Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 2 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 3 | I tell you what , car 's a bit frozen up this morning |
| 4 | And then if they got in good condition built up solid . |
| 5 | I had n't even got the tape lined up ready to the next , the next one on . |
| 6 | You ca n't , one flat 's not gon na be responsible for having the hall lit up all night long which it will be and then length of time , unless it 's on a timer switch . |
| 7 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 8 | By its tests and challenges , a storm called up hidden powers of recuperation . |
| 9 | The proportion of output given up varied according to such factors as region , land quality and time , some allowance being made for the abundance of the harvest . |
| 10 | This subversive exchange represents one of the ‘ pockets of freedom ’ — Sibylle 's own phrase — that were to be found in every stratum of a superficially homogeneous Nazi society — not just in one branch of the Hitler Youth , but in the army at the battlefront and , of course , at home , where Sibylle 's mother shocked her tea guests by referring to her ‘ dear Jewish friends ’ abroad , and her father listened to the forbidden BBC with the volume turned up full . |
| 11 | Since then , pay has on average gone up 30 per cent in real terms — and now we really earn it , too . |
| 12 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 13 | In a will drawn up two years earlier he bequeathed his estate in Bermondsey to his wife Mary , and their two sons Robert and John . |
| 14 | These buildings were simple , their style based up classical domestic architecture ( pages 75–82 and III , IV and XV ) . |
| 15 | With its decorative evergreen leaves , this plant will liven up shaded areas . |
| 16 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 17 | In mid-leap I realised there was a fox curled up asleep under the bank . |
| 18 | Despite poor trading , the bank stumped up another £70,000 for a second premises in Chelsea last year . |
| 19 | Then the truth pours out : FM transmission is based on a scheme drawn up 40 years ago . |
| 20 | In a little ceremony after dinner a neighbour lined up four of us to award points for each of Polly 's dishes . |
| 21 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 22 | If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter . |