Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 2 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 3 | Indeed , clamber up through the rhododendron bushes to one of the crests beside the Lac d'Aumar and look over , and the landscape at once turns much harder and more hostile ; you know then you are on the edge of the truly wild Pyrenees . |
| 4 | I clamber up from the trackway on to the empty platform . |
| 5 | Oh certainly , certainly , erm boys grow up on the whole fairly secure in the knowledge that they have both work cells , occupational cells and also that they 'll be able to have families . |
| 6 | Allow your children to see your own grief so that they grow up with the idea that it is a natural reaction to an unhappy situation . |
| 7 | The uppers , though , curl around grow up through the skin of the nose and , still curling , turn back towards the animal 's forehead . |
| 8 | And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable . |
| 9 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 10 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 11 | Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position . |
| 12 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 13 | Hurry up with the scissors Pauly . |
| 14 | Oh god hurry up with the beer . |
| 15 | You hook up with the people on the same trip and work it from there . ’ |
| 16 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 17 | Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’ |
| 18 | The dust build up on the fan housing is dust which has already passed through the unit — and the disk drives ! |
| 19 | As soon as the flow becomes established , in fact , piles of solid lumps of lava build up at the sides of the flow , and help to confine it to its course . |
| 20 | In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players . |
| 21 | A bout of exercise of any kind is a wonderful outlet for the frustrations that build up during the day and it helps to release tension and enable us to relax . |
| 22 | US dollars build up in the UK bank 's NOSTRO account when US importers pay UK exporters in US$ ( see next example ) or when the UK bank buys in US$ in the foreign exchange market . |
| 23 | The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome . |
| 24 | It is also well known that the sediments build up in the summer and tend to be removed again in the winter . |
| 25 | This increases oxygen to the painful areas and at the same time removes the stagnant toxic wastes such as lactic and carbonic acids which build up in the muscle fibres . |
| 26 | But the more these greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere , the more heat is trapped and the more the Earth warms . |
| 27 | Any attempt to charge dry cells with conventional battery chargers causes severe electrolyte degradation , eventually shorting out the cell completely and leading to a very rapid heat build up inside the cell . |
| 28 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 29 | Experience of food poisoning outbreaks has shown that build up within the span of one working day of the type of bacteria that will cause major explosive outbreaks rarely occurs where hygiene practices are satisfactory . |
| 30 | IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament . |