Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture plane is further emphasized by the complete lack of aerial perspective ( the far houses are , if anything , darker and stronger in value than the foreground house ) , and by the fact that occasionally contours are broken and forms opened up into each other . |
| 2 | With XPG4 , as part of its sworn intent to become more user-oriented , X/Open will be assembling various specific user packages and profiles made up of combinations of the existing and new XPG components . |
| 3 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 4 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 5 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 6 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 7 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 8 | Contemporary concerns with the dangers posed to the rights of individuals by incorrect information are reflected in the laws and institutions set up on national levels to protect individuals against incorrect data and the implications that might arise from any errors . |
| 9 | A Commission of Inquiry into Peat and Peatlands set up by Plantlife , a plant conservation trust , has submitted its report to the House of Lords . |
| 10 | In these older towns , too , the large houses of the middle class were divided into tenements to house the swarming population , and factories and warehouses went up on their gardens and orchards . |
| 11 | She began walking ahead quickly , and Piers kept up with her with long , easy strides . |
| 12 | Members and supporters brought up in the pre-1968 glory days are mostly content to support the White Rose despite their lack of success . |
| 13 | Yes , the year 's hottest dance track was created in Switzerland — land of alarm clocks , snow-capped peaks and junkies shooting up in public parks . |
| 14 | The designer makes sure that there is only one exit at the front and that coaches and cars sweep up to it , making it unattractive to cross . |
| 15 | Cheerful crashes and bangs floated up from Doris 's kitchen as I went back upstairs , and I could hear outbursts of raucous male laughter and pinch-induced shrieks . |
| 16 | In some of the more intensively managed ‘ confinement ’ operations , animals are crowded in pens and cages stacked up like so many shipping crates … . |
| 17 | Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text . |
| 18 | The battle between graziers and agriculturists continued up to modern times , but in less dramatic wrangles between village councils , which preferred cultivators , and the larger owners who favoured the more reliable rents of the cattle and sheep men . |
| 19 | Back in the days of bare-knuckle bouts the referee scratched a line in the dirt and fighters shaped up to each other by ‘ toeing ’ this line . |
| 20 | And butchers next door where you know where shoe shop is on street , well grocers were there on that corner and th when we come here there were hams and bacons hung up outside all night . |
| 21 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 22 | The clouds were parting and the moon showed dimly at first when the 12-pounder gun 's crew of cooks and stewards closed up aboard the destroyer . |
| 23 | Augustine must smash the idols , but the temples themselves should be sprinkled with holy water and altars set up in them in which relics are to be enclosed … |
| 24 | The expensive new shops , restaurants , casinos and nightclubs opening up in the status-conscious post-Soviet capital are often given Western names , which represent luxury to the city 's chic new bourgeoisie. — Reuter |
| 25 | The sixty-four drawings and nineteen bozzetti and models lead up to the sculptures themselves forty-seven in all in both first and second versions . |
| 26 | One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons . |
| 27 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 28 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 29 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 30 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |