Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 4 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 5 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 6 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 7 | When the car finally pulled up in St Aldate 's , the young driver opened the rear door and shook Sergeant Lewis awake , failing to notice that the first action of his passenger was to run the forefinger of his left hand slowly along his upper teeth . |
| 8 | An out-of-condition horse ie a horse just brought up from grass and worked too hard , too soon ; |
| 9 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 10 | MISS World flew back to her Russian homeland yesterday to face up to profiteers trying to cash in on her success . |
| 11 | The GATT estimates that the cocaine industry still provides up to 15% of Bolivia 's gross domestic product ; official Bolivian statistics value it at $180m a year . |
| 12 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 13 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 14 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 15 | Solid lumps of lava also pile up in front of the advancing nose of the lava . |
| 16 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 17 | These myths mostly trace to his own misleading reminiscences later in life , and have been relentlessly reaffirmed since , at the 1959 centennial symposia for example and in the 1978 BBC-TV series on Darwin ; but they are nonetheless discredited by the scholarly industry now grown up around the rich manuscript archive from Darwin 's early years ( Kohn , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Is your mind really made up about Lovat ? " |
| 19 | They need a good result tomorrow to keep up with the promotion chase . |
| 20 | 7 The defender then follows up with a reverse punch to the spine . |
| 21 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 22 | The Automobile Association recently linked up with Air Call , the paging operator to offer a paging system , AA Roadwatch , that provides traffic information to drivers . |
| 23 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 24 | Until Mr Martyn moves , he must now keep his invalid car safely locked up inside his flat . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 27 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 28 | Yet most social workers find their work intensively bound up with families . |
| 29 | All I have to do is push down , the man inside pushes up and the wardrobe slowly comes up like that . |
| 30 | 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 . |