Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disclosure came 211 days after the General Accounting Office had issued its initial report on the numerous unauthorized overdrafts run up by members of the House . |
| 2 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 3 | Three hundred and twenty-five items reported missing by government inspectors turn up in cupboard on site |
| 4 | Nowadays when his eyes light up for love of me , they are somehow clearer and brighter than they used to be ; the lighting up is the more flattering . |
| 5 | At first a natural depression reinforced by earthworks put up in January by the Italian army contained the lava . |
| 6 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 7 | Much of the committee 's and the JMU 's perception of the profession to date has been derived from early visits set up in response to doubts created by registration information and by JMU visits in response to complaints . |
| 8 | Miners turn up for work at Silverhill |
| 9 | No , even though their parties do n't officially start until 7.30pm , and actually until well after 9.00pm , all Hoorays turn up at parties in their work clothes , ie pinstripes . |
| 10 | Stock Exchange surveillance computers pick up any unusual movement in share prices and the regulators follow up with visits to stockbrokers involved to discover who has been dealing . |
| 11 | Does the Secretary of State agree that the individual totals announced today do not in all cases stand up to comparison with real-terms increases south of the border ? |
| 12 | The highlight of this sale of French and continental furniture and tapestries is to be found among pieces put up for sale by Lord Elgin and supplied to his ancestor Thomas , the Seventh Earl , by Martin-Eloy Lignereux . |
| 13 | Universities pay up to £160,000 per year to join the CVCP , polytechnics £29,000 for CDP membership . |
| 14 | Many Macintosh applications spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox , according to Apple , which is why a native implementation was developed . |
| 15 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 16 | French cosmetic scientists believe that water retention and toxic wastes build up in pockets of fat on the hips and bottom . |
| 17 | At the end of June , Murren is host to International Ballooning Week , and the skies fill up with myriads of colourful hot air balloons . |
| 18 | There are figures to shoot on the screen , and the hits light up like splashes of gold . |
| 19 | The projects end up with scores of 250 and 215 respectively , and , hey presto , the project with the higher score is deemed the better . |
| 20 | But the way they are sold means many savers end up with egg on their faces if they are forced to cash in policies before these fall due . |
| 21 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 22 | Kumar 's company , BRS Kumar Brothers , has gone into receivership and its 84% stake in the first division club is part of the assets put up for sale by the receivers . |
| 23 | Many of the denouncers pop up in hotels in Hanoi . |
| 24 | This option enables you to view any special access links set up in LIFESPAN for any LIFESPAN user . |
| 25 | Aerials sprout up like weeds on the roof . |
| 26 | What do we do when we 're engaged in a drama and the children come up with solutions to problems that are historically inaccurate ? |
| 27 | Agents charge up to $7,000 per kidney , depending on the wealth of the patient and how badly the organ is needed . |
| 28 | Wolves go up for sale at £4m . |
| 29 | Nahum told her that a teacher 's needed for one of the permanent Romany camps set up in Kent by a preacher . |
| 30 | As it happens , the Brits end up with egg on the face , while the native Indians come up trumps . |