Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 2 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
| 3 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 4 | Fun arises when members of both teams end up on the same leaf . |
| 5 | Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard . |
| 6 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 7 | So this must be where Marc plots his business deals , she thought , trying not to show too much curiosity about the details flashing up on the several screens against the wall . |
| 8 | At the airport planes of astonishingly different sizes — like children 's toys on different scales mixed up in the same game queue to use the runway for take-off . |
| 9 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 10 | Some of these children show an interesting reaction when the allergenic foods are removed from the diet and other allergens avoided : their mental and behavioural symptoms clear up at the same time as their physical ones . |
| 11 | But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences . |
| 12 | Doctors who treat food intolerance have observed the mental symptoms to clear up at the same time as the physical ones during an elimination diet , and to reappear when the patient tests particular foods . |
| 13 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 14 | There , in the spring , they lay their eggs at a great depth and the minute larvae float up to the more surface waters with the onset of summer . |
| 15 | Runners and spinnaker sheets and guys double up on the same winches by using sheet jammers and , while this might be fine for a highly tuned crew , a less well-trained outfit might find it demanding . |