Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 2 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 3 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 4 | Apart from a small stain on the edge this came up in almost the bright and shiny condition that it appears in the illustration . |
| 5 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 6 | The Company is empowered under its articles of Association to borrow up to twice the aggregate amount of the share capital and reserves of the Company and its subsidiaries as indicated by the latest audited accounts , subject to certain adjustments . |
| 7 | From the data on cropping it was seen that grass made up by far the greatest proportion of arable hectares . |
| 8 | Frigging around instead of facing up to where the bloody wife had gone and putting a stop to it at once . |
| 9 | Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl . |
| 10 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 11 | They do not stand up to even the briefest of scrutinies . |
| 12 | Restating it , so , the max value of that product is N minus one Now , if you wan na know what the maximum value and negat if the score 's are negatively correlated rather than positive , you end up with exactly the same expression , N minus one , but lo and behold it 's negative . |
| 13 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 14 | The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline . |
| 15 | This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost . |
| 16 | a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else . |