Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 3 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 4 | ‘ I just ca n't watch myself , ’ he said in Santander yesterday where he has joined up with the England team to watch tonight 's match against Spain . |
| 5 | You and your horsemen will be facing four times your numbers by the time the foot-army from Leven has joined up with the eleven hundred from the ships . |
| 6 | As er as you can imagine , it 's a very difficult task , nobody wants to go up in the region , it has malaria , it 's dangerous , it 's it Transportation is difficult . |
| 7 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 8 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 9 | Chart 3 indicates that , as a result of the advertising , growth in Gold 90 balances in Scottish branches initially grew much faster , although , subsequent to the advertising campaign , growth in English and Welsh branches has caught up with the help of other communications , including the Personal Customer Newsletter and posters in branches supporting some magnificent local sales efforts . |
| 10 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 11 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 12 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 13 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 14 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 15 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 16 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 17 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 18 | But Stephen Fazekas de St Groth of the Basel Institute of Immunology has come up with a different method — an automated system in which a technician collects the antibodies off an ‘ anti-immunologlobulin ’ column . |
| 19 | In West Germany , meanwhile , BASF has come up with a technical solution to the threat of a tax on blank audio tape . |
| 20 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 21 | ROBERT FRANKLIN of Los Gatos , California , has come up with a neat way of ensuring that electric gadgets such as irons and hair curlers turn themselves off when left unattended . |
| 22 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 23 | A MONTREAL donor has come up with a smoking cud that he claims is better than 85 per cent effective . |
| 24 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 25 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 26 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 27 | No detergent is wasted either because Siemens has come up with a specially designed Ecovalve . |
| 28 | Spear & Jackson has come up with a new range of screwdrivers , colour-coded for easier identification . |
| 29 | WITH ; some World cup players retired , others assisting clubs in France and Japan and a number unable to travel , Canada has come up with a new-look squad for a four-game visit to New Zealand in late March . |
| 30 | Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar . |