Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide .
2 Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform .
3 Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply .
4 Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is .
5 He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service .
6 There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality .
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