Example sentences of "[det] [noun] up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Empire army may include a proportion of allies , in this case up to a quarter of its total points value . |
| 2 | It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table . |
| 3 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 4 | The differential amplifiers used in EEG machines use the difference between the voltages offered by the two inputs , which is normally less than 200 microvolts ( millionths of a volt ) , and amplify this difference up to a voltage sufficient to drive the galvanometer pens — perhaps 0–5 volts . |
| 5 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 6 | Where the ophthalmic optician subsequently prescribes special corrective appliances solely to correct vision defects at the viewing distances used specifically for the display screen work concerned , and where normal corrective appliances ( ie those prescribed for any other purposes ) can not be used , during this interim period , a Head of Department will refund such costs up to a maximum of £50 . |
| 7 | Fortunately , Trau Bishop and I had set that room up as a trap , knowing that your agent would n't be able to resist the bait . |
| 8 | Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay |
| 9 | The refashioned story relates how two young people , both just over affairs , pick each other up on a Friday night at a swinging Manhattan singles bar , the then modish Maxwell 's Plum . |
| 10 | He and Helga sat at the back of the class , groping each other up in a flurry of smirks and giggles . |
| 11 | NATO insisted on placing a limit of 275,000 each on US and Soviet personnel only , while the Warsaw Pact wished to include foreign deployments by all countries up to a maximum of 300,000 each by NATO and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 12 | Tt now if we just take that , that latter point up for a minute we can |
| 13 | Spread the bread with the ginger and roll each slice up into a roll . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ she said after a moment 's pause , ‘ of course they are doing the same job up to a point and that 's never an easy pattern of work . |
| 15 | A Midland CheckOver is normally available to personal Current and Orchard Multi Service Account ( MSA ) customers for any amount up to a maximum of £3,000. once the limit has been agreed , you can use your account without having to worry about overdrawing , provided of course you keep within your limit . |
| 16 | Patrick held both hands up in a gesture of peace , he smiled for a moment ; I 'm no trying to get at you personally but I just fucking feel that you cant expect the teacher to be the everything , the heavyweight boxing champion of the world . |