Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | just breaking up the pieces of stone . |
| 6 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 10 | It also showed up the disasters of previous patterns of so-called neighbourhood planning . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I will have to do what I can now to pick up the threads of my life . |
| 15 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 17 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
| 18 | Why was it , she wondered , that she could n't even summon up the rudiments of politeness with this man ? |
| 19 | The cherry berets made meticulous house-searches , even digging up the floors of some places , going into roof spaces with torches . |
| 20 | The marriage of Louis-Napoleon to Eugénie de Montijo undoubtedly stoked up the fires of her discontent , but the hearth was comfortably alight even before the marriage . |
| 21 | Suddenly , he stood upright , held out his hands like paws , then bunched up the tails of his huge brown coat in front of his stomach to convey an impression of the kangaroo 's pouch , and began to bounce about the room . |
| 22 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 23 | ‘ If it happens , ’ she returned , placing a heavy emphasis on the first word , ‘ my father will once again pick up the reins of control . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 26 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 27 | With reference to the loss of WF-495 in the Atlantic I can recall some newspaper comment about a fishing boat skipper , whose boat had actually trawled up the remains of one of the crew , returning the body immediately to the deep without much thought for the relatives or friends of the deceased . |
| 28 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |