Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 2 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 3 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 4 | On reaching the face drop down to the toe of the rocks then climb steeply back up the other side until North West Gully is reached ( 15 minutes ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Tunney , ’ said a female voice , tiny but shouting , ‘ Tunney , pick up the damned phone if you 're there . |
| 6 | In system jargon , the working world is one sub-system within a complete set of sub-systems which make up the total environment or life space of the individual . |
| 7 | There are numerous theories for the type , number and distribution of the holes that make up the free volume but we shall discuss solely the use of the free volume concept in the derivation of the Williams-Landel-Ferry ( WLF ) equation , Equation ( 3.11 ) . |
| 8 | It is these highly-skilled experts who make up the 85-year-old association and exclusive club over which Mr Smythe now presides . |
| 9 | Inside , the great piers curve up the interior space and emphasise the verticality of the design . |
| 10 | Set up the logical name as follows : |
| 11 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 12 | Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military . |
| 13 | It is all too easy to take and agree to a request for samples , ring up the appropriate department or dispatch centre and happily assume that it has gone . |
| 14 | Please use it as a reminder to ensure that you keep up the good work and the resolutions you have started . |
| 15 | Well done Steffi — keep up the good work and keep winning . |
| 16 | Thanks to all those who have informed me of sightings of wildlife ; please keep up the good work and contact me in the Library & information Service , |
| 17 | Keep up the good work and really rise to birthday challenge . |
| 18 | Keep up the good work as I still have a lot to learn . |
| 19 | Keep up the good work as I still have a lot to learn . |
| 20 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 21 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
| 22 | When we die the work stops , the temperature differential starts to disappear , and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings . |
| 23 | It came like throwing paint over the car and paint up the front door and stuff like that , which really annoyed me . |
| 24 | If the pattern is in rectangular blocks , the needles that are slipping ( that is , not knitting ) pull up the adjacent knitting and prevent the needles that are slipping from knitting properly . |
| 25 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 26 | Glide up the Grand Canal or tour the labyrinth of smaller canals for a close-up view of everyday Venetian life . |