Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 2 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 3 | If I may be allowed a topical rugby metaphor , we had , so to speak lined up the ball for a conversion . |
| 4 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 5 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 6 | A former 60-a-day-smoker , Mr McTear is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming he would not have taken up the habit in the 1960s had there been health warnings . |
| 7 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
| 8 | Worsley was reappointed surgeon-general to the army in Ireland in 1647 , but seems not to have taken up the post . |
| 9 | The reason the farmer at Ben More has put up the sign you talk about is that he has been particularly troubled by dog owners who ca n't control their animals . |
| 10 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
| 11 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 12 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 13 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 14 | And then , as you walk up , you really should sort of almost end in the ideal place and then having lined up the shot , put it through like that . |
| 15 | Well , does n't seem as if anyone else has put up the score but it was Tottenham 1 — Leeds 1 . |
| 16 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
| 17 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |