Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significant new business in tableware and giftware adds up to a … |
| 2 | His flesh and bone opened up like a bud deploying a blood-red , white-stamened flower from which the petals almost instantly fell . |
| 3 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 4 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 5 | The HP 700 products were originally based on Alsys technology and Alsys will continue developing , marketing and maintaining these products as well as shipping new versions of the product supporting HP-UX 8.0 on the Series 800 , and will follow up with a new version supporting the Series 400 and 300 workstations . |
| 6 | If soil builds up in a ‘ cone ’ it will heat and eventually rot the crop . |
| 7 | Windows were smashed clean out in fourth-floor dressing rooms as actor and understudy flared up into a fight . |
| 8 | Corbett then cleaned his boots , washed , changed his tunic and ravenously ate the bread and cheese brought up on a platter by an aged lay sister . |
| 9 | Tensions between right and left flared up in a dispute over the May 1968 by-election in the City of Londonderry constituency , and this helps to illuminate some of the characteristics of the Derry Labour left . |
| 10 | ‘ Because , ’ said Damian Flint , ‘ when antagonism springs up between a man and a woman , it 's really just a fight for supremacy . |
| 11 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 12 | I remember one occasion when Dad turned up on a Sunday — a bit unfair , I thought — and there were fourteen people staying and twenty shirts quietly soaking in the bath . |
| 13 | The view is always dimmed out , however , before the light declares itself , and there is a period of blurred dark when perspective shuts up like a concertina and the eye loses its bearings . |