Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Europe was first to industrialise and thereby throw up the indigent urban proletariat , who in their turn founded the first labour organisations which spawned Marxism and fascism , both truly European ideologies .
2 On Feb. 7 riot police in Cairo outnumbered and forcibly broke up the first protest march against the war by opposition leaders and 50 supporters .
3 Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression .
4 Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character .
5 One way round this problem that has been suggested is to complement our village-centred studies of micro-process with studies of institutional or bureaucratic micro-process ; to do , for example , ethnographies of the planners as well as the planned , and so to build up a composite picture of the social realities of people in different social niches .
6 We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization .
7 In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) .
8 Clearly , one of the potential advantages of this approach is that successive RMI implementations can learn the lessons of earlier sites and hopefully avoid problems and thus speed up the total process .
9 I would dearly like to do what one friend I know does , and that is buy one beautiful piece of furniture , or exquisite porcelain , each year from Partridge , who always have the very best , and thus build up a fine collection .
10 The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers .
11 Pamella spent four days under siege while the pack sat outside and merrily divvied up the 24-hour doorstep into shifts .
12 Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine .
13 Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks .
14 Community development has to do with communities assuming greater control over their own lives and with people , both individually and collectively taking up an increased decision-making role in social life .
15 But after the convention , he launched his campaign with a spirited bus trip from New York to the Midwest and quickly ran up a daunting lead in the polls and held it until the campaign 's end .
16 Stewart-David completed the Val conversions and also built up the droppable torpedoes and bombs to be used .
17 In his new post , he will initiate a graduate course on petroleum policy and economics to complement the Centre 's legal courses , and also set up a new MBA ( oil and gas ) programme , the first of its kind in Scotland .
18 At least confident that Spouse will enjoy , and probably pick up a few tips from , biography of Hitler .
19 Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting .
20 This is brave talk after the event , but in 1981 the speaker certainly acted as if the president had a mandate , meekly conceding control over the timetable and repeatedly running up the white flag before crucial votes .
21 He joined the Palace in the summer of 1961 , and immediately struck up a superb and exciting partnership of ball-playing skills with Johnny Byrne , as newly promoted Palace made an immediate impact upon Division Three .
22 I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book .
23 Dorcas waited as the underfloor space filled up , and then dragged up an empty matchbox to stand on .
24 For a senior job it should not be regarded as a burden to see 12 people and then draw up a short list of three or four .
25 More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) .
26 They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien .
27 And we used to do thirty-six holes a day ; caddie for one player in the morning and then pick up a fresh bag for the afternoon .
28 Sam Reed scored twice and then set up the third goal for Tom Cox .
29 This means discussing the position , the work involved , the skills required , the type of personality who will fit in , with all the people who will expect to benefit from the new employee and then drawing up a written job description .
30 Tumbleweed poked about with a stick and then picked up a small bundle wrapped in a piece of black plastic bin-liner .
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