Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It adds up to a drag factor that is 13% ‘ slippier ’ through the air , which helps economy and reduces wind noise . |
| 2 | Erm , where the , the authority , not just the County Council , but the authority in the partnership , get involved in lobbying exercises with the , with the government to try to ensure that rural post offices can actually give out vehicle licences , because it 's very , if you look in the north of the county , outside the towns there 's only four post offices , I think , that can actually give out vehicle licences , and yet in the rural areas , we have a lot of people with vehicles , and we , and the way that it counts towards , the way that it counts up towards a post office 's survival , it 's these high value items are significant in keeping post offices open . |
| 3 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 4 | An engaging Irish shaggy-dog story about a failed sixteen-year-old suicide who ends up on a vegetable truck bound for Sweden . |
| 5 | Treading Water is a frantic track , powered by pumping bass and chinking rhythm guitar , whereas Harlequin , a possible single , opens with a slab of techno keyboards and ends up with a guitar solo . |
| 6 | It is a world of high camp comedy and low-life sex , a world in which a drag queen eventually ends up with a rent boy . |
| 7 | ‘ And Cawthorne buys loadsashares and ends up with a bum company . ’ |
| 8 | Firm A has a balancing allowance in year 3 of 26.25 and so has its corporation tax reduced by 9.19 ( i.e. 26.25 × 35% ) in that year but ends up with a balancing charge of 23.75 in year 4 and so has an additional tax liability of 8.31 ( i.e. 23.75 × 35% ) in year 4 . |
| 9 | If it ends up in a bark crevice , the seed may germinate and penetrate the tree . |
| 10 | TSB hangs up on a telephone banking scheme . |
| 11 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |
| 12 | A well-known alcoholic who unexpectedly turns up at a cocktail party may inadvertently communicate the fact that his sessions with AA have given him newfound confidence in his self-control . |
| 13 | Thus in the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic , the distinctive genus Flabellothyris turns up along a belt parallel to the present equator ( for example , in Mexico , Morocco and India ) and not to the north or south . |
| 14 | By wiping the screen with a special tissue every couple of months the electrostatic field that builds up on a monitor screen can be discharged . |
| 15 | 2 The defender throws the closed iron fan at the attacker 's wrist and follows up with a knife block . |
| 16 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 17 | She pops up during a day-time TV maths programme with a handful of chocolate mice and a pair of weighing-scales . |
| 18 | Lastly ‘ our Nige ’ pops up in a jazz programme with Peter Pettinger ( piano ) , recorded on impulse in the time left after the Elgar Sonata in 1984 . |
| 19 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 20 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |