Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well ha , perhaps because of the size of the country then there maybe more stations than in France , or maybe it 's just the way the satellite is pointing to pick up you know , you just happen to pick up more German stations , I do n't know ! |
| 2 | And I care not what may be the motive of the parents who bring their children and want them offered to Christ in the sacrament of baptism it is the grace of God that is available for them there and I think we should be very thoughtful about these matters and try to take up either one position or the other . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's no concern of mine if you choose to sit up there all night , half dressed , not to mention half cut . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 5 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 6 | I have to go up there some time , to find out about the Oyster Festival . ’ |
| 7 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 8 | Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own . |
| 9 | The additional organisational problem is to have the video equipment you need set up so that recording and playback sessions do n't disrupt the working of the other groups . |
| 10 | This image is eagerly developed by the popular press , which almost daily produces the most ridiculous and exaggerated accounts of the tiny minority of bankrupts who have run up extremely large debts . |
| 11 | A special mention for Ah-lah Towns : during the course of ten league matches she and her parents have ended up only eight points short of her maximum of 630 points . |
| 12 | Although some of them have clocked up nearly forty years service , they 'll get no redundancy pay from the company , and their pensions have disappeared . |