Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 2 | There followed a period of comparative quiet , while the water built up again behind the top step and those beneath . |
| 3 | Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something . |
| 4 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 5 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 6 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 7 | Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones . |
| 8 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 9 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 10 | Fountains how could you convey the sense of waters , swirl , surging up out of the deep or something . |
| 11 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 12 | Deuterium nuclei ( deuterons ) have a spin that will , in a magnetic field , line up either with the magnetic field or perpendicular to it . |
| 13 | But perhaps a more interesting effect — and the one that might offer scientists the first chance to test Kulsrud 's work experimentally — is the ability to suppress D-D reactions by polarising the deuterons so that all the ions line up parallel to the magnetic field . |
| 14 | ‘ I put £17 of fuel in , went to Windsor and back , used the car every day , and filled up again after the New Year . |
| 15 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 16 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 17 | These differences show up clearly with the longer-term policies associated with mortgages . |
| 18 | Guests ' bills are written up daily from the duplicate vouchers which are debited to the visitors ' tabular ledger and it follows that the balances shown on the guests ' bills must correspond with the balances in the visitors ' tabular ledger . |
| 19 | ‘ Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ’ |
| 20 | He would crop up repeatedly in the anxious preoccupation with the demoralising influence of popular amusements , the collapse of ‘ fair play ’ sportsmanship , and the allegations of excessive ‘ freedom ’ and ‘ affluence ’ that were levelled against the young . |
| 21 | The same problem will crop up again after the first conference , though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced . |
| 22 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 23 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 24 | I slithered in his wake , looking up hopelessly at the great smooth wilderness rearing above us . |
| 25 | ‘ Entirely unnecessary , although for the sake of complete understanding you might like to know that this , ’ Lacuna turned abruptly to the blond girl , who recoiled , ducking her head , and then looking up meekly at the tall woman , ‘ is called Britta . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How dare you come barging into my room without knocking ? ’ she gasped , scrambling up on to the rumpled counterpane , two hands going up to her blonde hair as she felt his gaze take a rapid inventory of her voluptuous disarray . |
| 27 | Anglo-Scottish trade came virtually to a halt , and did not begin to pick up again until the late sixteenth century . |
| 28 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 29 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |