Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 2 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 3 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 4 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 5 | I stumble up the aisle to the immense ponderous tones of a god extolling the virtues of a restaurant in Moscow Road , Bayswater , and pass through some dingy curtains into the foyer . |
| 6 | I sketch what I want , I mix up the colours as a guide . |
| 7 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 8 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 9 | Declaring that he wishes to offer to the public ‘ the very Journal which Dr Johnson read ’ , he says he will not ‘ expand the text in any considerable degree , though I may occasionally supply a word to complete the sense as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing ’ . |
| 10 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 11 | I roll up the sleeves of my crisp white shirt , because old thought is dusty stuff . |
| 12 | See how I turn up the corners of my mouth as I tell you again , twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 13 | And tha that is one thing I 'm , I mean I 'm not I 'm not the best driver in the world , but that is one thing I do try not to do cos as you say no matter what the circumstances are , if I go up the back of somebody it is my fault . |
| 14 | I steam up the platform after him , knowing Des can block him the other side . |
| 15 | Although a dolphin 's echolocation mechanism is remarkably sensitive , it probably can not detect the thin strands of nylon which make up the mesh of oceanic drift-nets . |
| 16 | When in the fullness of immense periods of time , emerging man found that he needed a ‘ god ’ , and a logical conception of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ , he had no alternative but to accept that the countless millions of operations which make up the law of the ‘ survival of the fittest ’ , had necessarily to be designated either ‘ good ’ , if they furthered the cause , or completely disregarded if they did not . |
| 17 | It also houses a collection of old aeroplanes which make up the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Museum ; which includes among its exhibits a Lancaster bomber , two Hurricanes and four Spitfires . |
| 18 | They become the guardians of decisions , some of which accord with the criteria for units of goodness which make up the substance of the Created God , and can therefore become part of it . |
| 19 | the units which make up the system of the modern world economy are not individual enterprises , but … complexes , state capitalist trusts … |
| 20 | The homogeneous unit concept provides a valuable alternative map by which to gauge the Church 's effectiveness in relation to the ‘ mosaic ’ of peoples which make up the population of the British Isles . |
| 21 | Gennard sets out six propositions which make up the theory in its strongest version . |
| 22 | The groups of staff which make up the bulk of the Authority are engineering staff , passenger and apron services staff and security staff . |
| 23 | The islands which make up the nation of Japan lie in an arc off mainland northeast Asia . |
| 24 | The sugars formed by combining the hydrogen with the carbon dioxide are then converted into substances called starches ( the main components of flour and potatoes ) which can be elaborated further into the many complex materials which make up the bodies of living things . |
| 25 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 26 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 27 | All the known particles in the universe can be divided into two groups : particles of spin 1/2 , which make up the matter in the universe , and particles of spin 0 , 1 , and 2 , which , we shall see , give rise to forces between the matter particles . |
| 28 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 29 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 30 | Here instead are two famous paragraphs from Quine 's ‘ Two Dogmas of Empiricism ’ , which sum up the spirit of this fashionable alternative to Positive science : |