Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the Court of Bank of Ireland has come up with the greatest riddle since 1782 , when an Act of Parliament established the Bank . |
| 2 | And , by the way , " he added , as if it was all part of the same subject , " I think I 've come up with the safest combination of captain and crew for your journey . |
| 3 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 4 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
| 5 | This comprises a char for the letter ( 1 byte ) , a boolean for the continued flag ( 1 byte ) and a long integer for the next edge index ( 4 bytes ) — a total of 6 bytes which is rounded up to the nearest word boundary ( on a Sun Sparc 2 file server ) , hence 8 bytes . |
| 6 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 7 | CANNON and Ball have been lined up as the latest Christmas cracker for North-East pantomime fans . |
| 8 | Bank managers and accountants tried to depress Finch , but for all the limbo he was in , his spirits were kept up by the strongest curiosity to see what would happen next . |
| 9 | By 1918 these fears had reached fever pitch ; one Conservative MP recalled that his family had expected that the end of the war would be followed by atrocities like those in Russia , that " families like ours would be strung up from the nearest lamp post " ; Robert Sanders was surprised to see on Armistice Day that the crowds were actually cheering the King , so unlike the fate of the Russian royal family a few months earlier . |
| 10 | She must have faced up to the worst outcome , in the process . |