Example sentences of "and [vb base] up [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 As the summer came I could take the pram along the Hastings promenade , and meet up with an old form mate of mine from school days .
2 There are a variety of different ways in which an individual may access the hospital system and end up as an in-patient .
3 The City will bang a few numbers into its computers , mutter something about sector relative p/e ratios and come up with an answer : yes or no .
4 The consequence is that Broad Lane 's two largest personalities have banged their heads together and come up with an undisclosed compromise in an effort to prevent Wivenhoe 's first relegation in 30 years of undiluted success .
5 ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’
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