Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 2 | Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority . |
| 3 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 4 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 5 | While it was the Today newspaper that focused national attention on the fact that the Princess did not have to travel half way round the world to find clean water , it is the aptly-named CoastGuard that has kept up the high standards of cleanliness for royalty and commoners alike . |
| 6 | She saw that its heat had completely dried up the wet streaks of the map drawn by the stranger 's finger . |