Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their belief in ‘ maximum self-reliance ’ with regional parliaments retaining ‘ most legislative powers ’ did not prevent the British manifesto from declaring that a Green government would use the European courts to speed up UK compliance with EC environmental directives . |
| 2 | Two High Court judges ruled yesterday that the Magna Carta , dating from 1215 , gave the public rights to dig up lugworms on beaches . |
| 3 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 4 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 5 | As it happens , the Brits end up with egg on the face , while the native Indians come up trumps . |
| 6 | Dry and tinned stores were issued readily , but meat , vegetables and fruit were not so easy to procure , and often I went out into the surrounding villages to buy up food which normally would have come into the Maymyo bazaar . |
| 7 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 8 | About , you know , the horrible charges , and they were horribly badly charged , I mean , Lloyds Bank you reckon they could activate ten and a half percent in its first year to actually break even you know , because of the initial charges setting up fees , etcetera . |
| 9 | Again one of the essential elements picking up information is that if you enjoy you will then learn more . |
| 10 | It 's big business , and the drive-away companies use up tankfuls of drivers on a casual basis . |
| 11 | A flexing of the green planes making up Bryn 's face could have been interpreted as a smile . |
| 12 | The promoters of the Club would like to see more of the local tradesmen take up bonds , feeling convinced that in doing so they would confer indirect benefit upon themselves . ’ |