Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a small but spread-out , almost incoherent town , the pleasantest part of which stands up above the river and has a row of modest hotels . |
| 2 | I flinch , and Rachel starts up from the floor as I begin stumbling through some kind of introduction . |
| 3 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 4 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 5 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 6 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 7 | You 'll find that CompuAdd 's unmatched PC manufacturing capability , plus our strategic relationship with Microsoft adds up to an offer that 's unbeatable ! |
| 8 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 9 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 10 | This creates a pronounced visual luminosity and shows up on the X-ray as strong white . |
| 11 | This tension between economic arithmetic and the prescriptions of economic theory shows up in the discussion that follows . |
| 12 | The central membrane is threaded lengthways through the centre of the cylinder and also blows up like a balloon when the chamber is filled with grapes , only the pressure outwards is even , gently crushing the fruit in all directions . |
| 13 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 14 | he ends up as a tramp and he gets to ah son get in and you know he fucking hanging out the back of the window we had , we had enough money to move to a bigger house right , and they got this little |
| 15 | In Austen 's vision , there is a reward for integrity : Elizabeth ends up with the life that society would wish for her and yet which she also wants for herself . |
| 16 | Husband and wife again particularly to plan a will so that it all ends up with the children if that is eventually what you want with no tax payable or a a a reduced amount of tax . |
| 17 | To the rear of the house , the lawn surrounded by herbaceous borders leads up to a meadow and copse which is bordered by the northern boundary of the forest . |
| 18 | A flight of steps leads up from the courtyard and there is entry also from the house end . |
| 19 | In attempting to explain this last finding , Hall and Honey ( 1990 ) offered a suggestion based on the observation ( made by many but see , e.g. Schachtman , Channell , and Hall ( 1987 ) that , with prolonged conditioned suppression training , the CR grows up to a point and then begins to decline in magnitude . |
| 20 | This is why a child who grows up in an atmosphere where artistic beauty is in evidence and talked about and striven after has an enormous advantage over the child from a background of visual ugliness in which people are innocent of any artistic discernment . |
| 21 | He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin . |
| 22 | Oh yes at one time erm after the New Town got well started , after The Stow was built got to the , goes up to The Stow and be beyond er , well it 's just , going on into erm , er , towards the swimming bath , it was n't up there , swimming bath , erm and we used to call it the Shady Shop in , in adverts and er we used to have a lot of people used to come down because there was only The Stow then and er |
| 23 | One day this long-legged white geek turns up at the court and the two get into an argument . |
| 24 | The duty solicitor has to take what turns up on the day and often act immediately , particularly as one of the administrative attractions of the scheme is to help the court clear the daily list . |
| 25 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 26 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The boathook is planted deep in its belly , a grotesque fifth limb that rears up into the air as it turns over . |
| 29 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 30 | The strength of colour that builds up through the summer and autumn gradually disappears and the winter garden is usually left with weak and delicate shades . |