Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 2 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 3 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 4 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 5 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 6 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 7 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 8 | The glass stands silent in the gallery , he wrote , but it burns up the lies of the gallery . |
| 9 | Reacting with a positive touch Peter Jones weighs up the prospects for the Lib Dems , who meet in Dunoon this weekend |
| 10 | cos it makes a fun funny humming or buzzing noise because it picks up the vibrations through the table otherwise . |
| 11 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 12 | The success in putting behind American bars an odious dictator is all the more remarkable because it also neatly winds up the threads of the Iran-Contra scandal . |
| 13 | Another must is the booklet that sums up the findings of the World Fertility Survey , World Fertility Survey — Major Findings and Implications , and its companion volume of statistics , Fertility in the Developing World , both obtainable from the WFS at 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens , London SW1W 0BS , UK . |
| 14 | The exception is the competent and confident young reader like Sharon in Donald Fry 's study ( 1985 , p. 115 ) , who sums up The children of the New Forest with the words ‘ a lot to read for a little bit to happen ’ . |
| 15 | Because of the disposition and the shape of Walter 's continuous check in relation to the wrestplank , the treble end of the check would not pass under the wrestplank as the action slides up the ramps at the back if the ends of the check batten were rigidly fixed to the action frame . |