Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten Joseph tunes line up alongside a poppy cover version of Curtis Mayfield 's The Other Side of Town ; all fall together under a common musical blanket that 's soft , funky , rolling and affectionate . |
| 2 | Prop up with a cocktail stick from behind if necessary . |
| 3 | These factors add up to a teaching force facing rising demands on its skills with falling numbers . |
| 4 | Six years in the Bournemouth branch and nineteen elsewhere , add up to a quarter century at Rentokil , for Martin Loftus . |
| 5 | All countries possess an armoury of policy weapons that together add up to a policy regime . |
| 6 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 7 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |
| 8 | It pays to use a sterilised rooting compost , or a medium such as horticultural vermiculite , rather than garden soil , but these may contain minimal nutrients , so pot up into a potting compost as soon as they are well rooted . |
| 9 | Cover with the pink icing and roll up like a swiss roll . |
| 10 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 11 | ( A close up of a TV operation always sets my fingers tingling . ) |
| 12 | Are you the type who wants to go up to , you 're on holiday in Spain , go up to a Spaniard go hola |
| 13 | Keen gardeners and fanatical car washers may have second thoughts about lavish spraying if we end up with a water meter at the bottom of our garden to measure the amount we actually use . |
| 14 | Carbon dioxide is the most soluble of the gases because as it dissolves it does n't just go through a physical solution it goes through a chemical conversion such that carbon dioxide dissolving in water forms carbonic acid which , in water will dissociate into a hydrogen iron and a hydrogen bicarbonate iron which can further dissociate this is why I 've got a nice wide blackboard and you 've only got a piece of A four paper so you end up with a carbonate iron two hydrogen ions This system is a dynamic equilibrium . |
| 15 | If you have to compromise , change your mind or adapt an idea , make a new list , date it and file it so that you end up with a master check list that is a complete record of the whole procedure . |
| 16 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 17 | and has it 's so important in the pathogenesis of the capsule that antibodies to it can be used er , ca , er can actually completely prevent the disease and we end up with a capsule vaccine based on the type B pulse . |
| 18 | Eventually they end up at a reprocessing plant where they are ground into tiny flakes , washed and dried . |
| 19 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 20 | They do n't just prove that it 's dangerous to fly , ski , skateboard or dress up as a Mutant Hero Ninja Turtle and try to act tough on the Northern Line late on a Saturday night . |
| 21 | The experience of being an old person , a senior citizen , is imposed from outside , as for example people find when they first queue up for a retirement bus pass : ‘ The general expectation [ is ] that old people should be incompetent ’ ( Victor , 1987 , p. 265 ) . |
| 22 | Telephone advice work , often regarded as difficult , has to be tackled and the possible need for follow up with a home visit puts additional strain on rural bureaux . |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah you could certainly point out the areas that have been of interest to you and perhaps I could follow up with a phone call to er to Peter in the |
| 24 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 25 | RCA also come up with a tape cassette but shelve the idea as LPs begin to dominate the audio market . |
| 26 | Thank you yes , I mean our purpose is not here to try and judge competing bids for the new settlement , but to try to come to if we can , objective appraisal of if we are minded to recommend the new settlement , could we in fact come up with a district location . |
| 27 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 28 | As a teacher I try to do what I can , but in a lot of cases you come up against a brick wall with a lot of racist graffiti on it ! |