Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in such classic areas as the Mississippi delta , where sediment is thought to be accumulating rapidly , there is plenty of evidence to suggest that , after building up for a while , much of it is carried away again . |
| 2 | Amanda was rescued after meeting up with a group of hikers who escorted her out of the bush . |
| 3 | Her only son died aged 23 while a Japanese prisoner of war after joining up as a volunteer instead of pursuing his exempt profession as a metallurgical chemist . |
| 4 | The male can maintain a fairly equable distribution of grooming up to a harem size of five females . |
| 5 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 6 | Clearly , unless these features are defined with precision , there is a danger of ending up with a tautological explanation : what is recent must also be novel because it is recent . |
| 7 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 8 | But many still fear and dislike the idea of ending up in a home . |
| 9 | He 'd think nothing of checking up on a fellow 's credentials . |
| 10 | Unlike its predecessors , Warrior is capable of keeping up with a Main Battle Tank across country |
| 11 | The only problem was the , term , drug content , a problem Dr Thompson planned to solve personally , by an ingenious change in his ending ; instead of driving up to a plane , he would drive into it , and explode . |
| 12 | The BMW 525i is 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing up to a speed of 143 mph . |
| 13 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
| 14 | They accused him of dressing up as a woman to seduce his enemies , and of fancying Elmer Fudd . |
| 15 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 16 | Not to dream of playing at Valderrama again ( I 'm tired of waking up in a cold sweat ) . |
| 17 | So I think you 've , both those questions have got ta be addressed by the , the unions that the s , that the , the second one in terms of turning up on a Saturday . |
| 18 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 19 | It 's a struggle with young people , alongside them as they experience the pleasures and pains , the excitements and disappointments of growing up in a hostile world . |
| 20 | He also disclosed that the company is considering moving up to a full listing . |
| 21 | The oceanic crust of the East Pacific Plate does collide with the continental mass of South America but instead of piling up in a heap , it ducks down , and dives under the continent ; the site of the ‘ bend ’ being below the 7,500 metre deep Chile-Peru Trench , while the zone of actual sliding contact between oceanic and continental crust is defined by the 60 degree dipping earthquake belt , the Benioff zone . |
| 22 | Okosan Securities , one of Japan 's 10 largest securities companies , has declared that it is considering tying up with a London-based company to take advantage of its knowledge and expertise in the specialised area of offshore investment . |
| 23 | This seemed a far more promising environment , and we quickly accepted the couple 's invitation to abandon our base in Makassar and move in with them in Bira , since it would clearly take many more weeks of negotiating before we could be sure of coming up with a prahu , and a crew , reliable enough to carry us eastwards . |
| 24 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 25 | The whole idea of erm a fax is to get the thing there quickly is n't it ? if it 's sort of sitting up on a desk for three days before they bring it down . |
| 26 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 27 | One common kind is the pill woodlouse ( Armadillidium ) which is easily identified by its habit of rolling up into a ball when it is touched . |
| 28 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 29 | But we 're concentrating this week and next week on the advocacy skill of standing up before a court . |
| 30 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |