Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 2 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 3 | At this point he said , quite rightly , ‘ Sod this for a lark ! ’ and is now planning to have a batch of tensile steel rods made up by a colleague who owns an engineering firm . |
| 4 | From time to time , her eyes screwed up in a spasm of misery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ says McPherson , ‘ Oh God , Mary ! ’ — his voice is breaking with emotion — ‘ Oh God , Mary , I do n't want our kids to grow up in a world like this , with man an enemy to man , and cats crawling all over the books , in a cold water walk-up behind the subway depot . |
| 7 | Then four brothers turned up in a bus and killed three brothers who lived in that house next door . |
| 8 | Erica De'Ath , Teenagers Growing up in a Stepfamily |
| 9 | Her lips curved up in a smile . |
| 10 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 11 | Eye-witnesses told how eight police vans and three patrol cars swept up to a house in the street , flooding the area with police officers . |
| 12 | Kafy 's eyes lit up for a moment , and then shut him out . |
| 13 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 14 | And ee , all the kids ended up with a prize did n't they ? |
| 15 | The whole of the study of sort of moving things and statics , things like ladders leaning up against a wall , it 's okay , it 's interesting . |
| 16 | You 've made his ears fly up like a donkey 's . ’ |
| 17 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |
| 18 | He recalls that US researchers came up with a list of programmes of which they approved , including The Waltons , and those of which they disapproved , including the old Batman series , with its camp humour and captions saying ‘ Pow ’ when he punched the baddie . |
| 19 | Thursday 's rehearsals built up to a run in the afternoon . |
| 20 | Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending . |
| 21 | And to her amazement Nails got up without a word , dived into the pool , came up alongside Hoomey and started correcting his stroke , bawling into his ear and galvanizing him into twice the effort . |
| 22 | Ten Joseph tunes line up alongside a poppy cover version of Curtis Mayfield 's The Other Side of Town ; all fall together under a common musical blanket that 's soft , funky , rolling and affectionate . |
| 23 | And did he have their little scarves sewn up into a patchwork quilt ? |
| 24 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 25 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 26 | Although in every case the judge must balance the commercial or property rights of the plaintiff in controlling the information against the value of the defendant 's right of free speech , for many judges brought up in a world which accords pre-eminent value to rights of property , this may seem like balancing hard cash against hot air . |
| 27 | There are a lot of enthusiasts coming up with a lot of good ideas but the information never gets out . |
| 28 | Rats looked up from a saucer of milk as the monklike figure entered the room . |
| 29 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 30 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |