Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you repress or bottle up so much anger , you simultaneously diminish other feelings , including love and affection . |
| 2 | Its central importance to the profession can not be doubted — the difficult task is to secure the balance between the diverse interests that make up out one profession . |
| 3 | The large ornate mirror that takes up nearly one wall by the side of the fireplace was a bargain junk shop find and , on the other side of the fireplace , John has built a set of bookshelves . |
| 4 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 5 | The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns . |
| 6 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
| 7 | The refrigerator has been built into the peninsula unit and has a three-star , deep-freeze section , defrosts automatically and uses up very little energy . |
| 8 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 9 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |
| 10 | In the early days Yoash was a natural rebel , refusing to make his bed with a proper hospital corner , throwing the blue collection box for the Jewish National Fund at a fellow student , and taking up almost permanent occupancy of the bed-wetters room . |
| 11 | Alternatively it is possible to check females and mate up only those animals that are in oestrus . |
| 12 | Yes , smiles Harriet , tossing her hair , tearing down hovels and putting up Far Eastern hotels , I 'm making the world safer for my family — Bam , punch in the nose for Salim and Sharon and Michael … |
| 13 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 14 | Thus , an individual who has always been an atheist and who is ‘ converted ’ to Christianity may also give up his beliefs that indulging in alcohol , licentious sex , drugs and beating up little old ladies are acceptable elements of every-day behaviour . |
| 15 | He has all but given up hard physical work on his farm . |
| 16 | Even when set up correctly some units have their clip lights coming on at the slightest provocation , while the Alpha seems to have more headroom before it clips , which should therefore mean less chance of unwanted distortion . |