Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 2 | But that day that that woman phoned up the house erm she said I 've been watching Neighbours or something |
| 3 | Although this procedure speeds up the meeting , the dangers of such a course of action should be realised . |
| 4 | Colleagues who one year lecture you at the Star Chamber on how you have more than enough money turn up the next asking for extra themselves . |
| 5 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 6 | People who are in one particular workplace and that workplace makes up the branch , then it 's clear from the sort of jobs that they do which section they should be in . |
| 7 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 8 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 9 | Once you have gained the groove line the climb unfolds in a quite compelling way : superb bridging , solid locking finger jams and perfect protection lead up the plum vertical line . |
| 10 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 11 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 12 | And curious peach call up the ticklish nipple , even when |
| 13 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 14 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 15 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 16 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 17 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 18 | If the Home Secretary meant what he says about keeping public sympathy for genuine refugees , he would address the need for extra resources for the Home Office and Lunar house to speed up the procedures for asylum seeking . |
| 19 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |