Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 2 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 3 | Students of our naval past may treasure those small books bound in wood salvaged from the Mary Rose , which heeled over and sank off Portsmouth in 1545 ; or brought up from the Royal George which , a tarnished monument to the neglect of the Admiralty , went down at Spithead in 1772 with nearly a thousand souls . |
| 4 | The reason often lies in an over-eager management who are continually hounding the PRO for more column inches or to keep up with the supposed coverage of competitors . |
| 5 | In the thirty-foot-long , dark-panelled bedroom , she lay upon the Jacobean four-poster bed and gazed up at the crimson brocade canopy . |
| 6 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 7 | She sat quite still , the little book in her lap and gazed up at the pale candle flame , hardly seeing it , so busy was her inward eye upon the scenes that had held her in thrall for two hours or more . |
| 8 | She climbed out of the ‘ speeder and gazed up at the darkening sky . |
| 9 | We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team . |
| 10 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 11 | Laura sighed , leaning back on the hard bench and gazing up at the overcast sky . |
| 12 | ‘ And land up in the same condition as you did ? |
| 13 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 14 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 15 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 16 | Heaven knows what pollution of the ocean is occurring in the form of emission of radionuclides , and building up in the various food chains in which plankton play a part . |
| 17 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 18 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 19 | So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh . |
| 20 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 21 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 22 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 23 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 24 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 25 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 26 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 27 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 28 | In general , they tend to follow a more or less logical sequence , starting at the top with a headline ( assuming it is there ) and ending up in the bottom right-hand corner . |
| 29 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 30 | All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ; |