Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way . |
| 32 | A SHROUD , is composed of a peculiar kind of flannel , woven on purpose , and called shrouding flannel ; it is made of a breadth and a half , full length , so as to cover the feet ; one seam is sewed up , leaving the other open behind , like a pinafore ; slits are cut for arm-holes , and plain long sleeves , without gussets set in ; the front is gathered at the waist , and drawn up into a narrow piece ; this is twice repeated , at intervals of three nails down the skirt , upon each of these gatherings , round the neck and at the wrists , a kind of border of the same flannel , punched at the edge in a pattern , is plaited , and an edging of the same is made at the bottom . |
| 33 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 34 | Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . |
| 35 | Director Atom Egoyan weaves sex , censorship and second-hand experience into his theme , and ends up with a reflective movie that 's also both faltering and uncertain |
| 36 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 37 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
| 38 | Although the path at this stage is packed solid with shuffling picnickers , it 's a beautiful little track , especially when it emerges from the gorge and opens up into a wide glen where the Allt Coire a' Mhail tumbles to the Water of Nevis via a narrow and dramatic waterfall . |
| 39 | The Janetstown , Thurso , environmental health officer was broken twice after two short fights and stepped up to a 70 lb wire trace with 10 feet of 200 lb nylon as a rubbing leader and baited up with a 1 lb coalfish deadbait on a size 8/0 hook . |
| 40 | The weary little hedgehog stumbled into the leafy nest and curled up in a prickly ball . |
| 41 | At the same time , GKR has not been sold out and swallowed up by a larger organisation , as have MSL by Saatchi & Saatchi and Norman Broadbent by Charles Barker , although there is an element of outside shareholding . |
| 42 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 43 | ‘ My mother was an innocent young country lass , born and brought up in a tiny village in the far north of Scotland . |
| 44 | A census of birds sighted each day throughout the year , and kept up for a considerable number of years , is an invaluable source of information to all concerned with the monitoring of bird numbers . |
| 45 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 46 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 47 | I crawl into my sleeping bag and curl up in a tight ball . |
| 48 | They hurriedly threw up earthen walls , stretching blankets over the top to shelter them ; and cooped up in a small place like this , four or five families together , they spent the following winter . ’ |
| 49 | In Sailors Three ( 1940 , Three Cockeyed Sailors in US ) , Tommy Trinder and his companions get drunk and end up on a German ship which , more by mishap than demon cunning , they occupy and deliver to their commander . |
| 50 | You discover a long lost pocket of goodness in your soul and end up with a sore neck after adopting a passable imitation of a toy dog on the back shelf of a car . |
| 51 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
| 52 | A resolution passed by the Democrat-controlled House 27 votes to 13 advises Exxon to renegotiate and come up with a better offer . |
| 53 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 54 | The pink lacy curtain had been slowly turning green and rolling up into a thin worm , studded with tiny thorns , that hung in mid-air . |
| 55 | With Peter Kininmonth the only Lion in their ranks compared to the 11 of Wales , Scotland scored three tries in their 19-0 victory — the other memorable statistic that season being that Scotland overall scored seven tries to four , but wound up with the wooden spoon , where England in 1991 scored five tries to four and wound up with a Grand Slam ! |
| 56 | They held it here , in a pleasant village outside London , and ran up to a hundred excursion trains a day out to it . |
| 57 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |
| 58 | functions and come up with a revised profit and loss . |
| 59 | ‘ If you let people use their abilities , they will normally walk their way around their difficulties and come up with a straightforward solution , ’ says Neil . |
| 60 | The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off . |