Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 5 | The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend . |
| 6 | Laverne , I just want you to know that business could be seriously affected if my guests end up in a mess , dammit . |
| 7 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 8 | These same eggs end up at a supermarket as fresh free range ! |
| 9 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 10 | The tiresome Matchsticks shut up like a clam . |
| 11 | Our audiences put up with a lot , but they will not accept total inadequacies for every performance . |
| 12 | The picture that these comments conjure up of a president made massively popular by his command of TV is not confirmed by public opinion poll statistics . |
| 13 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 14 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 15 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
| 16 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 17 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 18 | Two men walk up with a patient between them . |
| 19 | If deterrence really is the name of the game , then , so it would seem , the missiles that NATO already deploys in submarines add up to a threat to soviet cities and centres of industry that is more than sufficient . |
| 20 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 21 | Two men pull up in a jeep . |
| 22 | Despite this apparent discrepancy in cessation rates , it would appear that women give up at a rate very similar to men 's : women almost exclusively smoke ( and therefore give up ) cigarettes , whilst men sometimes switch from cigarettes to a pipe or cigars [ 2 ] . |
| 23 | These factors add up to a teaching force facing rising demands on its skills with falling numbers . |
| 24 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |
| 25 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 26 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 27 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |