Example sentences of "[vb base] up at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |
| 2 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 3 | What are the cargoes we pick up at short notice and deliver to out-of-the-way ports in Africa ? |
| 4 | Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice , so you have to be flexible . |
| 5 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 6 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 7 | Nor had they gone far before she was forced to stand still and stare up at tall tree-ferns , their gracefully curving fronds sheltering the path like a row of lofty umbrellas . |
| 8 | My goggles ice up at regular intervals and I wipe them with my glove , afraid that I will miss the trail a groundless fear as the dogs follow the pack scent . |
| 9 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
| 10 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 11 | Half the fun of viewing them is that subjects come up at random . |