Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 2 | Is n't this where you line up for the tram coming home from work ? ’ |
| 3 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 4 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 5 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 6 | For hollow walls , you can get special plastic boxes with ‘ wings ’ which open up behind the plasterboard to hold the box in place . |
| 7 | Sometimes I 'd get up and go down and sit with her , look up at the Moon shining through the glass and think , at least I 'm out of that . |
| 8 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 9 | Then , back up into the sky explodes the ‘ jump-jet ’ harrier and over the heath he sails . |
| 10 | The paper quoted his wife as saying : " We hope our work within the ANC will … make up for the hurt caused to so many people by Dr Verwoerd . " |
| 11 | But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow . |
| 12 | Downstairs smoke-rooms sent the odour of fine Havana leaf up into the street to mingle with the scent of fresh-roasted coffee or the exhaust of an occasional motorcar . |
| 13 | If on any occasion you wake up in the night gasping for water , think back to the meal you had and recognise which recipes make you thirsty . |
| 14 | And it might be a good idea to keep a vacuum flask filled with a hot drink by your bedside in case you wake up in the night feeling cold . |
| 15 | I read in that book in the library I told you about that the people who have it , the AIDS sufferers , they wake up in the morning soaking . |
| 16 | I wake up in the morning soaked . |
| 17 | From the pass go up onto the ridge leading to the summit of Crinkle Crags ( 0.75 miles ) . |
| 18 | Fetch the lead there go up to the kitchen do you think ? |
| 19 | I go up to the counter say , erm , I 'd like this please , but it 's actually got this tear in it , or whatever 's wrong with it , erm , can you give me some discount ? |
| 20 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |
| 21 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 22 | Those cells that end up on the inside become inner cell mass and those that end up on the outside , the trophoblast . |
| 23 | Time to tackle trumps now , so the ace is led from dummy to which all follow small , and you follow up with the jack intending to run it if East does n't cover . |
| 24 | With the few data presently available , it is difficult to assess whether isolated primary involvement by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma would be equally responsive to treatment ; our case 1 patient died of complications before any relevant treatment could be undertaken , whereas follow up in the case reported by Berman et al was too short ; only successful local excision of the tumour was reported although ‘ radiotherapy and chemotherapy were recommended to the patient ’ . |
| 25 | Then I step up to the bar to order more beer . |
| 26 | A second attempt by Admiral Rodney to attack the transports at Le Havre had found the defences there too strong for his bomb-vessels to get within range , while a storm off Dunkirk had enabled a French squadron shut up in the port to make its escape . |
| 27 | Well I er come in , picked all stuff up off the floor lit the fire and I think that were it . |
| 28 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 29 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 30 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |