Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 2 | The canes , which grow up to 5ft tall , are bright green to purplish in colour . |
| 3 | They grow up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) in length and up to 3/4 inch ( 2cms ) in width . |
| 4 | ‘ Smooth Angel ’ , white with a pink flush and the pink ‘ Smooth Lady ’ , grow up to 1.5m , while the magenta rose ‘ Smooth Velvet ’ reaches about 1.2m . |
| 5 | These attractive plants grow up to 2ft tall and have lilac blue flowers with the petals on the circumference much larger than those in the centre . |
| 6 | As more farms , some extending right to the water 's edge , grow up around Chesapeake , spring and summer rains dump new sediment into its waters so that the trophic zone is reduced : bottom-growing plants are now able to photosynthesise only in shallow water . |
| 7 | The relatively low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome among Bangladeshi babies in Britain represents something of a paradox , since many of these babies grow up in conditions that would predict a relatively higher incidence of the syndrome . |
| 8 | Such treatment does not improve germination ( they are protected by a hard endocarp during their animal passage ) , but seedlings grow up in dung piles in clearings : the species is shade-intolerant . |
| 9 | Most young people in Britain grow up in families , and it is generally acknowledged that the family plays an important part in the development of the future adult . |
| 10 | Only with the plantation of Scottish settlers to Ulster did any profound cultural division grow up in Ireland which remained ideologically Catholic and Gaelic . |
| 11 | Differential association starts with the observation that we all grow up in environments where we receive , from our associates , definitions both favourable and unfavourable to the acquisition of the motives for and the techniques to commit crime . |
| 12 | ‘ Cheer up for Chatham , Dover 's in sight . ’ |
| 13 | After a week , top up with water . |
| 14 | Top up at Wessex |
| 15 | Etna-watchers slip up on lava flow |
| 16 | Arsenal will go top of the League for the first time since May '91 today if they beat Coventry and Blackburn slip up against Spurs at Ewood Park . |
| 17 | City : Bodycote up by 9pc |
| 18 | ‘ Come on , hurry up for Christ 's sake . ’ |
| 19 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 20 | Every person or animal that follows the path seems to leave a trail of energy , and these energy paths build up over time . |
| 21 | Responding to Mrs Thatcher 's initiative is one way in which radicals build up over time an alternative election programme . |
| 22 | A knowledge of the context in which acts of sabotage occur — the lack of alternatives available to workers , the frustrations that build up over time — often shows sabotage to have been an understandable response . |
| 23 | These images build up into stereotypes ; generalizations about what is to be expected of older people , which are based at best on partial information rather than the full diversity of their real lives . |
| 24 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 25 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 26 | In bathrooms , scale build up on shower heads constricts water flow , whilst build up around sanitary fittings and lavatory bowls is unsightly and unhygienic . |
| 27 | Due to mechanical imperfections in the gyros of the inertial guidance equipment , errors build up with time , so the missile periodically updates its position with equipment known as TERCOM ( terrain contour matching ) . |
| 28 | The system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and within the pipework . |
| 29 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 30 | The build up of fumes was too quick for safety checks to pinpoint . |