Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 2 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 3 | Which brings up the second of those two Greek imbalances — the potentially fatal one . |
| 4 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 5 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |