
13 | I tackle up with a through-action carbon rod , 11ft long , a fixed-spool reel carrying 5lb b.s. line to which a size 2 hook is tied direct . |
14 | You hate me when I turn up in the sexy German motor , you hate me when I ca n't turn up at all . |
15 | I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it . |
16 | I end up with a flat battery about once a week even though the dynamo , heavy duty battery and voltage regulator have been replaced . |
17 | I fuel up at a wee petrol station just before the A9 and phone Fettes while the tank 's filling . |
18 | The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition . |
19 | These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making . |
20 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
21 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
22 | When you lower to the start position , do not touch the board ; if you do this , or if you sit up past the vertical position , then the abdominals will have a slight rest . |
23 | So that you wind up with a prioritised monthly to do list . |
24 | On Necromunda , so it is said , you grow up at an early age . |
25 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
26 | It is not only the victims of mental or physical abuse who grow up with a faulty self-image . |
27 | This database , however large or small , can then be used to select very quickly certain employees who match up against a particular job profile . |
28 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
29 | Yes you do , you break up on the twentieth ! |
30 | And if you go round , particularly the steep slopes on the margins of Ashdown Forest , not on Ashdown Forest itself but when you climb up from the very flat erm plain area of the Low Weald onto the so-called High Weald , then that area in particular is very subject to , to this type of activity . |