Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 2 | Beyond the final lock , the canal joined a river , opening up into a very wide stretch of water , bounded by pleasant meadows and with scores of mooring places , most of them occupied . |
| 3 | Luke was silent until he drew up outside an imposingly formal grey stone house , then as he switched off the ignition he said , in tones of mock-comfort , ‘ Brace up , Merrill . |
| 4 | Once , at Lisson Grove , their car drew up alongside a rather battered Ford Cortina . |
| 5 | There are those who grow up in a very rigid and often fiercely religious environment , crushed into a mould , dictated by unbending rules and regulations , where little demonstrative love is shown . |
| 6 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 7 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 8 | All the originals are locked to prevent accident but the elements can be ungrouped and manipulated to create new designs or , given a colour system , you can try adjusting the colours of the elements and backgrounds — often ending up with an entirely new feel . |
| 9 | By the late seventeenth century , with its economic base vulnerable and its spiritual authority flouted , the Church was ill equipped to stand up to an increasingly dynamic State . |
| 10 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 11 | The most welcome caller is not the one who rings up with a carefully arranged bouquet of words delivered ‘ at the double ’ ; it is the one who calls to enquire , to listen , and to sympathise when necessary , leaving the elderly person feeling warmed and cared for . |
| 12 | Mark Linton , formerly a professor at Stanford University , now principal researcher at Silicon Graphics Inc , has come up with a completely new toolkit that can be applied to X-Windows . |
| 13 | In Italy , everything for years now has been political , even art , but just as most of Italian life is kicking against the ever looser traces of the big political parties , the Biennale has come up with a wholly unreconstructed , wholly political , Board of Management , approved under pressure from the Christian Democrats by the Prime Minister Giuliano Amato on 15 January . |
| 14 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 15 | And finally tonight Moseley rugby club have come up with a very different approach to pre-season training , I have to tell you it is not what you 'd expect from the lads from the Readings . |
| 16 | Lennie ( 1980 ) has come up with a more challenging suggestion . |
| 17 | No detergent is wasted either because Siemens has come up with a specially designed Ecovalve . |
| 18 | Recognising the problem , district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis . |
| 19 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 20 | Vivid Publishing in Los Altos , California , makers of the TypeView font utility for Next , has come up with an environmentally aware software packaging scheme it 's calling EarthPack and challenging other software vendors to do the same : it 's making the specifications available to any who inquire and will license the EarthPack name free of charge . |
| 21 | ‘ That is , of course , ’ he said , sitting up again suddenly , ‘ unless Father has come up with an entirely new factor he wants me to think about . ’ |
| 22 | The well-known debates over the religious implications of evolutionism were symptomatic of the social tensions that built up within an increasingly industrialized society . |
| 23 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 24 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 25 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 26 | Once again , tax planning objectives need to be recognised and worked on during the negotiation to come up with a mutually acceptable deal . |
| 27 | Ray Angel and Brian Hodgson were entrusted to come up with a suitably electronic-sounding voice . |
| 28 | Now if you 're a majority party you can instruct officers to come up with a specially paid reduction pol you pay for the policy , so you can then structure the system or look at the service and come up with a reduction , come up with an expansion |
| 29 | There were only thirty visitors over the weekend Only one signing up for an organically grown allotment.It seems the message has n't yet taken root with the general public . |
| 30 | The partnership struck three times within a fortnight last July , winding up with a particularly game effort to deny in-form Pickles by a length in a competitive seven furlong handicap at Ayr . |