Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.

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1 He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them .
2 ‘ Scurrying round to pick up the few crumbs that fall from the table ? ’
3 It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines .
4 To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved .
5 I shall take up the individual cases that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention and give as detailed an answer on them as possible .
6 As suggested elsewhere , one of the problems with selection is giving up the attractive paths that are not being chosen .
7 He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries .
8 Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’
9 Erm Other areas in which I 've lived in I lived in the in an area in Hull , where the whole of this inner city area was revitalized simply by giving things new front doors and new gutters and drainage and tidying up the small gardens that there were , and providing things such as railings .
10 Alcohol does not mimic a neurotransmitter , but at least some of its effects come from messing up the same synapses that heroin works on .
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