Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 2 | The government has now effectively given up trying to protect Canadian television ( much of which is publicly funded ) from new competition from US satellites . |
| 3 | It will be important for marketers to assess the experience of customers with their particular products in case it possesses some unsatisfactory performance or operating characteristic to which customers will eventually build up resistance . |
| 4 | Alright , but given time we will eventually build up that skill base again . |
| 5 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 6 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 7 | Many responsible people had eventually given up and resigned from the Branch Committee . |
| 8 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 9 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 10 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 11 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 12 | I 'm just a little shaken up . ’ |
| 13 | And you can work locally pick up jobs locally . |
| 14 | Karen instinctively got up to try and help , which made the punt wobble even more wildly . |
| 15 | Right eat up some of this salad I 'm only on some |
| 16 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 17 | It is assumed instead that , each time a logogen reaches its threshold , the value of that threshold is lowered ; and this value then slowly drifts up towards what it had been , but never quite reaches the previous level . |
| 18 | Do you remember when as a child you would stand transfixed , gazing up at the grandfather clock , with your little heart beating faster and faster as the minute hand slowly crept up to the hour when suddenly , with magical ringing chimes it burst into life . |
| 19 | But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us . |
| 20 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 22 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 23 | Stand with the feet together and slowly raise up on tiptoes , then lower the heels down again . |
| 24 | By 1973 , after the last major milking herd had been dispersed , only 70 purebred ( or relatively purebred ) Gloucesters were registered , but the breed society was re-established and , with the help of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , the breed 's numbers are slowly building up again . |
| 25 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 26 | Not rejecting them , not ceasing to love them , but slowly building up a new role and identity which no longer depends upon their presence for its satisfactory functioning . |
| 27 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 28 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 29 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |
| 30 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |