Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 32 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 33 | For a great many others , however , particularly those who made up the largely illiterate and religiously unsophisticated rural masses , it brought insufficient comfort and left them feeling powerless in the face of disaster . |
| 34 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 35 | Built in 1864 — 71 , Thoresby was one of the famous Nottinghamshire ‘ Dukeries ’ that 100 years ago made up the most illustrious group of houses in Britain . |
| 36 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 37 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
| 38 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 39 | In analysing the ways in which informal care in the context of an existing familial relationship is both more than and less than personal assistance , she opens up the rather sterile debate about ‘ burden ’ , ‘ dependency ’ and residential care . |
| 40 | Roy Hattersley 's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform . |
| 41 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 42 | Most hotels and similar venues have tracking spotlights and if you have plenty of set-up time , you should be able to cheer up the most basic hotel meeting room . |
| 43 | Originated by New Horizon , a company totally new to me , BoP is very probably the Windows program that takes up the least space on a rapidly filling hard disk . |
| 44 | Here you turn left and drive up the scenically splendid road to the Col de Marie-Blanque . |
| 45 | Hazel and Blackberry turned and scuttled up the nearest run as though he had been a ferret . |
| 46 | The end result is a lovely camouflaged effect , but more importantly the dye has roughened up the normally smooth surface of the reed , which will now take a good varnish that will not chip off . |
| 47 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 48 | She believed that the more a girl covered up the more exciting she was . |
| 49 | If students do not take up the publicly provided loans that are available for them , they are neglecting an important element of the student support system . |
| 50 | As we went up the almost perpendicular staircase , Wendy pulled the banister away from the wall . |
| 51 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 52 | She took up the already damp towel and swathed herself in it . |
| 53 | It picks up the very dim stars . |
| 54 | The ant parts used to paint women 's faces in the maize festival are from the ants that are attracted to the extrafloral nectaries of cassava and keep insects off the beans that are trained up the more robust maize . |
| 55 | Christian Democrats and Fascists , Greens and Republicans , Progressives and Conservatives , there are aplenty , as well , certainly , as some who call themselves Socialists and others who gave up the perfectly respectable name of Communist and now shelter under a variety of weasel descriptions , usually featuring words like ‘ democratic ’ and ‘ left ’ in unconvincing proximity . |
| 56 | In 1801 North Shields consisted of the old ‘ low town ’ at the bottom of and extending up the very steep bluffs at the river mouth . |
| 57 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 58 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ And who 's finished up the better off ? |
| 60 | Despite warnings of impenetrable ice , the crew of Knox-Johnston 's boat , the Suhaili , found the fjord clear and continued up the more problematic Watkins Fjord , dodging icebergs to reach the starting point for the climbing section of the expedition . |