Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 2 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 3 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 4 | Fairbairn ) aptly summed up the Labour party 's position . |
| 5 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 6 | The two Brownies struggled up , and Mary carefully gathered up the burst parcel . |
| 7 | Everett True , writing in Melody Maker , probably summed up the general reaction to the shows when he wrote : ‘ It 's rock . |
| 8 | In January we 'd also dug up the Hartlepudlian legend of the Mass Frying Pan Burial . |
| 9 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 10 | Strathclyde , a huge left-Labour-controlled council , had not even set up the required risk-capital fund . |
| 11 | Sniffing crossly , she went upstairs herself and lovingly hung up the Persian lamb in the clothes closet . |
| 12 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 13 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 14 | She therefore eased her thin shanks into these all too revealing pants , put a pair of gilt oriental sandals on her feet and hastily touched up the mauve polish on her toenails and fingernails . |
| 15 | He had notionally divided up the Iranian government into a fanatic wing , an extremely fanatic wing , a bridge group and a ‘ right-wing group ’ that leaned towards the West . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 17 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 18 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 19 | Patrick Wilson beautifully summed up the overall problem in a general sense : |