Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 2 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 3 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 4 | But however mixed up the plot may be , there 's no doubting the strength of the music : |
| 5 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 6 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 7 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 8 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 9 | I just wish they had n't boarded up the windows . |
| 10 | Disillusioned with the cottage and its problems , he had boarded up the windows and returned to Toronto , meaning eventually to come back and make a final decision about his ill-advised purchase . |
| 11 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 12 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 13 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 14 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 15 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 16 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 17 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 18 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 19 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 20 | a terrible ‘ Ow ’ — or totally good — a beautiful ‘ Mm ’ — and when distress is relieved it may well be as if they themselves have conjured up the goodness . |
| 21 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 22 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 23 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 24 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 25 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 26 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 27 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 28 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 29 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 30 | I took a trip into Albany an ’ looked up the architect 's plans of the house an' its estate . |