Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're also prone to dredging up the wounding words and cutting critiques others have directed at you recently . |
| 2 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 3 | This exercise is brilliant for toning up the loose skin under the chin . |
| 4 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 5 | Again this is not a view which has been endorsed by all , but it does provide an explanation as to why the government 's proposed reforms are largely confined to measures concerned with speeding up the investigatory process and making existing policy more efficient . |
| 6 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 7 | Some states were not slow in following up the 1967 Act . |