Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 2 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 3 | Two author studies made up the highest proportion of articles in both journals . |
| 4 | His wares made up the largest individual parcel in a massive consignment of plate exported to the Tsarina Anna in 1726 , much of which again had paid no duty . |
| 5 | He made a sort of ducking movement to acknowledge his orders and tipped up the nearest chair so that its burden of garments slithered to the flagstones . |
| 6 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |
| 7 | He brought up the arbalest but , even as he did , the great two-edged sword scythed the air , neatly slicing the merchant 's head from his shoulders . |
| 8 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 9 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 10 | Whatever expectations his parents had of him , Valentin grew up the best-balanced and the least ambitious of their children . |
| 11 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
| 12 | Newly-crowned English Schools junior girls champion Donna Riddler , of Richmond and Zetland , notched up the biggest winning margin of the afternoon , beating Shildon 's Nicola Woodfine by 52 seconds in the 3.3K race to take the girls title . |
| 13 | In the continuing war of words between reformers and hardliners , Mr Nemeth conjured up the best insult of the day when he referred to his opponents as ‘ Stone Age conservatives ’ . |
| 14 | News of their ill-luck may have dampened the post-match celebrations at Branch Road last night after Derry rattled up the highest score of the round , 61–17 against north west neighbours Omagh . |
| 15 | Mr Heseltine was asked on LBC radio whether , if the Conservatives ended up the largest party with , say , 320 seats , Mr Major would not get on the telephone to do a deal to secure an overall majority . |
| 16 | ’ Gertrude lowered her voice as she yielded up the spiciest morsel of her story . |
| 17 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 18 | FRANK BRUNO is urging bitter rival Lennox Lewis to world title glory — and set up the biggest British heavyweight battle of all time . |
| 19 | She clocked up the largest number of seizures for any postwar cutter to date , ranging from the Polish fishing fleet on the north east coast , to yachts in the south and west . |
| 20 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 21 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 22 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 23 | Without thinking , Moore picked up the nearest book and threw it . |
| 24 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |
| 25 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |