Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 2 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 3 | Not even Jane 's tender digestion would keep her from tonight 's dancing , and nor did she have any real fear of meeting her husband , for Jane well knew Sharpe 's reluctance to dance or to dress up in a frippery uniform , but the possibility of his presence was an alarming thought that she could not resist exploring . |
| 4 | Or shacked up with a new girl you wanted to keep to yourself or something . ’ |
| 5 | or come up with a whole so whole position . |
| 6 | We spent a day ashore on Barentsøya where the Dutch party went off inland on their own and met up with a polar bear with two cubs , which ran off when they saw the party . |
| 7 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 8 | The noise starts as a light tapping and builds up to a louder noise then stops suddenly . |
| 9 | One startling apparition a few seats away was masked , and got up like a Chinese mandarin , with clacking claws for hands emerging from generous silk sleeves . |
| 10 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 11 | Thus , once again , there is considerable potential for teachers to become confused between the relative demands of these two quite different approaches to moderation and caught up in a great deal of additional work . |
| 12 | Now John Burnett found his good-natured and impressionable son falling under the spell of two far more intelligent men of dubious opinions , and caught up in a wild scheme for emigration to America . |
| 13 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 14 | And ending up with a thumping great lie . |
| 15 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |
| 16 | This nearly always results in drifting further back without much gain of height and ending up in a worse situation than before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Matsushita began work on cobalt-free magnets in 1968 and came up with a manganese-aluminium-carbon material in 1979 . |
| 19 | I felt these elementary slips should be corrected , and came up with a possible solution . |
| 20 | Roxburgh , however , decided there was no point playing games , and came up with a predictable yet interesting side . |
| 21 | He scrabbled in the bottom of the box and came up with a small piece of carved and polished wood . |
| 22 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 23 | They took their various allocated strains of Staphylococcus aureus or whatever , applied standard methods , and came up with a particular teichoic acid or teichoic acid-like polymer . |
| 24 | Here — ’ He rummaged in the pearl-studded evening bag and came up with a twenty pound note . |
| 25 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 26 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 27 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 28 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 29 | He walked back , around the huge tyres , and squinted up at a long , high tube that stretched from the building . |
| 30 | She says she also sleeps better and wakes up with a clearer head which is not the sort of image she portrayed a couple of years ago when all the pressures she was facing caused her to hit the bottle again . |