Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 2 | What often starts as a trickle finishes up as a torrent of new ideas . |
| 3 | This adds up to a threat to the source of Japan 's post-war strength . |
| 4 | But to be forever in child-bed , surrounded by countless sons and daughters , many of them ill ; to run a self-supporting household with endless heavy domestic chores ; to be victim to a view that a woman 's one means of self-fulfilment must be through the home — all that adds up to a state of affairs not to be envied . |
| 5 | ‘ This kind of weight reduction ca n't be met by plastic 's rivals — and it all adds up to a reduction in waste at the beginning of the cycle , which is where the environmental action should start ! ’ |
| 6 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 7 | It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 8 | Together with some unique little touches — a new menu of European and Japanese dishes , newly designed china , and real glassware — it all adds up to a world of difference . |
| 9 | It all adds up to a lot of loyalty , from staff and customers . |
| 10 | This adds up to a loss of £9.57 . |
| 11 | It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot . |
| 12 | Mel toddles up to a driver of a white Fiesta and gets out his wiper . |
| 13 | The lagoon between the bar and the land is colonised by various types of marsh vegetation and slowly fills up with a mixture of sediment and decaying organic matter ( Fig. 8.18C ) . |
| 14 | First , the original client shows up on a plane of existence to which she would never normally have access . |
| 15 | Although , ’ I point out with a wicked twinkle , which shows up as a flash of prismatic light on the edges of the glass , ‘ Rainbow has — recently — been entertaining the flicker of a wild fantasy about returning to religion . |
| 16 | If so " it shows up as a difference in the wave forms obtained from one or more of the left and right hemisphere leads . |
| 17 | Stress is always responsible for neuro eczema , which shows up as a patch of inflammation in the nape of the neck at the top of the spine . |
| 18 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 19 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 20 | It becomes a very resourceful swineherd — multiplies its pigs on forest acorns — and ends up with a lot of triumphant slaughter and roast pork and crackling . |
| 21 | Tiphook ends up with a lot of goodwill on the balance sheet , which can be a risky position to be in , but Montague is skilled at that sort of move . ’ |
| 22 | And the movie is the story of their friendship and Donald Woods ' conversion , in a way , to the erm cause that erm called black consciousness which Steve Beeko erm promoted and so on , and it ends up with a sort of James Bond escape from South Africa in a way , in that Donald and his wife and his five children , harassed and threatened by the erm South African Government , finally escape . |
| 23 | It usually ends up like a cross between The Sun 's ‘ Things You Never Knew ’ column and The Times Literary Review . |
| 24 | The first speech leads up to a toast to bride and groom , the most important people of the day . |
| 25 | Into this ordinariness , out of the muddy water , rise the spectres the murdered boys , led by Grimes 's father ; and Crabbe , hostile to his own father , leads up to a death-bed of insanity and terror . |
| 26 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 27 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 28 | He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper . |
| 29 | This goes up to a resolution of 1,024 by 768 in non-interlaced mode , at a flicker-free 72Hz vertical scan rate . |
| 30 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |