Example sentences of "[vb base] up [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babies born several weeks prematurely grow up to have a lower IQ on average by the ages of seven to 10 than children born at full term , according to research reported yesterday . |
| 2 | When putting the ring together I alternate the segments marked face up then plain face up to create a balanced pattern . |
| 3 | Only five events qualify for inclusion in this study — four individual eruptions , and a series of three closely spaced events in 1902 which together add up to produce a large dust veil . |
| 4 | The parallelism may be less transparent : in 22 foot and scrutinise have a parallel relation to bill , and in 23 foot and add up have a parallel relation to bill . |
| 5 | Switch to wavy bullets and go left , get over the blocker and jump up to shoot the fat creature . |
| 6 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 7 | The complicated cultural , religious and political make up created a further cause of tension . |
| 8 | The Truman Administration had already been forced by Congress to end Lend-Lease ; many of the joint boards set up to co-ordinate the Anglo-American war effort were summarily dismantled ; and , although the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development Trust survived , the flow of technical information , on which Britain was depending to set up her own atomic establishments , began to dry up . |
| 9 | The barricades go up to block an illegal rave . |
| 10 | If they turn up to discover a human housing estate instead of the expected hole in the ground , it must undoubtedly stress them . |
| 11 | You end up speaking the same jargon or formulae as the establishment without stopping to think . |
| 12 | They are processes which , once started , end up producing a particular outcome at a later point in time . |
| 13 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 14 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |
| 15 | They end up learning a great deal about themselves and each other . |
| 16 | A new computer simulator 's been designed to teach drivers how to handle a skid before they end up learning the hard way . |
| 17 | As you write the essay you may find that the focus shifts , with the result that you end up rejecting the original title and finding a more suitable one . |
| 18 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |
| 19 | Most backpackers end up owning a modest selection of stoves to cover varying conditions . |