Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 2 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 3 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 4 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 5 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 6 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 7 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 8 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 9 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 10 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 11 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 12 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 13 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 14 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 15 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |
| 16 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ We are very pleased about this as it opens up the entire country music market for us . |
| 18 | This test factor is said to interpret the relationship between the two variables ; it opens up the black box to show how the effect occurs . |
| 19 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 20 | IT IS an old joke , but it sums up the present mood in Australia . |
| 21 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |