Example sentences of "[vb -s] up a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 5 Manx Airlines , based on the Isle of Man , starts up a Stansted to Waterford daily link . |
| 2 | It , as I said earlier , really just looks up a table of data values , numerical values , and comes up with an answer and you ca n't question it , you ca n't ask it why did you get that particular answer . |
| 3 | He holds up a stick for all to see . |
| 4 | In Beverly Hills Cop , Eddie Murphy holds up a pack of Lucky Strikes and says ‘ These cigarettes are very popular with the children ’ ; and in ‘ Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? ’ detective Eddie Valiant is offered Lucky Strike cigarettes by a teenage boy and Camel cigarettes by the cartoon character Betty Boop ( Tobacco & Youth Reporter , Spring 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Third , we do also have a rich zoo of specific objects ( rotators , gliders , blinkers , and an expanding jaw-like configuration of C cells that eats up a universe of D , leaving only structured strings of D ( ’ eaters ' ) ) reminiscent of , but different from , those in Conway 's Life . |
| 6 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 7 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 8 | Presenting a very sanitized view of Pitt 's career , the film ends up a hagiography of Churchill . |
| 9 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 10 | It conjures up a vision of a large , appetizing meal , around which the whole family gathers , to share food and conversation in an especially leisurely way . |
| 11 | Nestle 's milk conjures up a lot of memories for me . |
| 12 | Mentioning leg ulcers often conjures up a picture of old ladies with large , offensive , discharging ulcers and nurses condemned to daily visits to change unpleasant dressings . |
| 13 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 14 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
| 15 | The White Dwarf pulls material away from its companion , and builds up a shell around itself ; when enough hydrogen has accumulated there is a violent though short-lived outburst . |
| 16 | It is followed by a sentence of seven verbal phrases dependent on one main verb " is " which builds up a sense of being actively extended " lufand — thynkand — desirand — anedande — syngand — byrnand " yet also paradoxically " restand " . |
| 17 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 18 | Over the summer it builds up a surplus of fat and as autumn draws on it returns to an underground burrow . |
| 19 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 20 | Many theories have been suggested and most back to the whale by the environment and any objects , such as fish , nearby ; the whale builds up a picture of its surroundings from these echoes . |
| 21 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 22 | Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps . |
| 23 | From his discussion of how such isolated clans as the Macraes , in such hollows of the world as Auchnasheal , repel all boarders , Johnson opens up a discussion of how mankind in this condition regulates itself . |
| 24 | ‘ It opens up a wealth of exciting new opportunities . |
| 25 | Everywhere you go there are paintings of the Lakes and prints of the Lakes and stories about Visits to the Lakes , people building villas here now : there 's great interest , Mr Robinson , and that always opens up a space for trade . ’ |
| 26 | A knowledge of Gaelic increases the options open to Scottish Ethnology students and opens up a range of additional sources for Highland and , to some extent , Scottish History . |
| 27 | Clicking on the down arrow to the right of the drop-down box which displays the current style opens up a list of the available styles . |
| 28 | It opens up a lot of interesting possibilities for the crack , most of which involve adopting a fake French accent . |
| 29 | This extension of the lexical representation from single words to pathways opens up a number of possibilities . |
| 30 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |