Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My night of glory ended up with a hobble to the shower and a flop into bed — very athletic , eh ? |
| 2 | On the other , it is a disadvantage to have the risk of a large volume of money tied up with a single customer who could be a slow payer . |
| 3 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 4 | There is a need for such evaluators , but they are surely a very minor part in a much larger process , for evaluation is foremost an attitude of mind backed up by a series of techniques which may , indeed , be very simple and which affect all the workers from the start and throughout the project . |
| 5 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 6 | She recognized curry , but not the strange things which accompanied it , a pale beige paste with a dusty yet lemony flavour , and bits of cucumber chopped up in a bitter white sauce . |
| 7 | In chapter three it was mentioned that the effect of getting large volumes of water mixed up in a volcanic eruption is to make it more violent . |
| 8 | It was built in 1852 by J.W. Wild , who modelled it — if you please — on the tower of the town hall in Siena ; its purpose was to provide the docks with their own hydraulic power , having a huge tank of water pumped up by a steam engine . |
| 9 | Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution . |
| 10 | There seems to be a lot of anger locked up in a sense of competition that he apparently directs first and foremost against himself ; and it is clear that his endless tampering with his swing must have at least as much to do with mind-control as with bodily mechanics — either that , or Faldo has a very perverse and forgetful body indeed . |
| 11 | Nails watched her , wild feelings of frustration rising up in a familiar cauldron in his breast . |
| 12 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 13 | In fact , the godfather of gloom comes up with a plot that takes in Windsor Davies ( the ghost of sitcoms past ) , a bathtub and a big box of concentrated jelly . |
| 14 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 15 | They were dull-eyed and fur clad , with hair bound up into a bunch at the crown and the rattle of bones and polished stones around their limbs . |
| 16 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 17 | Any one ‘ gene ’ in the functional sense , is in fact split up into a sequence of fragments ( exons ) separated by meaningless introns . |
| 18 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
| 19 | I was er , I was prepared remember , when I had my bone-graft , I went all prepared , shaved from head to foot wrapped up like a mummy , from my neck to my feet . |
| 20 | Under the single payments system grants , involving certain rights to payment backed up by a right of appeal to an independent tribunal , disbursed some £350 million in 1986/7 . |
| 21 | Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years . |
| 22 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 23 | The first door to port opened up into a food store , the corresponding door to starboard was locked . |
| 24 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 25 | I can hear the dogs panting ahead and occasionally I am flurried by snow kicked up from a runner . |
| 26 | Detail by detail built up into a formidable possibility , in which , nevertheless , he did not believe . |