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 .
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