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

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1 Essential for sets , you can sit back and relax with your favourite mag or catch up on the gossip with the girl under the next dryer !
2 We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River .
3 If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind .
4 This card may be placed next to the model or face up at the table edge to indicate that it is in play .
5 So , the perfectionist might be instructed to do something wrong at work , or deliberately blemish their appearance , or turn up to the group five minutes late .
6 Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) .
7 They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly .
8 It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped .
9 Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn .
10 Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ?
11 A bout of exercise of any kind is a wonderful outlet for the frustrations that build up during the day and it helps to release tension and enable us to relax .
12 Experience of food poisoning outbreaks has shown that build up within the span of one working day of the type of bacteria that will cause major explosive outbreaks rarely occurs where hygiene practices are satisfactory .
13 There are a series of peaks that show up in the detector like a range of mountains as there are lots of gamma rays at different energies coming from the many naturally radioactive materials that are all around and within us .
14 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 .
15 Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War .
16 Well , I mean , this is important to read this than turn up at the garage .
17 Those cells that end up on the inside become inner cell mass and those that end up on the outside , the trophoblast .
18 Those cells that end up on the inside become inner cell mass and those that end up on the outside , the trophoblast .
19 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 .
20 ( I suspect it 's his way of getting some vegetables down me considering the number of soft , plump leaves that end up in the bottom of my cup when the pot gets to be half full of the things .
21 Uncle Buck is the obvious example , but the same can be said about brat pack action movies like Young Guns , family comedies like Parenthood , even blockbuster action like The Abyss double recommended as a trailer because you do n't have to put up with those awful cute aliens that turn up at the end of the film .
22 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
23 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
24 TIES emblazoned with Santas and Rudolphs with red noses that light up at the touch of a button and seductive pictures of Marilyn Monroe are all part of Tie Rack 's campaign strategy for Christmas .
25 He asked , with relish , ‘ Ever seen mushrooms that light up in the dark ?
26 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 .
27 And then any extra specials that come up in the meantime , they would send out send out a wee typewritten sheet you see .
28 ‘ 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 … ’
29 Mr Pavlychko , a poet turned politician , knows enough of both trades to leave that answer up in the air .
30 It is difficult even to name them , for I sense that they are urges and longings that spring up from the deep , like streams of water gathering in the darkness below ground before they emerge through the rock into the light of day .
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