Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diatoms calcium hydrogen carbonate skeletal material these things are probably ending up predominantly as deep sea sediments pelagic sediments , yeah , remember ? |
| 2 | When it starts up fully in 1985 , the plant should produce some 500 tonnes of tin a year , one tenth of Cornwall 's present output . |
| 3 | Evidence of widespread heroin use in the community built up rapidly during 1983–4 . |
| 4 | And though Security Pacific says its talks with Wells Fargo were discontinued and that ‘ no further talks are currently under way or contemplated , ’ most bank analysts like to believe that they will be picked up again at some point — unless the banks find other partners first . |
| 5 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 6 | And I do n't think any of us really picked up much from that . |
| 7 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 8 | WASHED-OUT Britain was mopping up yesterday after one month 's rain fell overnight … yet we 're STILL in the middle of a drought . |
| 9 | Meanwhile blockbusters including Phantom Of The Opera and Miss Saigon are booked up well into 1993 . |
| 10 | After two or three such years their numbers build up spectacularly within favoured areas . |
| 11 | The heating in the Met Office was by means of an open coke fire , and this we kept stoked up high on cold nights , but I 'm not sure that this was such a good idea . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) As an ‘ unregistered company , ’ I.B.C. is amenable to the jurisdiction of the English court to wind up unregistered companies under Part V of the Act of 1986 , though it may not be wound up voluntarily under that Act : see section 221(4) . |
| 13 | This conveyed almost the speaking tone of the writer , as he might glance up impishly from one of his colloquies with the carpet . |
| 14 | The 20-mile chalk stream has dwindled to a trickle , and it dried up altogether for long periods in the past three drought years , after the drilling of six drinking water boreholes by the Thames Water Authority ( now the Thames Water company ) lowered the water table . |
| 15 | After my mother died he decided to stay on and make a living hunting , so I 've grown up here with Annamese boys and girls of my own age . |
| 16 | Julia was picking up enough about English society to realise that all this made Caretaker of more consequence in Medewich than she had thought . |
| 17 | He could n't remember the transition from sofa to bed , but he must have made it because he woke up there in total darkness with a headache and a blocked nose and a sense that something was not quite right . |
| 18 | A powerful imagery of both the physical form of the future city and the shape of the society likely to live there was built up particularly by European architects . |
| 19 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 20 | Ex-Sun/ex-Rational executive Bill Keating has turned up there as vice president , partners and licensing . |
| 21 | What a coincidence that this particular name should crop up twice within twenty-four hours ! |
| 22 | Smith and Hannaford teaming up again with fly half , Neil Matthews diving in . |
| 23 | Or maybe the strange , timeless , other-world influence of the Casa Sciorto , of Mdina itself , slumbering up here on this rocky hill , in its ancient , secretive walls … |
| 24 | Imagine yourself drifting on a tranquil lake one warm summer evening while the setting sun bathes an Alpine meadow ; imagine walking leisurely among scented pine woods and looking up wonderously at jagged peaks ; imagine simply strolling through a picturesque medieval town , admiring lovely gardens and sampling a range of regional gastronomic treats . |
| 25 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 26 | PAT officials say the number of cases has shot up dramatically in recent months , and is now running at about one case each week . |
| 27 | ‘ I came up here for some headache tablets , ’ she continued matter-of-factly . |
| 28 | The local Wiccans came up here on warm nights to dance around in their bare scuddies . |
| 29 | We went into Street for a few years and then we came up here in nineteen twenty eight . |
| 30 | Freezebranding does n't show up well on grey horses or when rugs are worn . |