Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 2 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 3 | Should a big enough gap open up at just the right time , then you will be able to stay on port and merely harden up to cross the line . |
| 4 | No no he just came up to collect the rent . |
| 5 | Although Mr Crozier admitted his department was still gearing up to implement the legislation , he confirmed that once all the stall were fully trained they would begin prosecuting offenders . |
| 6 | They climb over in groups of 100 , then quickly split up to evade the border guards . |
| 7 | The slaves themselves needed the pidgin as a lingua franca , not just for communication with their captors , but to communicate among themselves ; a typical cargo would bring together slaves from many language groups , and on arrival in the American ports , they were deliberately split up to reduce the likelihood of conspiracies . |
| 8 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 9 | Much of the housing rapidly thrown up to accommodate the workers was overcrowded and insanitary ( see Ferguson 1964 ) . |
| 10 | If you 're always queuing up to use the washbasin , and have the space , why not think about installing more than one in the bathroom . |
| 11 | Ian , who comes from Darlington , intended to take things steady with his Honda CBR 600 but he still ended up challenging the leaders . |
| 12 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 13 | And I do n't think it 's good for the game to see defenders and keepers under so much pressure that they repeatedly end up booting the ball into the stand . ’ |
| 14 | For one thing your own troops will probably end up blocking the line of sight . |
| 15 | You probably end up writing the system file quicker , and have a much simpler system which also maintain in far less time . |
| 16 | Kitty , it turned out , had no head for figures and , worse , fell for every sob story she was told , often ending up giving the food away . |
| 17 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 18 | You see , the structure of authority is often set up to consolidate the position of the leader . |
| 19 | Playgroups were originally set up to fill the gap until the Government started a network of nurseries countrywide . |
| 20 | Once the pins are correctly lined up press the device firmly into its ' socket . |
| 21 | One of the possible explanations for the differences could be that a small subclone was not present initially in the sample of the first tumour and eventually grew up to form the recurrence , but as there were so many genetic changes present in the recurrence which were not initially there and the Lambda MS8 did not show allele loss , a balance of probabilities seemed that the latter tumour was not a progression from the first . |
| 22 | Even topping up to replace the water lost by evaporation is taken care of automatically . |
| 23 | I bet he did n't even look up to see the goalkeeper coming at him and a defender closing in ready to clatter him when he scored . |
| 24 | Spurts of flame began to flicker here and there and presently leapt up to redden the fringes of the great smoke cloud which hung above them .... |
| 25 | Equipped with this rule and with knowledge of what are important events , the animal seems to be well set up to acquire the ability to use initially meaningless environmental cues as predictors of what will happen , and initially haphazard acts as instruments for controlling the environment . |
| 26 | Systematic medical inspection took place ( the famous ‘ hair raids ’ ) , and more robust instructions were issued to local authorities via circulars ( such as the charmingly entitled The Louse and How to Deal With It ) ; an official ‘ Louse Infestation Committee ’ was even set up to ponder the matter . |
| 27 | The surprise came when IBM immediately leaped up to deny the reports . |
| 28 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 29 | As you approach the time of competition , begin ‘ interval training ’ in your aerobic band by working very hard to raise the pulse rate almost into the anaerobic threshold , then easing up to drop the pulse rate down into the lower third of the band . |
| 30 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |