Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 2 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 3 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 4 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |
| 5 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
| 6 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 9 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 10 | The issue has climbed up the political agenda . |
| 11 | But a come for an eventual second runway has whipped up the inevitable storm of controversy among local residents . |
| 12 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 13 | Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex . |
| 14 | Terry has portioned up the mighty delta and has wisely opted to do the undersides during the winter ! |
| 15 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 16 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 17 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 18 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 19 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 20 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 21 | Having propped up the Ottoman empire for the latter part of the nineteenth century , Britain and France now set about dismantling it . |
| 22 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
| 23 | Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision . |
| 24 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 25 | I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples . |
| 26 | For the first time in warfare , motorized trucks were the sole means of transport , for to have used horses would have choked up the whole movement of supplies . |
| 27 | ‘ These would have blown up the entire gold and diamond market , ’ the bomb squad chief , Nandkumar Chowgule , told reporters after the area had been cleared . |
| 28 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 29 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 30 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |