Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 2 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 3 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 4 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 5 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 6 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 7 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 8 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 9 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 10 | I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs . |
| 11 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 12 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 13 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 14 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 15 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 16 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 17 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 18 | Just cover up the hundred ohms , let's take it out of the circuit . |
| 19 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 20 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 21 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 22 | This will prevent the continuous paper feeding forwards after each section is printed out , thus joining up the four printouts automatically . |
| 23 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 24 | Government and national accounts business unit manager Stewart Oldroyd , claimed that the company has already signed up a few orders prior to the official release , the most significant of which is with the National Bank of Hungary . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought perhaps this year , if I just rustle up a few quiches , buy some French bread — ’ |
| 26 | Just put up a few pictures and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 28 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
| 29 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 30 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |