Example sentences of "up [prep] a [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 2 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 3 | It may be worth investing in a course of vitamin supplements — they ca n't make up for a poor diet but they can provide a useful boost occasionally . |
| 4 | To get the tickets you had to sign up for a complete tour and hospitality package , available through Travelforce , a travel agency in Durban — of which the then President of the Natal Rugby Union , and member of the Executive of the ( former ) SARB , just happened to be a director . |
| 5 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 6 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 7 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |
| 8 | Would a possible solution be for the son F to set up as a sole trader and eventually move to separate premises with perhaps other family members becoming partners of this business ? |
| 9 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 10 | Finally the ideas will end up as a useful product and some published papers . |
| 11 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 12 | Or will Doc Croc end up as a matching handbag and shoe set ! ? |
| 13 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 14 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 15 | These are usually made up of a central pit or cup , surrounded by one ring or concentric rings or spiral turns . |
| 16 | The growth of even limited literacy — and particularly the introduction of written records — laid the foundations for the dispossession of land , the setting up of a centralized bureaucracy and the suppression of indigenous cultures . |
| 17 | The President also urged the setting up of a constitutional court and the holding of referendums to settle future constitutional disputes . |
| 18 | Without the help of the S.D.S. the project seems doomed as the Region are unwilling to help and few of the local people would consent to council funds being used for the setting up of a permanent site or the renting of a plot of land as a short-term site until a permanent site can be found away from the town . |
| 19 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 20 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 21 | His small round face crinkled up like a naughty baby and , through his irritation , Georg found himself having to stifle a grin of his own . |
| 22 | At the moment of extinction , he had held the young man 's mind up like a pierced coconut and let all the thin milk trickle out . |
| 23 | When Northern crops crash up against a new pest or a new processing requirement , breeders hightail it back to the gene pool in search of the genetic variability that may help them . |
| 24 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah met up with a new man and start again . |
| 26 | But then Sunderland came up with a new offer and Liverpool launched a fresh diplomatic offensive . |
| 27 | Now I struggled to come up with a good word or phrase to describe that , but the one we use for now is multicultural . |
| 28 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 29 | These advanced techniques involve partnering up with a fellow student and following a step-by-step routine of attack , defence and counter-attack . |
| 30 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |