Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 2 | She was out with a group of girls , you were with your friends , and you all had a happy evening together and ended up at a disco . |
| 3 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 4 | The two sets of waves then cancel each other out , rather than adding up to a stronger wave as one might expect ( Fig.4.1 ) . |
| 5 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 6 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 7 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 8 | Obsidian is erupted quietly as lava , forming thick , sluggish flows , while pumice is blasted out rapidly and blown up into a consistency something like expanded polystyrene , with a delicate cellular structure that results from the expansion of large volumes of gas within the magma . |
| 9 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 10 | A collegial model looked both more scriptural and more ecumenical — as well as being more suited to a post-monarchical world — even if bolstered up by a not-too-sound and rather fundamentalist interpretation of a selection of New Testament and patristic texts . |
| 11 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 12 | Selkirk — also on six points but having played one game more than both GH-K and Stirling County — snatched two points at Riverside Park a fortnight ago and followed up with a Border League success against Kelso last Friday in which they scored four glorious tries and were further heartened by the return from serious injury of Rodney Pow and Graham Marshall . |
| 13 | It was a narrow squeak for Errol , for had Newry lost to Queen 's a fortnight ago and ended up in a relegation decider against the students , the ban would have come into immediate effect . |
| 14 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |