Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was anything like a Foreign Legion story , or something like Hitchcock 's Lifeboat , when the characters had to ration out the water , you 'd slowly turn up the heat . |
| 2 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 3 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 4 | Many feared they 'd simply eat up the opposition , and with feet the size of human hands and powerful legs to go with them , the records looked set to be broken . |
| 5 | ‘ I played some electric guitar as well , because I 'd never pass up the chance to play electric — I really like it better . |
| 6 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 7 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 8 | ‘ The alternative proposal would only show up a handful of sites , not the 100,000 contaminated sites which we estimate exist in Britain . |
| 9 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 10 | Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size . |
| 11 | I would normally set up an area to the right of the input range but for ease of taking screen dumps I have here gone lower down — do not copy my example in a real database that is going to grow bigger ! |
| 12 | Once the tank is more mature I would gradually build up the stocking over several months aiming for shoals of fish , rather than odd pairs and trios . |
| 13 | All the police present were scathing of the legal system , saying that the stupid barrister was from [ name of legal firm ] , and would probably end up a judge . |
| 14 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |
| 15 | Kozlowski said that the new service would be independent of the Soviet Union , would co-operate with North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) countries over issues such as drug trafficking and terrorism , and would also build up a bank of information on Western economic factors as a source of advice for Polish entrepreneurs . |
| 16 | It was understood that the conference would also draw up a timetable for elections . |
| 17 | No doubt a research project to assess the increase of acidity by rain by heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) would also pick up the effect of accumulated dust . |
| 18 | C Ltd would then pay up a dividend to the newly acquired B Ltd as group income . |
| 19 | B Ltd would then pay up a dividend outside a group income election as a franked payment to A Ltd . |
| 20 | The fairy would then fly up the chimney and the human baby would be found at the door . |
| 21 | North would charter a Caribbean cruise ship , the Sea Goddess , for half a million dollars ; the contra leaders would come on board , declare their independence from the regime in Managua , adopt a constitution and seek recognition from Washington ; the ship would then sail up the east coast , turn up the Delaware river and dock in Philadelphia , and cameras would record it all . |
| 22 | When a bather wanted more hot water , he or she had to shout over the noise of filling baths and protesting bathers and the Duchesse singing , and depending on how this eccen-tric woman felt , she would either top up the water from a source outside the cubicles or tell the bather his time was up . |
| 23 | Who would actually draw up the wording of the brochure ? |
| 24 | One of Roscoe 's ideas was a windmill plough , whose sails would actually churn up the bog . |
| 25 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |