Example sentences of "[verb] up all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could . |
| 2 | Interestingly , Rosencranz ( 1981 ) points out that conservation groups could conceivably buy up all available permits to ensure improved air quality . |
| 3 | Perhaps Gav could buy up all the tickets for the Leeds faithful ? — As long as he 's got a good limit on the old credit card : - ) ) ) |
| 4 | Even more usefully , from a film-maker 's point of view , untimely celebrity death precludes the risk of libel , thus opening up all sorts of opportunities for dramatic license . |
| 5 | Once the security of the industry was assured there was every incentive for the comedians to experiment , for comedy relied on movement , gesture , and illusion whilst photography and editing were now opening up all kinds of new possibilities . |
| 6 | Environmentalists also fear that the National Institute of Forestry and Natural Resources ( INFEAN ) is controlled by those who favour opening up all of Ecuador 's national parks to organised mining . |
| 7 | In a fit of madness I started tearing up all the ad records . ’ |
| 8 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 9 | Progressive rock was OVER-CONCEPTUAL made risible attempts to sum up all the riddles of existence on a single ( or triple ) LP , extended these pompous didactic ambitions on to the stage with all manner of theatrical set pieces . |
| 10 | This great work , appearing over a quarter of a century , was intended to sum up all available knowledge . |
| 11 | To sum up all of the above in one phrase — cyclic controls speed , throttle controls height . |
| 12 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 13 | And he scrapes up all the soil , you see this , well Lindsay has n't got any soil , she 's just got grass , so obviously it go , comes round ! |
| 14 | ‘ When you grow up all this practice will come in useful . ’ |
| 15 | Then he took a pencil and paper and started to tot up all the monies he presently held against the expenses he had . |
| 16 | I 'll have to stand up all day Friday |
| 17 | At the end of the … or … you will need to total up all the amounts spent during that period . |
| 18 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 19 | I give them a hot mash too , as well as letting them scratch about here , we cook up all the scraps in the kitchen . |
| 20 | The also the big rotary blades on 'em are throwing all the grass over the pavement and all over the road and eventually finishes up all down the drains . |
| 21 | Someone had already picked up all the spilled groceries with the exception of a crushed box of crackers . |
| 22 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 23 | In effect , country has picked up all the old paraphernalia of the pop world : slick videos , stage shows , merchandising , fanzines and so on . |
| 24 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 25 | erm and , and the market is being badly hit as a result of this , now we 've a specialist in a certain type of business that leaves the market free for another syndicate and they 've now picked up all the juicy business |
| 26 | ‘ The plants are sometimes wrongly labelled and boxes of mixed plants have been known to come up all the same colour . ’ |
| 27 | To cash up , the assistant adds up all the contents of the till ( including gift vouchers , cheques etc ) and fills out a cashing up slip like the one below . |
| 28 | To convert the pre-1975 national insurance stamps to the new system , the DHSS adds up all the stamps paid and credited before 1975 , and divides them by 50 . |
| 29 | So we 'd wait up all night , follow the delivery van around and survive on the bread and milk we could swipe . |
| 30 | ‘ I once had a plaster on my finger , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and I was making duck pancakes because an editor and his wife were coming to dinner , and when I 'd rolled up all the pancakes I found the plaster was missing . ’ |