Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 2 | The gang eventually gave up after a priest intervened . |
| 3 | We heard a chorus slowly start up and deepen , far back into the forest night . |
| 4 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 5 | The sheep were tearing across the field all bunched up together . |
| 6 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 7 | It was towards the end of the main course , some sort of en croûte affair which Karen must have bought oven-ready at Marks and Spencer 's , that the muscles in the arch of my right foot suddenly seized up . |
| 8 | He tore it open and found that it was n't empty , just that the fine powder inside took up so little space . |
| 9 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 10 | Thatcher 's administration eventually wound up both the PAR system and CPRS . |
| 11 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 12 | The fire brigade eventually turned up , because the police had cancelled they tu turned them ou turned them out again . |
| 13 | Extraordinary in Yorkshire , where the most profound emotion slowly worked up and out , tightly wrapped into the cold air , channelled through flat vowels , into a word or at most a single sentence , while all the rest was conveyed only with the slightest movement of the body . |
| 14 | You may find at this point that you have to adjust your thoughts , if only by a little , to get this idea equation properly lined up . |
| 15 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 16 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 17 | The superintendent suddenly looked up , her eyes flashing . |
| 18 | The blunt end of the club suddenly came up and pressed against his cheek , and then moved around to rest against his teeth . |
| 19 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 20 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 21 | If practise breeds professionalism and The Wishplants are this adept now , in six months time they 'll have the gap all sewn up . |
| 22 | Fixed and inventory investment together made up almost 13% of TFE in 1991 . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if the weather is already hot and the water temperature is 70° F. or more , then the wind suddenly springs up and brings a drop in water temperature and a rise in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water , you can also expect fish . |
| 24 | Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood . |
| 25 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 26 | Tension just builds up and it builds up , and when you come out you say , ‘ Right , I 've got nothing to lose anyway , I 've been to prison so I know what it 's like . |
| 27 | When the car finally pulled up in St Aldate 's , the young driver opened the rear door and shook Sergeant Lewis awake , failing to notice that the first action of his passenger was to run the forefinger of his left hand slowly along his upper teeth . |
| 28 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 29 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 30 | The club have chartered a special flight from Manchester to Bologna and over 100 fans hare already booked up to travel with the official party . |