Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 2 | People who are in one particular workplace and that workplace makes up the branch , then it 's clear from the sort of jobs that they do which section they should be in . |
| 3 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 4 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 5 | Once you have gained the groove line the climb unfolds in a quite compelling way : superb bridging , solid locking finger jams and perfect protection lead up the plum vertical line . |
| 6 | The Bible provides a clear and simple way to clear up the major cause of trouble , and that way is reconciliation . |
| 7 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 8 | And curious peach call up the ticklish nipple , even when |
| 9 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 10 | Colour Explosion from Revlon has vivid colours like Orange Fire and Vicacious Pink making up the range . |
| 11 | Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ . |
| 12 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 13 | For this look , the wig was given a weave and spiral cut to break up the basic exterior shape . |
| 14 | If the Home Secretary meant what he says about keeping public sympathy for genuine refugees , he would address the need for extra resources for the Home Office and Lunar house to speed up the procedures for asylum seeking . |
| 15 | In Alessio Rospigliosi had already turned away from the heavily exploited areas of classical mythology and Christian epic to open up the unpromising vein of hagiology ; he now struck an infinitely more successful one . |