Example sentences of "it [verb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 3 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 4 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 5 | It came up with a risky and controversial course of action : close the county 's ‘ surplus ’ long-stay residential homes and reinvest in specialist community-based services for elderly people . |
| 6 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 7 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
| 8 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |
| 9 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 10 | Then , as it grows up in a normal , average temperature , the hotter area of its body — its central trunk region — remains pale in colour , while its cooler extremities become gradually darker . |
| 11 | It popped up in a recent Capes , Dunn sale of toys , teddy bears , model railways et al and made £190 . |
| 12 | When the slow-moving potto is approached by an enemy , it curls up into a tight ball , clings on to its branch and lowers its head between its legs so that the back of its spiky neck is thrust towards the predator . |
| 13 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 14 | It opens up into a fantastic cavern , which glistens and sparkles as though lit by an invisible Light . |
| 15 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 16 | People begin to become aware of this , and their thoughts and feelings gradually enable it to build up into a powerful tribal god . |
| 17 | Does a certain relationship retain its explanatory power for a number of countries rather than just for one — can it stand up to a comparative analysis ? |
| 18 | It folds up into a neat , easy-to-store carrying case when not in use . |
| 19 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 20 | As night fell on Stabiae , Vesuvius presented an awesome sight , with the oppressively heavy ash cloud above it lit up in a baleful red glare from the many fires that had been started by the rain of hot ash . |
| 21 | And then , when he could n't step back any further , he would walk forward , watching the shadow shrink before him until it ended up as a small and pathetic figure beneath his feet . |
| 22 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |