Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 2 | These publications are very valuable , even when they require correction , but they only make up a tiny part of the huge body of statistical information now available in print . |
| 3 | Courses in the humanities may encourage a personal response from the students , but do they always open up a full range of rival positions ? |
| 4 | They also set up a light-engineering works ( one of a number throughout the Prussian east ) at Dirschau ( Tczew ) . |
| 5 | They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties , to make sure they stayed alert . |
| 6 | Sometimes they even set up a physical image very close to conventionally-desirable femininity as an implicit goal ( Diamond 1985 ) . |