Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 2 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 3 | Because working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system and are not brought up to accept the values of this system , they are likely to reject the school values and form a delinquent subculture ( Cohen 's definition of this subculture is reproduced as Reading 2 in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | Much of the housing rapidly thrown up to accommodate the workers was overcrowded and insanitary ( see Ferguson 1964 ) . |
| 5 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 6 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |