Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright , but given time we will eventually build up that skill base again . |
| 2 | Right eat up some of this salad I 'm only on some |
| 3 | the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary . |
| 4 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 5 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 6 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 7 | The also the big rotary blades on 'em are throwing all the grass over the pavement and all over the road and eventually finishes up all down the drains . |
| 8 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 9 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 10 | If you do so , you will not only build up more savings for your retirement but you also enjoy full tax relief on these contributions . |
| 11 | Initial attempts at change came in the wake of the 1974 NHS reorganization , when efforts were made to sectorize Exminster , Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , which together made up one administrative unit as the ‘ Exe Vale Group ’ . |
| 12 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 13 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 14 | Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits . |
| 15 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 16 | In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come . |
| 17 | It is , however , the whole — the books , their bindings , the shelving , stucco and paint — which together make up one of the most atmospheric interiors in Prague . |
| 18 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 19 | Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association . |
| 20 | It also begins to look at some of the processes which together make up these overall trends . |
| 21 | Buffalo , zebra , wildebeest , topi , and Thomson 's gazelle live together in huge groups which together make up some 90% of the total weight of mammals living on the Serengeti . |
| 22 | Coastal cetaceans not only pick up chlorinated hydrocarbons , but also accumulate other industrial pollutants such as heavy metals . |
| 23 | Notice that the conditions on the metric components and derivatives only make up nine equations , whereas there are ten degrees of freedom . |
| 24 | I myself have long given up any hope of a more permanent relationship . ’ |
| 25 | What I do is n't singing about myself , I kinda make up these little stories , I do n't know where they come from … |
| 26 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick . |
| 27 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 28 | By today 's deadline Green King had only picked up forty six per cent of Morland 's shares … |
| 29 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 30 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |