Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 2 | In the present educational climate in the UK this involves an important political stand , opening up problems of language awareness , discourse , text , and tradition . |
| 3 | From at least 1607 he also drew up plans of properties in London to accompany leases of Christ 's Hospital . |
| 4 | The earth seemed to shudder underneath her ; she clutched at it , tearing up handfuls of dusty grass and retching . |
| 5 | She was mistaken only in not tearing up shots of other religious leaders also . |
| 6 | It could also tie up members of the C E C , the General Secretary , the Regional Secretary , the President , Officers and many others in internal wrangles new union just at the time when we need to look outward in the next two or three years . |
| 7 | They saw the union as being primarily concerned with keeping up levels of men 's pay and hence as the sphere and responsibility of men . |
| 8 | One ship came into Cawsand Bay and landed men who ‘ … hanged up barrels of matter fit to take fire upon certain doors by which a train should have burnt the houses ’ . |
| 9 | With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah . |
| 10 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 11 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 12 | Over three days , speakers repeatedly conjured up images of incompetent social engineers , bent on disarming honest citizens and leaving them helpless in the face of criminals ; ‘ anti-gun fetishists ’ in the media , with their expense-account life-styles and homes far from the front line ; lawyers who turn criminals out on to the streets to kill and rape again ; and , above all , the federal government , which is determined to subvert the constitution by establishing a monopoly of arms . |
| 13 | Until recently , the word has always conjured up pictures of food , which imposed an artificial limit on the range of plants . |
| 14 | It had conjured up visions of arcane Celtic stews bubbling mysteriously in metal vessels , and bitter rowan-beer strengthened by the bodies of songbirds . |
| 15 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 16 | These successive submarine eruptions built up layers of material which eventually emerged above the ocean 's surface as a small island , and coral reefs formed around its edge . |
| 17 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 18 | A limited marine transgression in the Roman period caused the formation of salt marsh in the northern part of the Fens , while the Fen rivers aggraded their courses and built up levees of silt . |
| 19 | These wo n't be major giveaways , but the puppets have become magically affected by the overall magic of the Castle and their ‘ minds ’ have picked up fragments of what is elsewhere . |
| 20 | The press quickly picked up rumours of the project and upset Lutyens with garbled and inaccurate descriptions : ‘ Such a bore , ’ he wrote to his wife . |
| 21 | At the very least , why have we not picked up traces of their domestic radio and television ? |
| 22 | However , they quickly adapted themselves and even picked up snatches of Gaelic much to the amusement of our neighbours who were quite proud of their accomplishment . |
| 23 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 24 | Hardly a title to conjure up visions of wild youthful abandonment , ‘ Heaven Knows … ’ pushed The Smiths further into the badlands of bedsit squalor , a Godsend for those who could n't stomach the effortless polish of Sade . |
| 25 | Dieting always seems to conjure up images of endless cottage cheese salads , calorie-counting and saying no to all your favourite foods but our five day diet plan proves that it does n't have to be dull and boring . |
| 26 | Even the most ardent critics of council housing would find it difficult to conjure up images of featherbedded , oversubsidised council tenants driving expensive cars . |
| 27 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 28 | Sometimes she felt she was crunching up shards of glass , blood all over her mouth . |
| 29 | It 's only the resin from the flower and dried up leaves of a very beautiful plant . ’ |
| 30 | Now the wind was inside , whipping my veils and skirts around me , picking up folds of cloth and dropping them , slamming inner doors . |