Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 2 | I needed to call up the heroic days when Dennis was still around , and we were young and carefree , bonking our brains out while he shouted banalities from the foot of the stairs . |
| 3 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 4 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 5 | There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her . |
| 6 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 7 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 8 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 9 | The man had his back to her until he stopped to lift up the smaller of the two girls . |
| 10 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |
| 11 | ‘ Alan played a brilliant shot when he needed to open up the last two reds . ’ |
| 12 | Above all , he had to speed up the protracted constitutional timetable of his predecessor . |
| 13 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |