Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature . |
| 3 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 4 | A more equivocal comment that perhaps best sums up the evaluations that led to RCA has been made by Timmons ( 1980 ) : ‘ While these measures [ in soil conservation ] have seldom attained goals , increases in soil erosion were minimised and occasionally soil losses reduced . |
| 5 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 6 | I have only just plucked up the courage to write to you after a year and a half of reading ZZAP ! |
| 7 | I 've only just tidied up the front again last weekend . |
| 8 | So simply making up the calcium that astronauts excrete may not ensure that it is laid down properly in new bone . |
| 9 | To achieve those outputs the immediate suppliers , in their turn , purchase inputs from other firms , this constituting another set of outputs ; and so on back up the supply chain . |
| 10 | These operate as discursive resources to be drawn upon and articulated in different combinations in particular contexts , thus constantly opening up the possibility of tension , inconsistency and contradiction within and between sites . |
| 11 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 12 | That just about sums up the book , but the Vietnam/Cambodia industry goes on . |
| 13 | He took a final pull of his beer : by the time he had finished it , Annie was hovering above him , her large red hands already noisily piling up the dishes . |
| 14 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 15 | The way he expressed it , quaint to us today , nevertheless neatly points up the dilemma : If one government has a right to require that children be religiously educated , so has another , so have all ( whether … in Constantinople Islamism , or Pekin Confucionism … ) . |
| 16 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 17 | It 's that flippancy that makes the listeners love him ; three hours ’ broadcasting a day is usually enough to use up the excess , but he does n't work weekends . ’ |
| 18 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 19 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 20 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 21 | ‘ If it happens , ’ she returned , placing a heavy emphasis on the first word , ‘ my father will once again pick up the reins of control . ’ |
| 22 | Now erm I suppose more recently coming up the present , coming away from nineteenth century Vienna into erm I suppose really I suppose the nineteen seventies , nineteen eighties , people became much more interested in the issue of child sex abuse again and this was n't really because of any great developments in clinical psychology or psychiatry . |
| 23 | Where the road bears left continue straight on to pick up the coast path above Caerbwdy Bay — look out for the purple sandstone around the bay . |
| 24 | I think you 'd really have to you 'd probably need to look at the booklet and then speak to erm one of the Prudential people about you know the amount of time you were considering paying contributions and the probably just weigh up the benefits of of each scheme . |
| 25 | You know so it 's it 's it 's six of one and half a dozen of the other really , but the company worker learns to be the guidelines the rules the routines of the company and er also really backs up the company line you know and what they 're doing for them really is for the company . |
| 26 | The success in putting behind American bars an odious dictator is all the more remarkable because it also neatly winds up the threads of the Iran-Contra scandal . |
| 27 | Here Scottish melody always seems very near the surface , and the characteristic dotted-rhythms also curiously conjure up the baroque . |
| 28 | It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom . |
| 29 | In plunging breakers the wave front becomes vertical and the crest plunges nearly vertically downwards with far less surge up the beach . |
| 30 | Problems that improve temporarily and then relapse again and the previously effective remedy no longer works ; a dose or two of Sulphur in this situation will often either clear up the problem or will allow the indicated remedy to work again . |