Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " 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 | I 'd already set up the perch , so I put Dawn on it as I spoke . |
3 | And she was ordering stuff for Nana , you know , fruits , sweets , crisps all sorts of things , upstairs and downstairs and chocolates in , you know , she 'd just go up the shops and buy them . |
4 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
5 | Yeah I know we 'd still go up the Clickers sometimes but we do n't have to go all the time do we ? |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I played some electric guitar as well , because I 'd never pass up the chance to play electric — I really like it better . |
8 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
9 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
10 | Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | They had not crushed the ashes in the hearth , the ink would still show up the names , if that sheriff had thought to look ! |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The fairy would then fly up the chimney and the human baby would be found at the door . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The work would completely tie up the lines — which is where the proposal could come unstuck . |
19 | Who would actually draw up the wording of the brochure ? |
20 | One of Roscoe 's ideas was a windmill plough , whose sails would actually churn up the bog . |
21 | She would never give up the princes . |