Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot .
2 The advantage of this technique is that , in subsequent processing , the whole prime data track can be handled sequentially by the software , and overflow records are picked up only when the prime track has been processed .
3 The reformers argued that since departments built up their philosophies over a period of time and since new measures took a considerable period to negotiate , these processes should be opened up so that the informed public could make its reactions clear while principles were still being settled .
4 And when the woman in the top bunk threw up again and the sour vomit splashed down on her and soaked her skirt , it was the last straw .
5 There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable .
6 When this proves to be impossible , the edge of the previous day 's work should be roughed up so that the new mix will key with it .
7 The meeting broke up quickly as the other men in the room rose from wherever they had found to sit , some on chairs but most cross-legged on the floor , picked up weapons and equipment , and began to file out .
8 They have also gone up faster than the national figures .
9 Consequently , when these innovative ideas were taken up nationally and the Residential Precinct Regulation was adopted in the traffic legislation of the Netherlands in September 1976 , great care was taken to set down minimum design requirements and special rules for conduct within a Woonerf .
10 The girls were wired up so that the current lit up their cockades and enabled their swords to give off sparks as they fenced .
11 to leave if if the voluntary severance comes up again and the whole purpose of the exercise is to look to our future .
12 The price used as the original price had been bumped up so that the 20 per cent off claim could be made .
13 I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume .
14 With most agents in agreement that the top end of the market has held up better than the bottom end , this widening differential between the values of prime and mass-market housing is likely to increase .
15 She got back in the bed wet through , and sat up brazenly as the young girl brought the tray in .
  Next page