Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 2 | Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe . |
| 3 | I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ . |
| 4 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 5 | It adds up to all the portable power you could need — at a price that 's uniquely CompuAdd . |
| 6 | Division adds up to few rhythmic pluses |
| 7 | It all adds up to some very big changes , not only in direction but also in the whole philosophy of Russia 's attitude to the West . |
| 8 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 9 | But as for the Manson Classic S , I reckon it adds up like this . |
| 10 | Also player-for-player the team circa 72 was probably better , but Strachan ranks up with those immortals and in time Speed , Batty , McAllister Dorigo and Rod Wallace may do too . |
| 11 | As life speeds up like this I move among the urban people , in the urban setting , the city 's metal and mortar , its sharper interactions , with more grit and bite in the gears . |
| 12 | It forms a film all over the surface and essentially erm climbs up through this film and , and will empty out of the bucket . |
| 13 | The factory fills up with more and more of these rogue machines , each churning out rogue blueprints for making more machines that will make more of themselves . |
| 14 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 15 | Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie . |
| 16 | See how he perks up after this . |
| 17 | According to European manager Rick Mellinger , ImageFlow is n't tightly-coupled to an application : instead , the client-server-based software links up to any application via an Application Programming Interface , enabling workflow processing to be separated from application processing . |
| 18 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 19 | And then the next night he shows up for more . |
| 20 | That Hubbard and Lewontin are biologists by profession shows up in several ways . |
| 21 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the dominant female still ends up with most eggs . |
| 23 | However , says Freud , ideally , morality and social order should be based , not on the pleasure principle , but on the reality principle , and , and , and he ends up with this book invoking the idea that science should replace erm , religion in , in this respect . |
| 24 | After more adventures , the story ends up at another of Tom 's aunts , with Jim ( the nigger ) recaptured , Finn mistaken for Tom , and Tom turning up pretending to be his own brother ! |
| 25 | What leads up to this actualization is not specified , the very fact of something having led to it constituting that which is judged negatively by the speaker . |
| 26 | A further dog-leg stair leads up from this level to second-floor guest accommodation located entirely in the roof space framed by the original trusses , and a narrow bridge leads across from the head of the stair to a complementary study balcony ( Fig 38 ) . |
| 27 | A newel staircase leads up from either end . |
| 28 | Professor Leopold Kohr clears up after another burglary at his home just outside Gloucester . |
| 29 | 1.30:TALENTED claimer Rodney Farrant teams up with former Gold Cup hero Norton 's Coin , but the combination face a very stiff task over this inadequate trip . |
| 30 | ‘ You would n't believe how the paperwork mounts up in such a short time . ’ |