Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 2 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 3 | In testing , a large number of sections or items which together make up the complete test . |
| 4 | Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress . |
| 5 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 6 | More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species . |
| 7 | She was also a kind of mascot of the liberal intelligentsia — had she not come up the hard way from the very bottom of the heap to stand by Miller 's side defying the anti-Communist witch-hunters who wanted to jail him ? |
| 8 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 9 | The contest to find ‘ budding ’ Percy Throwers was the brainchild of residents , who also make up the judging panel , along with executive representatives . |
| 10 | The very phrase ‘ the Ulster people ’ refers to those who originally set up the true faith in Ireland and colonized the land accordingly . |
| 11 | ‘ We just couple up the combined battery powers of the Ariadne and the Kilcharran . |
| 12 | Does no one nowadays keep up the old precaution of when in a strange pub always starting with a half ? — KEN REED , Sutton , Surrey . |
| 13 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 14 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 15 | ‘ Ave yer ever bin up the Grand ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 17 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 18 | Laying these aside quietly , they then prised up the thin lead sheathing from round the edges of the glass and gouged out the putty holding the pane in place . |
| 19 | Mother Francis had shown her how to go up the long windy path behind the convent and pick leaves and wild flowers . |
| 20 | He showed me how to fold up the ingenious mechanism of the daytime armchairs and slide them under a bed which pulled out from the wall . |
| 21 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 22 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
| 23 | It just props up the underlying immune system . ’ |
| 24 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 25 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 26 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 27 | Lyell made people aware by the 1830s of the great age of the Earth , and he also divided up the Tertiary period , using a statistical method based upon the proportions of existing species found among the fossils . |
| 28 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 29 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 30 | He indirectly set up the first try for Kenny Hooks , and his catching and powerful driving off the tail of the line out kept Collegians on the back foot . |