Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7. aria lived just up Eastern Avenue — let's face it , half the world lives up Eastern Avenue — in Redbridge , in one of those huge roadside vicarage-like houses which has had to be turned into a rest home for the elderly because no one else could afford to pay the rates . |
| 2 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 3 | Mike Shell and Tony Sawbridge found Kathleen Turner ( HVS ) on the Outer St James Stone , and in Short Story Zawn , In One Bound E2 5c , starts up Big Shiner then traverses right onto the face left of Tall Story . |
| 4 | Pauline rings up last week , sent me a fax er with the schedule on and there was the seven O one Os were missing off it so I rang up and said , you know , we 've not got any schedule on these two bearings Pauline . |
| 5 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 6 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 7 | Caldicot tees up municipal crown |
| 8 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 9 | Raider holds up sub-post office |
| 10 | Right so if someone holds up this piece and you hold up this piece to your mum and you say what sort of fraction is this ? |
| 11 | This is because slight frosting on the eyes covers up careless blending and matt lipsticks have often been too dry-looking . |
| 12 | The degree to which such fear exists can be judged by the ease with which the gutter press froths up public agitation over stories concerning discharged former offenders . |
| 13 | In addition , our data clearly suggest that — similar to duodenal ulcers — eradication of H pylori infection speeds up gastric ulcer healing , with a six week healing rate of about 85% as opposed to 60% in gastric ulcer patients with persistent H pylori colonisation . |
| 14 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 15 | It puts formulae in , that 's very useful , as I say it 's formulae uses up most memory , but it does n't put everything . |
| 16 | Recent studies by the authority have shown that partially treated sewage going into the River Severn from the plant uses up valuable oxygen and is partly to blame for the death of some fish . |
| 17 | ‘ The main reason we go for the leasing option is because it frees up working capital , ’ says John Preen , treasury manager . |
| 18 | Using offshore trusts like this is entirely legal , it also frees up extra money , and that may be needed in future . |
| 19 | Here the Leeds-Liverpool canal climbs up Five Rise Locks at Bingley . |
| 20 | Wakes up each day demanding ‘ What is fresh in the market ? ’ , buys only the best , and creates a superb , no-choice menu — reaffirming her customers ' belief in her quality every day . |
| 21 | Van Peebles père soured on Hollywood after directing the now-classic comedy ‘ Watermelon Man ’ ( 1969 ) , about a suburban businessman who wakes up one morning to find himself black . |
| 22 | But all that happens at the end is that he wakes up one morning , goes outside , gets into a balloon and takes off . ’ |
| 23 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 24 | He wakes up one morning and though he does n't know it , he must suspect it — the party 's over . |
| 25 | Either , he finds ‘ time dragging terribly ’ and returns to work , or , he resists this urge , takes off to the seaside , wakes up one morning , says ‘ Twenty years retired , it seems like only five minutes , ’ and drops dead . |
| 26 | Cos when he wakes up this morning bright as a lark . |
| 27 | But with oil prices tumbling — North Sea prices fell 38 p.c. to $17.75 a barrel over the year — and production costs up 80 p.c. , the company incurred a £2.09m trading loss , against a £659,000 profit , after depletion costs of £7.81m ( £5.22m ) . |
| 28 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
| 29 | Yeah have you seen when he blows up that guy ? |
| 30 | So in Scout 's case , her innocence leads her through her childhood and because she is too young to understand fully the barrier between the different races she lives among , she is saved from the emotional torments other people suffer , but in Perk 's case her innocence leads her straight into a very touchy emotional situation and ends up suffering death , too young to understand why . |