Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Make up a table like the one shown . |
| 2 | This points up a second mystery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 7 | Manager Mickey Duff has had talks with Coetzer 's management who are prepared to set up a deal . |
| 8 | From Trap 6 over the testing 620-metre course , Lady Riptide ( 5.59 ) should quickly draw clear to set up a commanding lead . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 13 | This opens up a directory browser so that you can navigate across the disks and down through the directory structure to find the program you want ( in this case QFTD.EXE ) . |
| 14 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 15 | Since Dawn had taken $7.38 million in 1979 and done well worldwide , United Film Distributors ( UFD ) was willing to put up a fairly large budget for Day of the Dead by Romero 's standards . |
| 16 | This throws up a wealth of stems furnished with palish green leaves , comprised of lance-shaped leaflets , above which rise erect plumes of minute flowers , closely packed along the stems like pearls . |
| 17 | Fortunately the software makes allowances for this and it 's generally quicker to knock up a quick likeness and then use the editing features to tidy up . |
| 18 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 19 | A particular field in one table can appear in another table , even if everything else in the second table is different ; this sets up a relationship between the tables — hence the name — which can be exploited by the database manager . |
| 20 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 21 | I 'm tired and depressed and afraid to take up a good job offer . |
| 22 | Some take up a static life — the barnacles ; others swim in vast shoals — the krill which forms the food of whales . |
| 23 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 24 | This brings up a dialogue box , where you type in the necessary alterations . |
| 25 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |
| 26 | This set up a national Poor Law Commission to superintend the system , and formed the parishes into groups known as poor law unions . |
| 27 | However , none of this makes up a complete education and training programme for a building surveyor : it is only the first part , the second being the professional training component culminating in the Test of Professional Competence . |
| 28 | Lefevre spent much of his time standing about in the street outside the theatre to no avail , whilst Thiercelin wasted a day and a half following up a couple of false trails supplied by articles in the local newssheet . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be right to set up a retraining scheme for soon-to-be-redundant members of the shadow Cabinet ? |
| 30 | Then they came , diving out of the sun to our right , each picking up a Ju87 . |