Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 2 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 3 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 4 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 5 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 6 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 7 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 8 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 9 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 10 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 12 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 13 | If the audience did n't yell , ’ Awlright ! ’ when the other kids finally stand up to him , then the part did n't serve its purpose in the movie . ’ |
| 14 | When the car finally pulled up in St Aldate 's , the young driver opened the rear door and shook Sergeant Lewis awake , failing to notice that the first action of his passenger was to run the forefinger of his left hand slowly along his upper teeth . |
| 15 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 16 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
| 17 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 18 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 19 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 20 | TYCOON Richard Branson yesterday came up with the Christmas present for the person who has everything — the chance to pilot a jumbo jet . |
| 21 | ‘ Those that do have relationships usually end up with strong and critical women , a reflection of their regimented life as an adolescent . |
| 22 | MISS World flew back to her Russian homeland yesterday to face up to profiteers trying to cash in on her success . |
| 23 | Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations . |
| 24 | The GATT estimates that the cocaine industry still provides up to 15% of Bolivia 's gross domestic product ; official Bolivian statistics value it at $180m a year . |
| 25 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 26 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 27 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 28 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 29 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |