Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 2 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 3 | The availability of in vitro fertilization opens up the further possibility that the proembryo which is eventually implanted need not originate from an egg produced by the woman herself . |
| 4 | By the law of association , the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa . |
| 5 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 6 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 7 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 8 | When his pager bleeps , the members of staff being contacted picks up the nearest telephone and dials a prearranged number , such as the reception desk . |
| 9 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 10 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 11 | Chanel sums up the new colour and shape of accessories . |
| 12 | That sums up the cynical hypocrisy and political opportunism of Labour . |
| 13 | Hilton sums up the whole process as he has defined it in Book One through the two images of sin and Christ with a quotation from Galatians 4:19 : Scale 1 , then , maps the whole area of the contemplative life and shows it may be accessed through inner participation in the truth revealed at the Incarnation : Most of the book , however , is occupied with the effort to clarify the process by which the reformation to the likeness of Jesus in his manhood may be begun , the experience of this likeness in the reformed " " of the soul and how it leads to contemplation of the Godhead is not explored in any fullness although it is present as a stated goal . |
| 14 | which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience |
| 15 | Tapestries hang from the huge stone walls , a deep red and gold carpet runs up the sweeping stairway and antiques decorate the floors . |