Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 2 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 3 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 4 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 5 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 6 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 7 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 8 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 9 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 10 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 11 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 12 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 13 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 14 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 15 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 16 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 17 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 18 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 19 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 20 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 21 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 22 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 23 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 24 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 25 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 26 | A second night jar started up at a few yards distant . |
| 27 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 28 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 29 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 30 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |