Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | erm phrases for in fact quite adequately to speed up the transcription . |