Example sentences of "up [prep] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most readers of this book aged over 30 will have been taught at school that the atom is made up of little billiard balls : in the centre there is the nucleus , made of biggish billiard balls called protons and neutrons ; around the nucleus travel very small billiard balls called electrons . |
| 2 | Okay , no it 's , I 'm just going by the one at school and it , because it 's all made up of little dots you |
| 3 | But all the evil in the world 's made up of little drops . |
| 4 | They spread out from the Thing like a tide ; panels lit up like little skies full of stars , big lights in the ceiling flickered on , there was a distant banging and fizzing as electricity was woken up , and the air began to smell of thunderstorms . |
| 5 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 6 | No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate . |
| 7 | You men are so conformist in love , so provincial in imagination ; that is why we have to flatter you , to prop you up with little lies . |
| 8 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 9 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 10 | Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits . |
| 11 | So you have got ta cut them up into little bits ? |
| 12 | Oh no , it 's like , it 's like with chocolate as well , I cut it up into little pieces , because I ca n't eat it all at once . |
| 13 | It 's pleasanter than chopping him up in little pieces . |
| 14 | In some places the water was deep , in others it was silted up in little , narrow islands of spiky , brown reeds . |
| 15 | Do you it 's all to do with I suppose whether you whether you approve of dressing dogs up in little coats and I know this one does n't have a coat or does it ? |
| 16 | But I suppose you get insight er twenty per cent was she ca n't outrun him I think this bit she gets killed and she turns up in Little England , this come on . |
| 17 | Children to dress up in little |
| 18 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 19 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |