Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Only goes up to a certain height .
2 The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape .
3 The drawback is that your expert driver from the London Limousine Company ( SE1 ) only turns up for a minimum of eight hours — a standard feature of chauffeur hire .
4 He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife .
5 The fact that your copy-writers are so uninformed on this perhaps links up with the lack of information the manufacturers have on the need for their product .
6 A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone .
7 Russell and Ann Mills ' flat is particularly impressive as it is located on the upper floor of the school 's west wing ( Plate 37 and Fig 53 ) and so extends up into the apex of the steeply-pitched roof .
8 See the , the Salvation Army only comes up for the
9 I can always remove it later if something better comes up in the interim .
10 The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) .
11 If Britain finally signs up to the word ‘ irrevocable ’ , she will have crossed the Rubicon .
12 I 've been trying to get through to him in New York for weeks , and when he finally shows up in the office I 'm covered in green face-mask .
13 Lesley-Jane will be fine if she just rests up for a few days .
14 Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters .
15 The clubface effortlessly squares up to the ball-to-target line for a straight ball flight .
16 This almost exactly matches up with the periodic variation present in the Mercury-transit data .
17 Yeah but they just comes up to the door and says to her we 're going away now .
18 The engineer who sets about designing an efficient sonar or radar device soon comes up against a problem resulting from the need to make the pulses extremely loud .
19 The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) .
20 It is a world of high camp comedy and low-life sex , a world in which a drag queen eventually ends up with a rent boy .
21 He usually sits up at the window .
22 We are all used to thinking of the Earth as some kind of large magnet , with two magnetic poles located quite near the geographic North and South Poles , so that the needle of a compass always lines up in the same direction .
23 It was a lot of work for one man , he told me , which is why the name Hugh Cruttwell always turns up on the credits of his movies .
24 Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide .
25 Instead they form squelchy peat , which gradually builds up on the surface .
26 Although the walking programme and the diet routine are organised through Day 1 to 30 , we recommend that you begin the programme on a Monday , as the aerobic walking gradually builds up throughout the week , with more aerobic walking on weekends .
27 Some of the tracks have been available already — if you bought the limited edition live versions of the singles ‘ Stop ’ and ‘ Shivering Sand ’ — but ‘ IT ’ still holds up as a worthwhile representation of the Megas ' consistent live set ; in full and in earnest .
28 Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine .
29 And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared .
30 I said I feel sorry for Maggie , I says , cos she always ends up in the bloody middle , I says , and she whittles to death , I says , till the minute you get some money to feed them bairns , I says she 'll be awake nearly all night !
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