Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet to impose a purely ‘ universal ’ reading on a novel such as Pedro Páramo is to impoverish it , for it also — and more immediately — conjures up associations with the ancient Mexican myth of Quetzalcoatl 's journey to Mictlan , the kingdom of the dead , and the world into which we are introduced is one where the indigenous cultural tradition constitutes a living presence . |
| 2 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
| 3 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 4 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 5 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 6 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 7 | It uses experiments to measure its subjects ' behavioural components , and sets up psychologists as the neutral agents of these experiments . |
| 8 | Typical is the Pine Gap installation near Alice Springs in Australia , a huge project that sucks up communications in the Far East and Pacific . |