Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 2 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 3 | And I grew up respectful of the strength of her inner soul , superior in my school learning but knowing here was something beyond knowledge . |
| 4 | ‘ I sat up all through the flight putting it together . |
| 5 | I picked up one of the cloths and helped her . |
| 6 | I picked up one of the old models for a good price , but the new style is still reasonable . |
| 7 | Mines would be grouped into seven holding companies to force profitable pits to support loss-makers , which made up two-thirds of the 63 mines . |
| 8 | The various elements or component activities which make up each of the four Marketing Mix categories are interdependent . |
| 9 | Prices vary as follows on the items shown — Elkhorn Coral £19.99 ; Lettuce Coral £18.20 ; Flower Coral £31.99 ; Cup Coral large £9.25 ; Cup Coral small £5.60 ; and Blue Tube Sponge £13.36 ( which make up one of the special deals ) and a giant Elkhorn Coral which retails at £41.50 . |
| 10 | But it is Mansell 's unexpected prowess on the oval circuits , which make up six of the 16 races in the Indycar championship , which has been most impressive . |
| 11 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 12 | Another way is to give five points to the team which finishes first and ten to the team which fills up more of the bottle in a single round . |
| 13 | Their favoured nightspot is LIS 'S , a neon-lit discotheque throbbing with the latest music which takes up half of the 45,000-seater Olympiysky indoor soccer stadium . |
| 14 | Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in his report on July 3 gave a strong defence of perestroika in foreign policy which took up many of the themes featured in Gorbachev 's address . |
| 15 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 16 | And , and probably you pick up some of the language used to describe this , you know . |
| 17 | It is in short the question of the economic status and opportunities of those who make up seven-eighths of the community , not of any submerged residuum … |
| 18 | The co-leaders receive excellent support from trumpeter Terell Stafford , pianist Ed Simon and bass player Essiet Essiet , who make up one of the most consistently brilliant — but still under-valued — bands on the jazz scene . |
| 19 | Ever since a military coup overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 , the indigenous Mayan people , who make up two-thirds of the population of eight million , have suffered widespread , brutal and systematic oppression at the hands of a Spanish speaking minority . |
| 20 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 21 | ‘ You ride up front in the third . |
| 22 | Do you lay up short of the stream , which is around 110 yards shy of the green ? |
| 23 | any entertainment sort of thing or , or like you ring up best on the thing |
| 24 | If you exercise more , you use up more of the energy from your food , so reducing your chances of putting on any additional weight . |
| 25 | They will attack anyone who picks up one of the instruments . |
| 26 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 27 | 60 year old Connie Richards , who grew up near to the U S depot where Miller was based clearly remembers meeting an American photographer at a Glen Miller dance . |
| 28 | She picked up one of the wire baskets that were stacked outside the supermarket and gave him a selfconscious , defiant stare . |
| 29 | Then , at random almost , she picked up one of the other cuttings , which showed Harriet Shakespeare 's plain , squashed face looking white and distraught and pitiful as she leaned against a friend 's arm . |
| 30 | Annoyed , she picked up one of the cans — and dropped it again . |