Example sentences of "still [verb] up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack .
2	Let us say that , although not trapped in a fight for survival , we are all still caught up in the ordinary competitiveness of business , social gamesmanship , and marriage .
3	He was still pumped up after the brief battle .
4	Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot .
5	You still finish up with the same amount .
6	Parts of the county are still sobering up from the unprecedented celebrations .
7	Fenella stayed where she was for a moment , still staring up at the imprisoned Nuadu .
8	People still pay up despite the complete lack of ghosts .
9	Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side .
10	Although one of the most interesting objects in the sale , it was not considered sufficiently rare — or Bavarian — to be among the items withdrawn from the sale at the instigation of the Bavarian State , which at the time of writing was still negotiating with Fürstin Gloria over what exactly will still come up in the future Regensburg sale .
11	And as for those alter-egos , his trade name ‘ Samuel Northcliffe ’ still cropped up in the financial and marketing press .
12	INDIAN wonder boy Sachin Tendulkar wrote his name into the Yorkshire record books with a 69-ball century at Headingley yesterday — but still ended up on the losing side .
13	United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline .
14	An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them .

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