Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 2 | John Stork , until recently also an entirely British-owned search firm , has established a significant niche in the British headhunting business but , unlike GKR , it has concentrated less on building up a large volume of business in London and more on expanding into Europe . |
| 3 | The Scots say they can only be driven away by holding up an open Bible in their face . |
| 4 | This allows the lungs to remain inflated after a breath is taken , without it the lung does not expand adequately and the baby had to work much harder to breathe — rather like blowing up a new balloon as opposed to one with some air already in it . |
| 5 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 6 | The UN 's outer-space division wants to spend $500000 next year on schemes for training and also on setting up an advisory service for Third World space engineers . |
| 7 | Now they have finally agreed to an Ulster Branch request for an evening fixture and will fly into the province immediately after wrapping up the English part of their trip on the previous Wednesday . |
| 8 | A new type is on the market which will produce small groups of narrow pleats in addition to a standard gather , simply by pulling up an alternative set of cords . |
| 9 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 10 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 11 | Sam realized that , for the first time , Clare was yelling at him instead of building up a silent volcano of resentment . |
| 12 | When you next indulge in self-stimulation , instead of summoning up the prone and panting form of some nymph of your fervid fancy , at the moment of climax I want you to contemplate your own dappled visage . |
| 13 | If we want sales to be six-dimensional , instead of making up a six-dimensional cube we attach six different labels to each item and store it in the database once . |
| 14 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 15 | Benelux , for instance , had already moved forward to setting up a low common external tariff with no internal tariffs . |
| 16 | Last month members of the national parliaments of the 21 nations belonging to the Council of Europe called on ministers to look again at setting up a international agency . |
| 17 | The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) . |