Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down .
2 In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river .
3 ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’
4 Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them .
5 Match up with the inside edges ( the vertical ring having a slighter smaller outside diameter to compensate ) .
6 Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes .
7 Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care .
8 old friends walk up through the wild streets
9 Catch up with the latest movies and audio programmes or just sit back and read the papers .
10 We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook .
11 Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot .
12 However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea .
13 It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet .
14 They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave .
15 They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks .
16 The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics .
17 Many familiar faces pop up during the twenty-six episodes , including Warren Mitchell , Glynn Edwards , Isobel Black , Nigel Davenport , Susan Hampshire , David McCallum , Patrick Allen , Barry Foster and Nanette Newman .
18 Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year .
19 The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular .
20 A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind .
21 Telegraph poles push up into the living quarters protecting folk from the fickle rising seas .
22 no you have to get yourself up with your four legs , you 've got four legs so you can get up , that 's it , just , that 's how horses get up on the front legs first , then the back , that 's right
23 Its comments follow a fresh warning by Sir Gordon Borrie , director-general of Fair Trading , that he will take action against long-term beer supply agreements set up between the big brewers and pubs leased to others .
24 Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability .
25 as I pant up towards the breathless heights .
26 Trend prediction is now big business to help commerce and industry keep up with the latest demands created by peer group pressure .
27 Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle .
28 At midday all the people from Amantani dress up in traditional costume and they go up to the two centres .
29 Go upwards and stand on top of the wall ( above the window ) , go to the left of the wall and paint some ledges , then go onto the wall on the left , go left and shoot the switch , go up on the painted ledges and head right along the wall above you , go up on the trampoline and paint the button , go left along the passage , jump onto the trampoline , and from there onto the ledge on the left wall , jump to collect the painting , fall down and go up on the right of the window ( paint some ledges ) .
30 Go right and collect the painting , go left , down , and right along the passage , go down and left along the passage , go down and right along the passage , fall down the gap , and then down again into the clouds , go back to the start , go right and down , go left to the switch , go up on the painted walls , go left and collect the painting , fall down , go right and up on the stairs from the cauldron , go right and into the painting board to complete the level .
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