Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I sit down they billow up in front of me and I look as if I 've got a water melon under there . |
| 2 | What is now becoming clear is that clozapine produces a build up of dopamine in different receptors from other neuroleptics , and this gives a strong indication that another neurochemical abnormality underlies at least some symptoms of the disorder . |
| 3 | Filbert brushes are less inclined to have a build up of colour at the edges and can be versatile . |
| 4 | I have found that a build up of infusoria in the tank over this period can reduce the number of fry that reach the free swimming stage . |
| 5 | Although some of this effect was the build up of turf over the years , no doubt this type of architecture was made necessary by the wild weather experienced on the island . |
| 6 | Use a shave hook to remove build up of paint from drip grooves . |
| 7 | Because of the build up of venom in their system the Forest Goblin shamans inhabit a dream-like world haunted by strange spider gods and shadowy eight-legged daemons . |
| 8 | This causes a build up of pressure in the solution compartment until , at equilibrium , the pressure exactly counteracts the tendency for further solvent flow . |
| 9 | There was little to be done to prevent this inexorable build up of pressure from the roots . |
| 10 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 11 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 12 | Such errors show up from time to time as inconsistencies in the records , but much worse are those that go undetected , and which could lead to the wrong conclusions being drawn when the records are analysed . |
| 13 | Mhm , when I started in here er I just got put up to work beside one of the women , she just showed me , |
| 14 | APIVOTAL £21million stake in besieged merchant bank Morgan Grenfell was yesterday put up for auction by Hanson as talks which could have heralded a Morgan-BZW merger broke down . |
| 15 | Fourth Division Cardiff City were yesterday put up for sale at £2 million by the club 's financial controller . |
| 16 | The highlight of this sale of French and continental furniture and tapestries is to be found among pieces put up for sale by Lord Elgin and supplied to his ancestor Thomas , the Seventh Earl , by Martin-Eloy Lignereux . |
| 17 | Kumar 's company , BRS Kumar Brothers , has gone into receivership and its 84% stake in the first division club is part of the assets put up for sale by the receivers . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm interested in being part of a subversive band of people who live or die by what they put up in front of an audience . |
| 19 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 20 | The good news is that , even in the minority of cases where the only solution is to leave your job and try your luck elsewhere , it is unusual for a dispute to arise that is so serious that you finish up in front of a judge or an industrial tribunal . |
| 21 | So if we just add up over sort of the time horizon of this person , this person 's life , right , his expected wage in agriculture , right , it 's going to be this , this , this area here . |
| 22 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State agree that the individual totals announced today do not in all cases stand up to comparison with real-terms increases south of the border ? |
| 24 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 25 | I just pop up from time to time to see if Bob 's all right . ’ |
| 26 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |
| 27 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |
| 28 | The story is brought bang up to date with chapters on the Falklands conflict and the more recent Gulf War . |
| 29 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 30 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |