Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back . |
| 2 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 3 | Biologists may be able to determine the shape of molecules made up of amino acid chains , thereby predicting the effect of drugs before such drugs even exist . |
| 4 | With devastating confidence , he thrust his finger deep into her molten heat , then raked his fingers back up across her stomach to her breasts with a convulsive , possessive , shuddering movement which triggered a huge surge of longing inside her , so strong she felt dizzy . |
| 5 | Decorating your Christmas tree with chains made up of red chillies is just one of the original ideas in the company 's seasonal title Malcolm Hillier 's Christmas ( Price : £12.99 ) . |
| 6 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 7 | We had to answer technical questions put forward by the new investigating judge , Dr Rosario Priore and his appointed Commission of experts made up of 10 Italian , British , German and Swedish avionics and radar experts , ’ says Steve . |
| 8 | The drip , drip of winter skis propped up outside rooms have left their their sallow mark . |
| 9 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 10 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 11 | Early neolithic farmers favoured multistrand crescentic necklaces made up of tubular and disc-shaped beads kept apart by laterally perforated oblong spacer beads and pulled together by triangular toggles . |
| 12 | The EC does not believe that recognition will be a panacea for Bosnia , the tinderbox of the First World War and a patchwork of warring groups made up of 60 per cent Muslims , 30 per cent Serbs and 20 per cent Croats . |
| 13 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 14 | Later astronomers made extensive alterations , and added new groups made up of stars stolen from the existing 48 . |
| 15 | They were ably supported by the Corradini Ensemble and the University Singers , two groups made up of current students . |
| 16 | This review is done every year and leads to the publication of a Programme of Work and to the setting up of module development groups made up of industrial , commercial and education representatives . |
| 17 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 18 | We want our houses to go up in in value and this sort of is not important to us ! |
| 19 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 20 | His view is that consumers should be told the whole truth : ‘ If the public wants fish fingers made up of minced fish that 's OK , so long as they are told and can make up their own minds . |
| 21 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 22 | The result is often a hesitation in buying new technologies until they are proven , and a pace of negotiation which is both fatiguing and maddening to Westerners caught up in it . |
| 23 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 24 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 25 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 26 | Figure 10 Crystal forms built up from spheroidal atoms from A. Ure , Dictionary of Chemistry , third edition , London , 1828 , after W. H. Wollaston whose models are in the Science Museum , London . |
| 27 | It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers . |
| 28 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 29 | 3 A corporate tie-up between privileged interests and state may be threatened by the emergence onto the political agenda of new groups and new " citizen " concerns that fall outside of the incorporation that bears on groups caught up in economic issues and the division of labour . |
| 30 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |