Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 2 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 3 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 4 | One of them picked up the rolled newspaper which Clasper had flung into the crowd . |
| 5 | German nationalism was very largely a search for a lost , elusive , mythical unity with which to bind up the German states in a re-animated , re-invented version of German history . |
| 6 | In his summing up the prosecuting counsel said , " this was a highly sophisticated and skilful drug smuggling racket , involving detailed planning , substantial finance and ingenuity . |
| 7 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |
| 8 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 9 | Nothing about what conjures up the distinctive perfume of a bookshop , however . |
| 10 | Part of this culture was a certain distinction between what made up the sacred and what made up the profane spheres . |