Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stay in this position for some time , then slowly sit up through a curved spine — a great way to relax ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And you can work locally pick up jobs locally . |
| 6 | Right eat up some of this salad I 'm only on some |
| 7 | Stand with the feet together and slowly raise up on tiptoes , then lower the heels down again . |
| 8 | Cool , remove pastry and turn right side up . |
| 9 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 10 | Some redistribution had occurred between 1938 and 1949 , but if one ignores the top 1 per cent of income earners , there had been little change up to 1979 . |
| 11 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 12 | This process of refinement within and across studies will , it is argued , slowly build up our confidence that the indicators which work are measuring something , some phenomenon , that our concepts point to . |
| 13 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 14 | Companies such as Hanson are often discussed as if they were conglomerates that successfully build up ‘ unrelated ’ clusters of businesses . |
| 15 | But then , despite the gloss given by the court flatterers , the unspoken tensions in the palace eventually build up into a civil war which topples the old order . |
| 16 | They say the way to a man 's heart is through his stomach , so pick up an elegant Gentleman 's Gift Tray from Waitrose at £13.50 . |
| 17 | Other researchers think it is more likely that the fish remember the chemical composition of their home stream , and so pick up its scent in the open ocean . |
| 18 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 19 | He put the phone down with the usual feeling of life at present , that he could strike forward forever and only land up farther behind . |
| 20 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 21 | Little tarts with too much make up and too much to say for themselves . |
| 22 | wearing too much make up . |
| 23 | Do n't put too much make up on or else it 'll look dead false ! |
| 24 | The remainder comes mostly from the countries around the Mediterranean , but what the original almond growers lack in quantity they apparently make up for in quality . |
| 25 | Irenius begins his account with an expression of anxiety which reveals a number of linked issues which constantly crop up in Spenser 's writing : the establishment and maintenance of true religion and civilisation within a pattern of human development predetermined by the divine . |
| 26 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 27 | But the true figure is much higher , with one London health authority estimating that its hospitals alone lose up to £1 million a year . |
| 28 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 29 | The rapid rise in the price of oil in the 1970s , for example , contributed to inflation in many countries around the world — oil price rises not only push up petrol prices , of course , but also affect the cost of all transport services and virtually all manufacturing and service industries . |
| 30 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |