Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up the [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 In early September north European government officials meeting in Ronneby , Sweden , agreed to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Baltic and to halve the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 .
2 Despite the media army , it is becoming more and more difficult for the Allies to cover up the ancient and ruthless strategy of global domination and exploitation underlying their actions .
3 Events in the race itself summon up less pious images , for this running of the world 's greatest Classic saw a brawling match up the straight and a sensational disqualification which to many smelled of more than one personal vendetta .
4 The additions bump up the mandatory and discretionary access controls , give each piece of data held a security level label and implement the sophisticated system auditing capabilities that the certification requires .
5 The additions bump up the mandatory and discretionary access controls , give each piece of data held a security level label and implement the sophisticated system auditing capabilities that the certification requires .
6 Whatever expectations his parents had of him , Valentin grew up the best-balanced and the least ambitious of their children .
7 I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits .
8 When you and I were in our slit trenches sheltering from the shit that 's flying about , these two here were running around the orchard picking up the dead and wounded . ’
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