Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Lesley-Jane will be fine if she just rests up for a few days . |
| 5 | Polar Star is no exception ; its lovely clueless opening soon snarls up in a mess of motives and half-finished characters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 12 | It usually ends up like a cross between The Sun 's ‘ Things You Never Knew ’ column and The Times Literary Review . |
| 13 | I , I am friendly with them you know I , I go every Wednesday there , for er , well when I can , every Wednesday because something , something always creeps up on a Wednesday to keep away from them , er , sort of for tea and then with |
| 14 | Strach usually comes up with a couple of good uns . |
| 15 | A hedgehog tries to climb up the net and when it hears you approach it promptly rolls up into a ball . |
| 16 | ‘ Amber always runs up for a hug when I walk through the door ’ , she says . |
| 17 | Nationwide is giving new borrowers 12 months ' free unemployment , accident and sickness insurance as part of a mortgage package that also offers up to a two percentage point discount off the variable mortgage rate . |
| 18 | The central membrane is threaded lengthways through the centre of the cylinder and also blows up like a balloon when the chamber is filled with grapes , only the pressure outwards is even , gently crushing the fruit in all directions . |
| 19 | The height of style The unique design of this foldable resin highchair means that you can set it a seven different height positions and it also doubles up as a low chair with removable tray . |
| 20 | Of course , where the wealth goes is a problem , since it often ends up in a few hands . |
| 21 | Now this kind of behaviour often ends up in a fierce debate about guidebook descriptions and grades of the participants ' favourite routes . |
| 22 | If the launch is too fast the pilot simply pulls up into a steeper climb . |
| 23 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 24 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 25 | The spatial quantisation scheme in k -space then breaks up into a series of concentric circles about the field 's direction ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 26 | 7 The defender then follows up with a reverse punch to the spine . |
| 27 | What sometimes happens you s it sometimes comes up to a wee yellow head . |
| 28 | A well-known alcoholic who unexpectedly turns up at a cocktail party may inadvertently communicate the fact that his sessions with AA have given him newfound confidence in his self-control . |
| 29 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 30 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |