Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do we need to strengthen up the entire body to keep it in good working order but there are certain areas that need extra exercise to give the area more definition ; areas that accumulate unwanted flab . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Chapter 8 can not claim to clear up the confusing array of approaches but it will offer some guidance , though with the definition of a national curriculum the role for the school in this is unclear . |
| 4 | As though in wonder that any virus , let alone a foreign one , would dare to get up the royal hooter . |
| 5 | As he went up behind her , step by step , eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs , he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry . |
| 6 | Thus , a tenant may contract to yield up the demised property including tenant 's fixtures ( Leschallas v Woolf [ 1908 ] 1 Ch 641 ) . |
| 7 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 8 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 9 | Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision . |
| 10 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 11 | I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples . |
| 12 | For the first time in warfare , motorized trucks were the sole means of transport , for to have used horses would have choked up the whole movement of supplies . |
| 13 | ‘ These would have blown up the entire gold and diamond market , ’ the bomb squad chief , Nandkumar Chowgule , told reporters after the area had been cleared . |
| 14 | Barbara looked up as she dragged Jimmy to one side , and saw Duvall stoop to pick up the broken neck of the whisky bottle that she had dropped . |
| 15 | Alone with Shannon , Marianne did n't bother to keep up the saccharin-sweet condescension she bestowed on her when Dane and Josh were around , and the undisguised venom in her green eyes sent a ripple of unease along Shae 's spine . |
| 16 | Do n't forget to take up the READY position after signalling each word . |
| 17 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |