Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pale autumnal sun played over Etive as I gazed up the beckoning folds of Spartan Slab with another partner , watching the leisurely antics of an American climber and his female ropemate on this classic VS . |
| 2 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 3 | Come and see the sorcerer 's kitchen where I brew up the grotesque potions that make me a legend here . ’ |
| 4 | Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases . |
| 5 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 6 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 7 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 8 | Thus at my ease , I ate my tea and then I washed up the dirty crocks . |
| 9 | Though delighting to read in Blackwood 's of the exploits of imperial heroes , the educated British public showed little personal inclination for service in the assorted white men 's graves which made up the tropical dependencies . |
| 10 | A further aspect of the new system , which has yet to be fully exploited by centres , is that the Higher National Units which make up the new courses can be taken individually by candidates , rather than in complete courses . |
| 11 | More important , the big volcanoes which make up the Hawaiian Islands all seem at first sight to have central vents — they are mountains thousands of metres high , with craters right at the top . |
| 12 | One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores . |
| 13 | He was , he said , threatened with murder ; and when he travelled round his diocese he was preceded by a troop of horse which broke up the illegal meetings . |
| 14 | Instead of seeking to have what little impact they can , they come to feel completely surrounded by impasses which seal up the potential gaps between the proliferating demands . |
| 15 | German nationalism was very largely a search for a lost , elusive , mythical unity with which to bind up the German states in a re-animated , re-invented version of German history . |
| 16 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 17 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 18 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 19 | Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . |
| 20 | It is the wealth creators , he said , who open up the great possibilities for improvement in our society . |
| 21 | If you look up the relevant books you will find that eqn ( 3.56 ) may be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals . |
| 22 | You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled … |
| 23 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |
| 24 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 25 | Gabrielle 's relationship with Baldwin blossomed and they had two children together , Sam and Harry , but later the couple parted and she brought up the two boys . |
| 26 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 27 | Was Tory chairman who cocked up the 1989 Euro-elections . |
| 28 | Lady Grubb knew a great deal about antiques and owned some beautiful pieces , but she topped up the genuine furnishings with reproduction Jacobean coffee tables and plastic cruets . |
| 29 | You write up the offered words , correctly , without asking how they are spelled . |
| 30 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |