Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 2 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 3 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 4 | Too tired to think any more , she kicked off her sandals and freshened herself up in the scented blue-tiled bathroom , brushing her hair and wiping her hands and face , and then her feet , on the fluffiest white towel she had ever felt . |
| 5 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 6 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 7 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 8 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 9 | Then , as he stirred , her body came alive and at last , matching the rhythm of his , she once more gave herself up to the unashamed pleasure of loving and being loved by him . |
| 10 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 11 | The rest divided themselves up amongst the remaining transport and set off with only enough petrol to cover the 400 miles to Jalo . |
| 12 | So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ? |
| 13 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 14 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 15 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |