Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 2 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 3 | So children grow up in an atmosphere of harassment and greater poverty . ’ |
| 4 | Racism poisons a lot of children 's minds — they grow up in an environment with all these images around them , in comics , newspapers , TV , films , plus everything they hear from the family or friends — they just can not help taking it in . |
| 5 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 6 | Probably shrivel up like a cactus in a microwave . |
| 7 | Two men walk up with a patient between them . |
| 8 | Every day , the wild birds on Swan Lake consume up to a quarter of a ton of wheat . |
| 9 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 10 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 11 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 12 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 13 | " I read up about a lot of them , Kate . |
| 14 | Later they meet up with a couple of girls whose telephone numbers Michael finds in his pocket , and as a crazy night out they all have dinner at the Ritz . |
| 15 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 16 | The two Britishers , Cyril ( McKern ) and Amos ( Alec Guinness ) are making a pilgrimage to the battlefields that scarred their lives , and meet up with a group of Americans : D-Day veteran Waldo ( John Randolph ) , his daughter Beverley ( Geraldine Chaplin ) and an enigmatic widow Lisa ( Lauren Bacall ) . |
| 17 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 18 | If deterrence really is the name of the game , then , so it would seem , the missiles that NATO already deploys in submarines add up to a threat to soviet cities and centres of industry that is more than sufficient . |
| 19 | They add up to a novel of leaking secrets and amputated thoughts , of wildly comic material sometimes dully , almost dutifully deployed , as if the humour had escaped the teller ; of people ‘ missing ’ each other in dialogue |
| 20 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 21 | The 48-foot semi-cantilever two-spar wing is made for good STOL performance with a NACA 64A high-lift section , a high 9.2 aspect ratio and slotted flaps which , with the ailerons , add up to a quarter of the total 250 square feet wing area . |
| 22 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 23 | Your daily milk , two pieces of fresh fruit and portion of Fibre-Filler add up to a total of 400 calories and 20g of fibre . |
| 24 | For the early empiricists the answers taken in conjunction with other facts about the social structure add up to a description of a particular society . |
| 25 | The food , the truckloads of champagne , accommodation , fees for the gala stars and 800 musicians , and air fares for many of the guests add up to a bill of millions for the weekend . |
| 26 | Some have expressed doubt that Stevens ' scale types add up to a theory of measurement or , if they do , whether this approach is a useful one for social research as it currently stands . |
| 27 | Does the agreement by EEC states , albeit belated and as yet incomplete , to a series of apparently liberal Directives on competition and trade add up to a victory for the British view of what the Single Market should be about ? |
| 28 | Basic measures of the percentage of GNP passing through government hands in the form of direct expenditure ( 27 per cent in 1975 ) or transfer payments ( 22 per cent in 1975 ) , the scale of the public sector and the battery of regulatory control , add up to an order of central economic direction which , by comparison , makes the Victorian age appear as one of pure laissez-faire . |
| 29 | Even relatively small preferences made year by year by the same committee add up over a decade to a major strategic shift in budget priorities . |
| 30 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |