Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the words of Luther 's great disciple Melanchthon , it was ‘ a Parisian sophist , a blind Scot ’ , the Catholic Robert Wauchope , who drew up the Tridentine decree on justification , and it was Melanchthon 's Scottish friends Alexander Alesius and John McAlpine who , as professors of theology , spread the Protestant gospel at Frankfurt and Copenhagen . |
| 2 | He snatched up the green telephone on his desk and punched out an internal number . |
| 3 | But as she lapped up the five-star treatment on the champagne Concorde flight , angry pensioners were facing a bleak future . |
| 4 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 5 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 6 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 7 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 8 | I must congratulate Michael Calvin on his article ( Daily Telegraph , March 31 ) in which he highlighted my son being told to cover up the Olympic Rings on his Great Britain uniform , which he otherwise wore so proudly . |
| 9 | The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings . |
| 10 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 11 | Hereford and Worcester Community Council helped draw up the damning report on village amenities . |
| 12 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 13 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 14 | Keep up the good work on a splendid magazine . |
| 15 | Keep up the good work on a super magazine ! |
| 16 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 17 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 18 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 19 | She therefore eased her thin shanks into these all too revealing pants , put a pair of gilt oriental sandals on her feet and hastily touched up the mauve polish on her toenails and fingernails . |
| 20 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 21 | ‘ Have ye not , ’ the young man 's voice was noncommittal as he straightened his back and wound up the spare netting on a wooden stake . |
| 22 | After some agonizing over whether they were confident enough to do their respective jobs , ex-Big Flame member Tony Hodgson became Production Manager and Liz Cooper gave up her job as Circulation Manager of the New Statesman to take up the same position on the new paper . |
| 23 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 24 | General Schwarzkopf , summing up the overall result on 27 February , described the rout of the Iraqi army as having been achieved by a ‘ flanking manoeuvre , trapping thousands of its troops ’ . |
| 25 | Summing up the Japanese impact on Korea , it may be said that efficient but harsh administration was provided ; economic progress was promoted yet in a distorted way , designed to benefit the colonial master . |
| 26 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 27 | He exchanged a polite smile with the secretary after Karen had left , then picked up the only magazine on the coffee table and leafed through it , his interest not overly stimulated by a computer programming manual written in German . |
| 28 | Maud picked up the top letter on each pile . |