Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 2 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 3 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 4 | Er you need to have a much more all round variety of exercise to build up the different things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Compare two recollections : Delicate motes of movement tiptoeing up the curving sabre-slash of Serenity Crack in Yosemite . |
| 7 | Somehow at the sight of him all her anger seemed to vanish like the wisps of smoke wreathing up the great chimney near by . |
| 8 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound . |
| 11 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 12 | In order to seep up the fetid atmosphere of the New York streets , a hidden camera was used to track Dustin 's peregrinations . |
| 13 | We 're checking on every person who spent the night under this roof , in order to build up the fullest picture of events . |
| 14 | The nationalised industries ' borrowing as a whole had , in fact , become part of the public sector borrowing requirement and , in order to tighten up the monetary control , all new capital for the electricity industry ( and other public sector industries ) from 1956 was raised directly by the Treasury , and then lent by them to the industry . |
| 15 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 16 | The original nationalizing Act ( Transport Act 1947 ) had in fact set up the British Transport Commission , of which BR was only one part . |
| 17 | erm in which you have a core of five permanent members and they are the victors of the second world war erm and then others who sit in in rotation to make up the total assembly but I think it 's about eighteen members altogether ? |
| 18 | The four hunger strikers decided to end their protest on Nov. 13 after the government announced that a bill would be presented to Congress to speed up the judicial processing of their cases . |
| 19 | The heater at the bottom is wired so that it will operate on the cheaper tariff at night to heat up the whole cylinder ; the heater at the top can be used during the day ( on full-rate tariff ) for ‘ topping up ’ when necessary |