Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It publishes a monthly newsletter and a monthly Investors ' Handbook which builds up into a comprehensive reference manual covering all aspects of share investment . |
| 2 | All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum . |
| 3 | Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet . |
| 4 | And furthermore , do n't bother with guidebook descriptions or the like , just find the crag and climb the rock , dappled with lichen , tinged with red and bristle-tufted with pink-and-dark-green heather , which soars up to a narrow apex . |
| 5 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 6 | Also included in this ‘ private ’ section of the building is a straight-flight staircase which leads up from the small hall containing the secondary entrance to serve the family 's first-floor sleeping accommodation . |
| 7 | French towns , large or small , have a raffish , down-at-heel quality which shows up as a relaxed attitude to their urban fabric . |
| 8 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 9 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 10 | The highway , which links up with the old road south of Charikar , avoids mujahedin territory and and passes through a region where the Kabul regime has concluded deals with local guerrilla commanders . |
| 11 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 12 | All I know is that God is n't a good explanation , so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one . " |
| 13 | in that they 're electrically they really are electrical charges , and somebody comes up with a big positive electrical pole of a a battery |
| 14 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 15 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 16 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 17 | Yes , erm , the , the most archetypal one is , is the miser of course , who , who turns up with a stale box of chocolates and an ingratiating smile , and proceeds to eat you out of house and home , and then when you 're at the supermarket , disappears mysteriously at the checkout , and returns when you 've paid with a , a bumper bag a crisps that he keeps in his bedroom when , in case he gets peckish at night . |
| 18 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 19 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 20 | One is a man , Sergio Malandro , physically a cross between a lorry driver and an Italian gigolo , who dresses up as a five year-old in short trousers . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 22 | I do n't mean here , this version necessarily , but you 're not the only person in the world who keeps up with the wider literature , you know . |
| 23 | At CBS , where she worked for eight years , she remembers up to a hundred tapes pouring into the office each week . |
| 24 | Divison Three leaders Llanivaloes include spinner Michael Jones and Ian Jones , who steps up from the second team , for the home encounter with Cound . |
| 25 | John is n't satisfied with it , we are bogged down , and finally it is Campbell who comes up with a plausible route through drunken , volatile shifts of feeling . |
| 26 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 27 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 28 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 29 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | One saves up for a lifelong dream , another |