Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 2 | Connect the pop-up bath waste from the rear of the bath , adjusting the waste so the components match up with the holes in the bath . |
| 3 | Although it is annoying to have SIMMs in this position ( you would have to remove the motherboard to add extra modules ) , it is only important to ensure that the expansion slots line up with the slots in the rear of the case . |
| 4 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 5 | Only when we catch up with the Americans in this respect shall I feel comfortable ’ — Vadim Tumanov , displaced Soviet politician , reflecting on his first trip to the US . |
| 6 | So next time you catch up at the lights with the smug so and so who was stuck to your bumper a mile back , with all the understanding you can muster just remind him that : ‘ There , there dear , size is n't everything you know . ’ |
| 7 | whether he will be invited to lunch with Rose and Phil , and if not , whether to get a sandwich in a pub , or go straight back to the office , send out for sandwiches , and catch up on the plans for the Manchester Marina scheme ; and if so , whether to order egg and tomato sandwiches , or cheese and chutney , or some of each ; |
| 8 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 9 | you can take a donkey ride up into the mountains in the morning , before spending the afternoon on a jet ski or paragliding down the beach . |
| 10 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 11 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 13 | Houses run up in the courts of Birmingham in the 1820s and 1830s cost – ; 60 each to build . |
| 14 | They pop up in the commercials on the TV screen , on the usherette 's tray at the cinema , in every other shop window . |
| 15 | Such latent knowledge is not at all surprising , if we reflect on the amazing complications of the rules of syntax , of constructing intelligible sentences , including the use of tenses , negatives , hypotheticals , which children pick up between the ages of 18 months and 4 or 5 , generally without any teaching at all . |
| 16 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 17 | Judges also preside over enquiries set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 . |
| 18 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 19 | Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion . |
| 20 | When will the Secretary of State wake up to the realities of public finance in the United Kingdom ? |
| 21 | Did the nobility , however , keep up with the changes in war taking place in this period ? |
| 22 | go up to the shops by the egg basket if need be |
| 23 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |
| 24 | Once they bump up against the limits of Yalta-redefined , it might be time to reconsider . |
| 25 | But how can courgettes , which are sold by the grower at , say , 25–30p a lb at the most , end up on the shelves at Safeway for £1.16 per lb ? |
| 26 | I 'm included in the squad , but i end up in the terraces in every game . |
| 27 | Grease and press the base down into the tin so that the snipped pieces fold up around the sides of the tin . |
| 28 | I wanted to see the rainforest I 'd read about , a place where vast trunks rise up like the pillars of a gloomy cathedral , where lianas hang down , where bright parrots chatter in the sunlight of the tree canopy . |
| 29 | Dante 's sinners are buried in mud , shut up in the trunks of trees , frozen solid in blocks of ice , crushed beneath stones . |
| 30 | My accountant is n't sitting here on my shoulder , and I 'd have to ask her , Bill , but it 's certainly we do n't assume a hundred per cent take up for the purposes of estimating like this . |