Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 2 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 3 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 4 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 5 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |