Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 2 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 3 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 4 | To sum up the hybrid theory that has emerged : it is that non-reinforced pre-exposure to a stimulus will allow the formation of potentially interfering associations and bring about a loss of associability . |
| 5 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 6 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |
| 7 | Anabelle watched from under the gate while the boy snatched up the huge bowl and dashed into the house . |
| 8 | As silence fell , he snatched up the green telephone and stabbed out the number of the Internal Security department . |
| 9 | He made a dash for the table , snatched up the boiled egg and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 10 | Then , in the very same breath , she snatched up the toppled coffee-cup and flung the lukewarm contents in his face . |
| 11 | Julie snatched up the heavy skillet and swung it with all her strength . |
| 12 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 13 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 14 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 15 | And if you were an important enough visitor , you were allowed to come up the privy stair and straight into the great chamber . |
| 16 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 17 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 18 | For toning up the whole body and increasing your stamina , swimming and running are both excellent . |
| 19 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |
| 20 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 21 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 22 | Fraser gave ‘ inspiration and encouragement ’ by his talks in chapel , but it was really the Vice-Principal , Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , who stirred up the young student and aroused his first thoughts about nationalism ; though Aggrey firmly believed in partnership between White and Black . |
| 23 | Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly . |
| 24 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 25 | I woke up the other morning and I thought , once you married for company , and now you marry the company . |
| 26 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 27 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 28 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 29 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 30 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |