Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 4 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 5 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 6 | Keep both legs taut and straight and gently push up with both arms . |
| 7 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 8 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 9 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 10 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 11 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 12 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 13 | These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) . |
| 14 | things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine . |
| 15 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 16 | In Britain , it is almost entirely made up of upper-middle class , late-middle aged , white men . |
| 17 | In fact atoms are almost entirely made up of free space . |
| 18 | We can only collect up to 2 sacks each week from your house . |
| 19 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 20 | Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor . |
| 21 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 22 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd better hurry up with those exercises . ’ |
| 24 | They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are . |
| 25 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 26 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 27 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 28 | I was too defiant to return to such an art school , so cramped , so bunged up with petty authority . |
| 29 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 30 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |