Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 2 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 3 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 4 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 5 | I was concerned to understand what it was like to leave school and grow up in a world with little work . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean removing the obvious , stupid ways of doing things which grow up within a business . |
| 7 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 8 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 9 | The resistance to this shearing will start at nothing , build up to a maximum , and decline again to zero when the atoms get to the top of the hump . |
| 10 | Ten Joseph tunes line up alongside a poppy cover version of Curtis Mayfield 's The Other Side of Town ; all fall together under a common musical blanket that 's soft , funky , rolling and affectionate . |
| 11 | It won ‘ t show up as a registration , so no phonecalls out and no calling reception or room service , either . |
| 12 | Prop up with a cocktail stick from behind if necessary . |
| 13 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 14 | Probably shrivel up like a cactus in a microwave . |
| 15 | Two men walk up with a patient between them . |
| 16 | Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord . |
| 17 | Every day , the wild birds on Swan Lake consume up to a quarter of a ton of wheat . |
| 18 | Our audiences put up with a lot , but they will not accept total inadequacies for every performance . |
| 19 | After a time , all knew that the concourse was not going to turn sour or break up in a fight . |
| 20 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 21 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 22 | Hold up for a count of 10 . |
| 23 | Hold up for a count of 10 , relax and repeat . |
| 24 | " I read up about a lot of them , Kate . |
| 25 | The volunteer may help the young person with job applications or other form-filling , go to a football match or the cinema with them or just meet up for a chat . |
| 26 | Later they meet up with a couple of girls whose telephone numbers Michael finds in his pocket , and as a crazy night out they all have dinner at the Ritz . |
| 27 | Twice a week I meet up with a group of other young mothers for a baby afternoon and — ’ |
| 28 | The two Britishers , Cyril ( McKern ) and Amos ( Alec Guinness ) are making a pilgrimage to the battlefields that scarred their lives , and meet up with a group of Americans : D-Day veteran Waldo ( John Randolph ) , his daughter Beverley ( Geraldine Chaplin ) and an enigmatic widow Lisa ( Lauren Bacall ) . |
| 29 | Having just been reading a bright-red leaflet we glance up to a plain , white wall — at which instant we see a green patch . |
| 30 | But you c My impression is that you still finish up with a contradiction if you use terminology like in the Greater York area when there is and stick to the existing definition of that area . |