Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments .
2 Thrown on or crumpled up in a bucket of it .
3 Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart .
4 Dropped , discarded or duffed up in a temper — who knows ?
5 Even though these treatments drive the chemicals into the timber to a much greater depth than surface application by spray or brush , the wood may not be completely impregnated , particularly in the heartwood , so that notches and ends cut on site after treatment must be dipped in preservative or touched up with a brush .
6 Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait .
7 The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) .
8 Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle .
9 You might compare , for instance , a real letter from 1740 with one of the letters in Richardson 's novel Pamela ( published 1740 , and made up of a sequence of imitation letters ) .
10 He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things .
11 I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek .
12 The material is then worked on by the waves and built up into a ridge facing the direction from which the greatest waves come .
13 We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines .
14 Simon 's daughter , Pippa , a beauty of six who had one blue and one green eye , swarmed watchfully into the room on her stomach with Thomas 's encouragement and bounced up with a war whoop behind the chairs of two sleeping visitors .
15 In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad .
16 There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution .
17 Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away .
18 Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time .
19 ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint .
20 The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port .
21 As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute .
22 There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men :
23 We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects .
24 I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government .
25 She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell .
26 I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little .
27 A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation .
28 The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel .
29 Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet .
30 [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ]
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