Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biologists may be able to determine the shape of molecules made up of amino acid chains , thereby predicting the effect of drugs before such drugs even exist . |
| 2 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 3 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 4 | CO 2 is also produced in huge amounts by burning fossil fuels — which of course are organic molecules built up by photosynthesis millions of years in the past . |
| 5 | Special care was used to avoid RNAse contamination ( baked glassware , solutions made up in water treated with diethylpyrocarbonate ) . |
| 6 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 7 | She had a white star , half-covered by a rough forelock , her ears pricked up with fear . |
| 8 | The vast constructions built up on slave labour by the Ancient Egyptians or Romans were therefore not possible in Romanesque Europe . |
| 9 | Then Jilly cast off her chadour and sang , a plaintive rendering of ‘ The Winter of Seventy-Nine ’ , and suddenly , as happens on these occasions , the knockabout mood changed , people stopped laughing , tears stood in eyes , as Jilly 's harsh , grating flat voice lamented the year and deplored the future , as her white , beaky , angry face gazed fiercely at the audience , as the confined energy of months swelled up in self-pity around the room , orchestrated by Jilly 's incantation : |
| 10 | ‘ Peggy ’ James , the proprietor , a heavily built man and had a wooden leg — hence his nickname — but he was remarkably speedy to provide quick service when cars drew up for petrol from his one , hand-operated pump . |
| 11 | And in London , where manufacturing industry and trade union strength have all but disappeared , the radicalism of the ‘ new urban left ’ was based on a coalition between white-collar unions and civil organizations built up outside work . |
| 12 | My eyes filled up with water , I did n't want to stay there I wanted to be with my mum . |
| 13 | ‘ Ortega 's limousines showed up about midnight that night , after a meeting with Neil Kinnock , ’ Mr Martin told the Exeter AGM . |
| 14 | When the last shot had been fired and the troops left for the United States , many GIs turned up at embarkation points with loyal canine friends concealed in their kit bags . |
| 15 | All this , besides the preliminary pasting of the wrapper , coloured paper and sandpaper had to be done 144 times for 2¼d , and even this is not all , for every drawer and case have to be fitted together , and the packets tied up with hemp . |
| 16 | Just pale , shiny bone in a box in a dark , musty library where the shelves of old books reached up into shadow . |
| 17 | The Marines suffer from burning sun and torrential rain ; flares sent up at night emit an eerie glow . |
| 18 | Lewis 's eyes looked up in puzzlement . |
| 19 | While most Pacific islanders grew up with radio and print media , television and video are new to almost everyone . |
| 20 | Piers looked up in surprise . |
| 21 | Lucy 's eyes lit up with warmth when she saw her . |
| 22 | He allowed his papers to drop on to the cabin floor , and his eyes lit up with interest . |
| 23 | Robbie 's eyes lit up with interest . |
| 24 | Her eyes lit up with understanding . |
| 25 | Selwyn 's eyes lit up with pleasure . |
| 26 | Virtually every stage in the firing and aiming process would be supervised by computers backed up by satellite links to the White House . |
| 27 | Poetry is images wrapped up in rhythm . |
| 28 | To pack and process them he needed staff , so our terms stipulated a minimum of two months ' summer work , the understanding being that when contracts came up for renewal , priority would be given to those who had put in most time on the slime-line . |
| 29 | Later on that week we were talking in the library again and somehow the topic of owls came up in conversation once more . |
| 30 | There was a military precision about the grounds and gardens — this avenue , once lined with Dutch Elm lies to the north of the house … where a statue of the first duke overlooks his home — to the south , there was once what was called the military parterre garden — a formal gardens made up of box hedges and gravel walks — now long gone . |