Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 2 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 3 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 4 | If you read again the sections covered by the mnemonic MACRO , you will appreciate that the best effects are produced when you do not merely soak up the words of the textbook author , like some print-absorbing sponge . |
| 5 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 6 | The main argument seems to be whether he could morally take up the titles of Head of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith . |
| 7 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 8 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 9 | and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ? |
| 10 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 13 | I wish I could be like you and just give up the Glens for Linfield . |
| 14 | just breaking up the pieces of stone . |
| 15 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 16 | ‘ Thanks , but … if you could just print up the photos for me … ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sir Michael Angus made it a double whammy for Unilever as the outgoing plc chairman , soon to take up the cudgels on behalf of the CBI , entered the International Marketing Hall of Fame . |
| 19 | All four fingers must be kept on the fretboard as Fig 1a , gradually moving up the strings as Fig 1b . |
| 20 | All four fingers must be kept on the fretboard as Fig 3a , gradually moving up the strings as Fig 3b . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 23 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 24 | It also showed up the disasters of previous patterns of so-called neighbourhood planning . |
| 25 | Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act . |
| 26 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 27 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 28 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ clearly weighing up the chances of Auguste 's swimming underwater to the women 's bathing machine section and drowning his beloved daughter . |
| 30 | Village fêtes in particular often show up the divisions in the village rather well . |