Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British media 's peculiar psychological tendency to build up sportsmen only to make them scapegoats , at a later stage , for wider national ills is well enough recognised by cricketers . |
| 2 | One Latin American country drew up guidelines which specified that torturers must be able to control themselves ; must go as far as is necessary and no further ; and must have goals that are both important and impersonal . |
| 3 | Repeat colonoscopies were performed every 6 months for the entire 2 year follow up period , and any metachronous adenomas that had occurred were removed . |
| 4 | A major longitudinal study followed up residents in 175 homes for elderly people and found no evidence of continuing upward trends in overall levels of dependency ( Booth et al . , |
| 5 | One of her Lock pictures assembled itself in Marie 's head : miles of crawling grey sea kicking up frills of white foam and the castle black , romantic , against it . |
| 6 | Let us now impose the restriction that whenever we perform an elementary postmultiplying operation to make up Q , we premultiply by the inverse operation to make up P , so that |
| 7 | Giffin , weird six string pick up guitar , £250 . |
| 8 | An ugly purple flush rose up Miss Jarman 's already heated face as she slowly realized how he had manipulated her questioning . |
| 9 | It is two years since the 44-year-old former convict set up Convoy Aid and now he devotes his life to the Romanian orphans . |
| 10 | And yesterday Dixon and Potter spent the whole bloody day chatting up shopkeepers and others about the Garlands in general and Francis in particular . |
| 11 | Countries in the northern hemisphere are frequently covered in cloud even on a warm day , but sunny countries such as Greece and Israel are in ideal locations to make use of active solar power to heat up water , spaces and to create electricity . |