Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface .
2 Keep both legs taut and straight and gently push up with both arms .
3 One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years .
4 I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies .
5 His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs .
6 things like that , and we also , I think this year we ought to send Sid one because he came up with ten litres of five each of them boxes so came up with ten litres of wine .
7 Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls .
8 We can only collect up to 2 sacks each week from your house .
9 Such an equation is basically made up of two parts : viz which indicates that business conditions are good , and which indicates business conditions are poor .
10 If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better .
11 ‘ You 'd better hurry up with those exercises . ’
12 They 've only got up to these ones , we do n't know which numbers they are .
13 The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time .
14 He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money .
15 Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster .
16 They can all submit up to five choices , which means that there will be something like eight hundred thousand application forms floating through the system .
17 If your footwear is uncomfortable you will not only end up with sore feet or blisters but you could become a danger to yourself or , worse , still , to others who might have to come and rescue you .
18 This is n't as sophisticated as the one found in Wordstar — you can only view up to two pages at a time , rather than the ten that WordStar allows .
19 So split up into four groups as wi with we did once before .
20 The other use of concealed logicals is to enable you to have VMS directory structures deeper than 8 levels — but you can still only go up to 16 levels , as described below .
21 RELAXING AFTER The Searchers but still masterly , this is Howard Hawks ' critique of High Noon , arguing a true professional like Wayne would n't waste his time begging amateurs for help and would only go up against superior odds if he thought he could cheat his way to victory .
22 One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed .
23 The forceplate is sensitive enough to pick up forces from the heartbeat of someone standing on it , and robust enough to measure up to five tons of horse trotting past .
24 To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways .
25 In its original form NT could only support up to three processors , Sequent says , and was not a scalable .
26 He clambers over the top of the car , with Betty holding his feet , only to end up with two shoes in her hands .
27 ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad .
28 People such as Richard Branson and the Body Shop founders constantly come up with new ideas .
29 From somewhere they would suddenly turn up in all sorts of fancy gear , funny sorts of knickerbockers and sweatshirts with strange devices thereon , and also funny hats .
30 However , the subject of commission rarely crops up with major artists .
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