Example sentences of "[vb base] up [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 2 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 3 | People will help themselves and save you a lot of work , as will buying paper plates for everyone to use and making the buffet a finger buffet with lots of little bits and pieces of food , and nothing that has to be served onto a plate with a spoon or cut up with a knife and fork . |
| 4 | Ye ken , ye walk up tae a door and it opens of its ain accord . |
| 5 | But you c My impression is that you still finish up with a contradiction if you use terminology like in the Greater York area when there is and stick to the existing definition of that area . |
| 6 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |
| 7 | In his early essays on the subject , Shklovsky defines it in a very wide range of terms which , broadly speaking , add up to a view that art refreshes our sense of life and experience . |
| 8 | Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter |
| 9 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 11 | I get up after a bit and stick the stuff back in my pockets and start walking the way I came in . |
| 12 | ‘ We sleep with the windows tight shut and wake up to a room that is absolutely fresh , ’ says Edward . |
| 13 | I wake up of a morning and wonder what 's happened . |
| 14 | At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour . |
| 15 | Continue up to a roundabout and Hawthorn Close is the cul-de-sac on the right hand side . |
| 16 | did it and the chest wig comes off , you imagine with a penis , you go up with a penis and you , oh what 's that she says , what 's that ? |
| 17 | You go up on a step and then you 've got another pond . |
| 18 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 19 | So you end up with a particle if you look at that it 's particles about two or three mills square . |
| 20 | These same eggs end up at a supermarket as fresh free range ! |
| 21 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 22 | and then he said something about do us cart one and a half cartwheels and end up in a crab or something , and she come flying across the room at me and I felt this foot go shwoo |
| 23 | The Tanguts were northern enemies of the Han , and T'sao , the Han Chief of Staff , had pardoned a condemned man on the understanding that he would swallow a ball of wax , dress up as a monk and enter the kingdom of the Tanguts . |
| 24 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 25 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 26 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 27 | Foul up in a chimney and you 'll batter yourself on the walls . |
| 28 | follow up with a punch or … |
| 29 | Unless the horse is very sick or the swelling is severely affecting eating or breathing , it is sometimes better to delay antibiotics until the abscesses come up to a head and burst . |
| 30 | one day when I said something he come up with a name but it did n't register |