Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 2 | She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies . |
| 3 | 2 Make up a table like the one shown . |
| 4 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 5 | This points up a second mystery . |
| 6 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 7 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 8 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 9 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 10 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 11 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 12 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 13 | ‘ If there were only six stetches in the field and eight ploughs working , the first baiter then put the second baiter and another to open up the furrows and lay the tops , so all the ploughs were employed . |
| 14 | Manager Mickey Duff has had talks with Coetzer 's management who are prepared to set up a deal . |
| 15 | From Trap 6 over the testing 620-metre course , Lady Riptide ( 5.59 ) should quickly draw clear to set up a commanding lead . |
| 16 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 17 | In Russia a proposal of 1802 to set up an institute which would offer an elaborate course extending over eight years to prepare young men for a diplomatic career led nowhere . |
| 18 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 19 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 20 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 21 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 22 | For the first time this opened up an honest discussion of feelings , and started the process of constructing a new pattern of interaction . |
| 23 | This opened up an interesting line of enquiry . |
| 24 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 25 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 26 | This skirts the base of the pinnacled north ridge and reaches a ridge beyond , where the final stage of the ascent , of daunting aspect , requires a very steep scramble up a narrowing spire to its airy top . |
| 27 | The poor state of the wall required it to be rebuilt and the people of Pennal took advantage of this to tidy up the churchyard and to turn it into a ‘ heritage garden ’ . |
| 28 | How many of us would be prepared to give up a year or more of life to pay back a debt from which we never benefitted , to satisfy the banks ? |
| 29 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 30 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |