Example sentences of "that [vb base] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet .
2 It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin .
3 The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land .
4 ‘ There do your kind fly , Slorne , soaring on the winds that rise up from the hot land , circling over their sites as they seek their prey of mammal and carrion , or chase a black-winged kite from off their food … ’
5 When the leader , a young man in his early twenties , saw that his Sturmabteilungen were in place , he walked towards the steps that lead up to the grand entrance .
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