Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack , defence and counter-attack . |
| 2 | I want to restore my 1967 LWB and hope to end up with a functional , economic vehicle . |
| 3 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 4 | As we approach the site , coming off the freeway , we get caught up in a four mile tailback , as there 's only one entrance to the fairground . |
| 5 | ‘ Like a dog you keep chained up in a dark room . |
| 6 | Weary constituency and trade union delegates , queuing for a cup of tea and a sandwich , constantly risk ending up with a signed copy of someone 's memoirs . |
| 7 | And of course what very often happens these days , with such a high level of unemployment , is if it 's a fine that 's decided upon — and I think something like in three-quarters of the cases dealt with by Magistrates do end up with a fine — that it has to be scaled down because of the erm poor circumstance , poor financial circumstance in which the defendant is . |
| 8 | With children , I mean , you sometimes find that children have that kind of dream , they do find a bathroom and then they do wake up in a wet bed . |
| 9 | And they 've come up with a splendid route , over 80 miles of miles of deep valley walks , riverside and forest walks ending with a cliff top section at Filey . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 11 | The young ( you can see it in their faces ) , the stegosaurus rugged no-hopers , the parrot-crested blankies — they 've come up with an appropriate response to this , which is : nothing . |
| 12 | It sounds like you 've ended up with a reasonable machine in the end , though , and Works is a good integrated software package . |
| 13 | ‘ Instead of which you 've ended up with a half-grown female in a hat like a tea-cosy . |
| 14 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 15 | Supervised by a state functionary ( with a sqeaking shoe ) and led by an emotionally-chaotic project director , a group of architects struggle to come up with a high-rise building scheme that will destroy the ancient town 's character and , incidentally , clear away its slums . |
| 16 | Just need to come up with a brief |
| 17 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 18 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 19 | Marr and his colleagues have come up with a simpler explanation which relies on the fact that there are two classes of ganglion cells , on-centre and off-centre . |
| 20 | It has to be said that , with this membrane idea , BOSS have come up with a brilliant way of programming the ME-10 . |
| 21 | JOHN Major and Norman Lamont have come up with a multi-billion pound recovery package for the economy — without consulting the Cabinet . |
| 22 | By studying regions of the proteins the proteinase cuts , they have come up with a small molecule that can block this scissor action . |
| 23 | The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time |
| 24 | Buffallo , however , have come up with a good trowel at a very modest price . |
| 25 | Following new yarn developments in France , Charnos have come up with a beautiful lustrous leg look that is built for comfort — ‘ Sheer Lustre ’ tights at £2.99 with 10 denier appearance leg . |
| 26 | A group of US magazine publishers have come up with a novel weapon for the US Information Agency 's propaganda efforts in Eastern Europe : their unsold magazines . |
| 27 | LISBURN have come up with a novel way of raising much-needed cash for the club . |
| 28 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 29 | Now Cystic Fibrosis researchers in Oxford have come up with a potential cure . |
| 30 | Cyclists and the Forestry Commission have come up with a special scheme , policed by rangers on mountgain bikes , cyclists are allowed anywhere in the forest , apart from 3 nature reserves which are out of bounds and families as well , as the more energetic are catered for with an 11 mile trail along disused railway tracks . |