Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 2 | Helen chose a small-patterned carpet that stands up to the combined wear and tear of two dogs , two cats and three children . |
| 3 | The plain-clothed cockney sidles up to the moustached man , grinning . |
| 4 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 5 | The top end finishes up with the three-over-two layout of Gotoh black chrome machines . |
| 6 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 7 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 8 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 9 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 10 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 11 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 12 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 13 | Remember , a loss of between 2 and 4 lb per month adds up to a 24–48 lb drop in a year , 48–96 lb over two years . |
| 14 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 15 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 16 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 17 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 18 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 19 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 20 | It all adds up to a better deal , for your managers , your training budget and for effective corporate management development . |
| 21 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 22 | Our friendly bar with its extensive range of beers , real ales and cocktails , combined with the latest music , dancing and entertainment , adds up to a memorable evening in a convivial atmosphere . |
| 23 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 24 | Cos each group adds up to a dotted quaver . |
| 25 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 26 | It all adds up to a pleasant ‘ lived in ’ atmosphere . |
| 27 | The review model came with a colour SuperVGA display , a low-radiation CTX monitor , plus a 1Mb Trident VGA card which all adds up to a fine non-dedicated server . |
| 28 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 29 | Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge ! |
| 30 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |