Example sentences of "and [vb base] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will differ according to the richness of the environment provided by the home and the wider community , but all children live and grow up in a print-rich world full of writing and people who write . |
| 2 | All these things make their own contribution and add up in a complex way . |
| 3 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 4 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 5 | I crawl into my sleeping bag and curl up in a tight ball . |
| 6 | In Sailors Three ( 1940 , Three Cockeyed Sailors in US ) , Tommy Trinder and his companions get drunk and end up on a German ship which , more by mishap than demon cunning , they occupy and deliver to their commander . |
| 7 | You discover a long lost pocket of goodness in your soul and end up with a sore neck after adopting a passable imitation of a toy dog on the back shelf of a car . |
| 8 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
| 9 | functions and come up with a revised profit and loss . |
| 10 | ‘ If you let people use their abilities , they will normally walk their way around their difficulties and come up with a straightforward solution , ’ says Neil . |
| 11 | The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off . |
| 12 | I shall need a first-class advertising agency which can identify the main market and come up with a good campaign to target it , woo it with words and obtain a high conversion rate of sales . ’ |
| 13 | A and I can get er Ken and my clerks to ferret through the old contracts , and all the variations that we 've had to date , and come up with a suggested erm latest remit for the project coordinator to approve . |
| 14 | For a department within C U and er we 've done this design on it , and come up with a new system , that we want to try and sell to other departments within the company . |
| 15 | If I could just discover one , and come up with a catchy marketing phrase like ‘ Turn on , Tune in , Drop out ’ , I might well become the next Timothy Leary . |