Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |
| 2 | A highly complex drug made up of a whole series of chemicals with different reaction times , designed to fire particular synapses in the brain itself — to create , if you like , a false landscape of experience . |
| 3 | Dot was n't allowed into Mrs Parvis 's kitchen except at the regulation meal-times and she was n't sure about how food was prepared , but she was pretty certain that when Mrs Parvis cooked what was called a nice egg-dish , it was made from an orange coloured powder spooned up from a deep cylindrical tin . |
| 4 | Dan got up from the breakfast bar . |
| 5 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 6 | The Brazilian panelinhas are informal groups made up of a number of dyadic contracts , that is , people linked by personal ties — family , kin , friends — but the members are selected according to their occupation . |
| 7 | Each of these in turn subdivided into separate , smaller fibrils which are themselves composed of a highly organized array of myofilaments made up of the proteins actin and myosin ( Fig. 53 ) . |
| 8 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 9 | Philippa got up from the chair she had brought into the kitchen , went to take the cloth from Lee 's lap , decided against it , and started to wipe up the insidious liquid with tissues . |
| 10 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 11 | Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on . |
| 12 | Honor got up like an old woman , glancing past Topaz to the shelves where bottles of medicine were stored . |
| 13 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 14 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 15 | Tomorrow night we 're back with the display team , this time in the city of San Diego where huge and hungry crowds built up for a game of American football . |
| 16 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 17 | The VW drew up at the pumps about twenty minutes later . |
| 18 | We had just finished the DI ( daily inspection ) when a very elderly photographer wandered up with a rickety tripod and ancient camera . |
| 19 | The bike drew up in the yard under the tree . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 21 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 22 | Maloney said : ‘ If we have to fight Tucker we will , but I 've got Alex Stewart lined up for the first defence . ’ |
| 23 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 24 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 25 | On past trips to Japan and Saudi Arabia Philip Somerville created up to a dozen hats for her . |
| 26 | He scanned her tense expression , his eyes crinkled up against the sun . |
| 27 | Aldhelm got up from the turf on which a new and unsteady lamb was also trying to get to its feet , nuzzled by the quivering ewe . |
| 28 | To that figure he added a total of three hundred and fifty two thousand one hundred and seven pounds for the future made up of a yearly figure of thirty nine thousand one hundred and twenty three pounds for Mrs evidence , multiplied by nine . |
| 29 | And being married to David made up for a great many afternoon teas and Women 's Institute meetings . |
| 30 | A dim lamp swung over the entrance where three steps led up into the foyer . |