Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 2 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 3 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 4 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |
| 5 | Anyway , we and of course we gets up the line at the and then I got a touch of some sunstroke . |
| 6 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 7 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 8 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 9 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 10 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 11 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 12 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 13 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 14 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 15 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
| 16 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 17 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |
| 18 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 19 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 20 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 21 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 22 | It conjures up a vision of a large , appetizing meal , around which the whole family gathers , to share food and conversation in an especially leisurely way . |
| 23 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 24 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 25 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 26 | This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere . |
| 27 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 28 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 29 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 30 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |