Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 3 | ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October . |
| 4 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 5 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 6 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 7 | The New Historicists ' 'reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history' would set up an exchange which might be assumed to be awkward . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut , taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it . |
| 9 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 10 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 11 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ One day the sun will burn up the earth it is now nourishing , ’ she thought . |
| 13 | If you are holding it too tightly it will draw up the knitting which will become very tight and solid . |
| 14 | The Word-Maker contains the various symbols — consonants , blends , vowels , etc. — printed on separate slips of card , and a pupil can build up a word he wishes to spell . |
| 15 | In the autumn they established a Women 's International League based on a joint platform of women 's rights and pacifism : ‘ only free women can build up the peace which is to be . ’ |
| 16 | So whoever is responsible for the leak can clean up the mess it 's made . |
| 17 | This village and its neighbour Elterwater ( q.v. ) are old quarrying villages , and from the church at Chapel Stile you can walk up a footpath which leads to the dramatic Thrang Slate Quarry . |