Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 2 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 3 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 4 | Bowie , whose admiration is tinged with honest caution , has summed up the Lacanian system in these words : |
| 5 | To counteract that Murphy has set up the Edinburgh-based PR Centre . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Kenneth Branagh , actor , director and entrepreneur , has saddled up the old warhorse and given it new colours . |
| 8 | Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern . |
| 9 | The issue has climbed up the political agenda . |
| 10 | But a come for an eventual second runway has whipped up the inevitable storm of controversy among local residents . |
| 11 | In true spy fashion , there is also a mysterious third man , Brian Litman , a Hollywood-based producer and agent who has signed up the Foreign Intelligence Veterans Association , a fraternal association in Moscow of 500 old spies made up of retirees from the former Soviet secret service . |
| 12 | Shell UK has started up the new ethylbenzene production unit at its Stanlow manufacturing complex . |
| 13 | Terry has portioned up the mighty delta and has wisely opted to do the undersides during the winter ! |
| 14 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 15 | But as a manager he 's come up the hard way and is burning to make the point that little guys get no favours . |