Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 2 | Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling . |
| 3 | Rex called up AUDIO/VISUAL and then jumped back . |
| 4 | Lawns edge up to the roadside , porches glow in the night , people laugh behind screen doors , kids stay up late and cars cruise with open windows and jutting elbows . |
| 5 | This is much easier if the person carrying the legs moves up close and supports the front person under his stomach . |
| 6 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 7 | We can see the horse 's corners of the mouth pull up higher and higher , and the muscles in the face take on more and more definition . |
| 8 | The man 's wife had wasted no time going through his closets picking up worn and odd pairs . |
| 9 | Scrappy notes of lectures piled up unread and kept pouring in . |
| 10 | If you must go , for God 's sake turn up sober and keep your hands to yourself . |
| 11 | This provides a smooth surface to paint over and ensures that the colours come up clean and bright . |
| 12 | Manufacturers , flushed with success over their pink fluffy man campaign , and greedy with the realisation that they can make hill-walkers wear anything as long as it 's described as a technological breakthrough , are sitting in their factories dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to sell us . |
| 13 | Then the war loomed up black and sinister ; my work was going to be interrupted . |
| 14 | Pontblyddyn were sent back for 89 , Nicky Holt hitting 42 and Colin Peers 20 not out as Phil Williams picked up 6–33 and Tim Davies 3–51 . |
| 15 | At first Carrie hardly dared look at her but when she did she saw nothing alarming or sinister , just an old lady with silvery hair piled up high and a pale , invalid 's face . |
| 16 | If you would like to find out how to help your kitten grow up healthy and strong , Whiskas have produced a booklet ‘ Know Your Cat ’ that tells you all about her needs from kittenhood to adulthood . |
| 17 | As the big vessel came up tense and turgid I thrust in the needle and injected the adrenalin . |
| 18 | The market will allow firms to buy up current and future pollution allowances . |
| 19 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 20 | For those too young to remember the 1960s , Niki de Saint Phalle 's name conjures up wacky and colourful Nanas ( French slang for woman ) , whose harmlessness is matched only by their price tag and Partisian chic , neatly caricatured by a tacky perfume she put her name to in 1982 . |
| 21 | Harry curled up tighter and groaned , then opened his eyes . |
| 22 | And the smoke coming up thick and heavy . |
| 23 | To complete the portrait took three sittings and each time , to Indenbaum 's surprise , Modigliani turned up clean-shaven and well-groomed , and behaved in a modest , almost shy manner . |
| 24 | The high , family cheek-bones stuck up gaunt and stark and her narrow shoulders jutted through the fabric of her sweater like bony wings . |
| 25 | Every bend in the road opens up new and varied landscapes . |
| 26 | Now he is in a world where it 's nothing to fly to the Bahamas for a conference — and for a conference that 's probably not even going to be in the Bahamas ; a world where very high-class girls ring up uninvited and try to make you feel at home . |
| 27 | Flintshire captain Gareth Ryan snapped up 4–24 and his county partner Keith Madeley 3–15 , paving the way for St Asaph to collect a six wicket win and claim maximum points . |
| 28 | But seeking your assistance , ’ and Calatin sat up straighter and looked pleased . |
| 29 | The fabric of our schools , public buildings and roads store up bigger and bigger bills for the future . |
| 30 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |