Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 2 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 3 | The client may feel the deal has been negotiated and merely wants the lawyer to tie up the loose ends . |
| 4 | In the bold decision to set up the Kurdish safe-havens and the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq after the Gulf war , and the decision to intervene militarily in Somalia , we see a significant departure from the principle of absolute sovereignty over domestic matters . |
| 5 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 6 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 7 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 8 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 9 | The rising sun lit up the topmost stones of the Pyramid , and Flaubert , looking down at his feet , noticed a small business-card pinned in place . |
| 10 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 11 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 12 | One of the problems with the dominant Fabianism of UK social policy is its failure to take up the epistemological implications of this commitment to change . |
| 13 | This way of thinking is probably healthier than the one which sees evangelism as synonymous with an evangelistic crusade to fill up the existing churches ' buildings , and make existing churches stronger . |
| 14 | Run For Free led the charge in the £35,000 stamina test , and the Pipe supporting cast mopped up the minor prizes . |
| 15 | In the case of Dataease setting up the initial forms is easy , even quite complex forms with many relationships can be set up very quickly . |
| 16 | They advocated the promotion of party schools at the guberniia level to speed up the educational attainments of local leaders so that they really could set the tone in political culture in sufficient numbers without having to depend so much on shaky agents . |
| 17 | He smiled , then got up , moving across to fetch a small towel to mop up the ch'a , a brush to gather up the tiny pieces of broken porcelain . |
| 18 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 19 | This will help prevent freezing air blowing up the open ends of the waste pipes . |
| 20 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 21 | His daughter summed up the real emotions of herself and her mother . |
| 22 | First , central government set up the Civil Contingencies Unit ( CCU ) , a formal institution based in the cabinet office whose brief was to monitor and respond to industrial disputes in key industries . |
| 23 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 24 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
| 25 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 26 | The day Halifax spurned Hitler , the War Cabinet approved a memorandum setting up the Special Operations Executive . |
| 27 | The present project constitutes a pilot study after which it is hoped to set up a longer term project to follow up the initial findings . |
| 28 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 29 | James Lowther , creative director and deputy chairman at Saatchi and Saatchi , was quietly drafted in by Conservative Central Office over the weekend to spice up the closing stages of John Major 's campaign . |
| 30 | Assume for example that Ford and General Motors between them are in a position to buy up the Great Lakes and pollute them as much as they desire in order to reduce the costs against such an action . |