Example sentences of "it [verb] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns up as a footnote in every textbook and training manual . |
| 2 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 3 | Erm , where the , the authority , not just the County Council , but the authority in the partnership , get involved in lobbying exercises with the , with the government to try to ensure that rural post offices can actually give out vehicle licences , because it 's very , if you look in the north of the county , outside the towns there 's only four post offices , I think , that can actually give out vehicle licences , and yet in the rural areas , we have a lot of people with vehicles , and we , and the way that it counts towards , the way that it counts up towards a post office 's survival , it 's these high value items are significant in keeping post offices open . |
| 4 | The French government actually wants this archaically hide-bound professional body to reform itself and become more competitive , but is expecting it to come up with a solution itself . |
| 5 | It adds up to a drag factor that is 13% ‘ slippier ’ through the air , which helps economy and reduces wind noise . |
| 6 | It adds up to a recovery but not a boom , Sudhir Junankar , the deputy director of economic affairs said yesterday . |
| 7 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 8 | It fetched up on a sandbank . |
| 9 | And the movie is the story of their friendship and Donald Woods ' conversion , in a way , to the erm cause that erm called black consciousness which Steve Beeko erm promoted and so on , and it ends up with a sort of James Bond escape from South Africa in a way , in that Donald and his wife and his five children , harassed and threatened by the erm South African Government , finally escape . |
| 10 | If it ends up in a bark crevice , the seed may germinate and penetrate the tree . |
| 11 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
| 12 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 13 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 14 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 15 | There it has a store of food and a nest of grass and other materials in which it curls up into a ball , tucking in extremities . |
| 16 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 17 | In my view and also , if my memory serves me correctly , in Dr Reeves ' view , this is quite simply because it doubles up as a transmitter with very sharp rise and fall times on its pulse width modulated waveform . |
| 18 | To better appreciate the size of the sea , one can perhaps imagine it heaped up into a cube . |
| 19 | After that it picked up for a while , and we looked quite sharp again . |
| 20 | So if there 's one draw , for example , or one match which looks as though it stands out as an absolutely surefire score draw , and everybody puts it down , and it comes up as a score draw , then nobody gains anything . |
| 21 | So what you do is , to type check disk space slash and then it asks you wh if it comes up with a question , which I expect it may well , if you 've never done this before . |
| 22 | Each time it comes up with a reason , just smile and lovingly tell it that you now wish to give up your old payoffs , and believe that life is full of joy . |
| 23 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 24 | Anyway it ended up in a fight and he started pushing me around and went to punch me in the stomach but I managed to stop him . |
| 25 | It sat up like a squirrel , its spruce brown back tinted chestnut in the sunlight , its belly cream-coloured . |