Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are garden centres — and for the most part , they will be attached to nurseries where the plants are propagated and grown , not just bought in wholesale — where ‘ container grown ’ really does mean grown in a container , and not potted up a few days beforehand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Getting fit is about small amounts of physical exercise , starting slowly and gradually building up a regular routine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At least confident that Spouse will enjoy , and probably pick up a few tips from , biography of Hitler . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tumbleweed poked about with a stick and then picked up a small bundle wrapped in a piece of black plastic bin-liner . |
| 17 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |
| 18 | Lindsay , 38 , of Knowle , near Solihull , West Midlands , said later : ‘ It beats shopping at Tesco and certainly livened up a dull afternoon . ’ |