Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 2 | At the time of a prisoner amnesty in Albania in November 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] Western observers had estimated that political prisoners alone numbered up to 5,000 . |
| 3 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 5 | If the audience did n't yell , ’ Awlright ! ’ when the other kids finally stand up to him , then the part did n't serve its purpose in the movie . ’ |
| 6 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 7 | ‘ Those that do have relationships usually end up with strong and critical women , a reflection of their regimented life as an adolescent . |
| 8 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 9 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 11 | Presently a governor of two Suffolk schools , the task is increasingly time consuming , responsible , unpaid and costly in terms of petrol consumed ( no travel expenses paid ) , but still rewarding in terms of relationships within the schools carefully built up over the years . |
| 12 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 13 | Now I have never ‘ done ’ advertising , on the simple , self-interested principle that if television viewers knew I could be paid to recommend biscuits , however vicariously , they might reasonably conclude that the Conservative , Labour or Liberal Democrat parties also come up with occasional help with my household expenses . |
| 14 | ‘ Lots of the smaller kids really look up to you . |
| 15 | Following the trend of many new industries , firms that make computers often spring up near each other . |
| 16 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 17 | From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores . |
| 18 | A more mundane application is to the reduction of interfering mains-frequency signals accidentally picked up in circuits designed to operate at even lower frequency , for example in direct-current circuits . |
| 19 | He explored the variables systematically to come up with a solution . |
| 20 | This chapter has portrayed the implementation process as a complex one , in many respects inextricably bound up with the policy-making process . |
| 21 | Long-distance calls normally cost up to 79p for 10 minutes . |
| 22 | Their activities thus linked up with more general efforts to protect the rural environment . |
| 23 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 24 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 25 | The campaign showed few issues and , with the Conservatives overwhelmingly backed up in the popular press , was wholly one-sided . |
| 26 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 27 | The four assassins finally caught up with Tyrion and his charge , coming upon their camp by night . |
| 28 | Bath also had a resident gem-cutter , whose collection of 34 unmounted intaglios somehow ended up in the main drain carrying the overflow from the reservoir housing the hot spring . |
| 29 | If he just suddenly hits me without warning , thought Bob , I shall almost certainly go straight over backwards with my feet still caught up in the bar-stool , and split my skull open on the floor . |
| 30 | Zen got out , jumped over the ditch running alongside the track and began to work his way along the edge of the field towards the back of the concrete structure , his shoes rapidly clogging up with mud . |