Example sentences of "[vb base] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sydney : Early buying petered out to leave the All Ordinaries index up 3.9 points at 1,775.6 . |
| 2 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 3 | Cheer up dull-looking cabinets by painting them in a high gloss or eggshell finish . |
| 4 | When in 1878 the European Congress met at Berlin to rearrange the map of Europe and generally carve up Ottoman territory , the question of the Turco-Persian frontier was again raised . |
| 5 | While he is at it , will he adopt Labour 's policy and top up next year 's pension increase by £5 for single pensioners and £8 for couples ? |
| 6 | It 's a good idea to keep a couple of sacks of gravel over from the job , so you can fill ruts and top up bald patches as the drive wears and settles down . |
| 7 | Ad hoc groups like the North-South and Israel/Palestine Working Groups head up different projects with a style that makes for continuity . |
| 8 | Good boy , hurry up Good boy Rocket |
| 9 | Hurry up green man . |
| 10 | So , viewers at home , do not hesitate , if you have even the slightest piece of useful data , hook up that modem and call , in complete confidence , our unmonitored SnitchLine on the number that is flashing at the bottom of your screen … |
| 11 | Hook up ORIGINAL cast off line of stitches . |
| 12 | ‘ We haul the son a' beetch up that mast now , leetle dog . |
| 13 | Firms raised more external finance than they needed , using the surplus to repay bank debts and build up excess cash . |
| 14 | In fact , more often than not the fieldworker took the initiative in this matter ; investigators who build up long-term relationships with communities frequently hear and record material which they would prefer to remain ignorant about . |
| 15 | Feed dahlias fortnightly with a liquid fertiliser to maintain blooms and build up stout tubers . |
| 16 | ‘ So we build up individual patterns of preferred activities which an interviewer , trained to look for them , can detect . ’ |
| 17 | The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority . |
| 18 | They build up one structure which breaks down and flows into another . |
| 19 | It maybe faithful for a long time , perhaps you build up that trust , and it 's only once you 've got beyond that , that you can then begin to actually influence er , negotiate with them . |
| 20 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 21 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 22 | But the point of the TWE deal is that US West and its other owners could share stakes in a multimedia venture and build up competitive telephone services across America . |
| 23 | The parade of lunacy and corruption will continue , but all you will be able to do is go red in the face , mobilise glycogen from your under-used body , build up huge deposits of cholesterol in your coronary arteries and eventually explode , collapse and croak . |
| 24 | They represent the best hope in years of cutting the rich countries ' farm subsidies which , at taxpayers ' expense , build up huge surpluses of foodstuffs that are then dumped on world markets at low prices — and which then put third-world farmers out of business . |
| 25 | Once infected , people remain carriers of the virus for life , some of them suffering repeated attacks while others build up enough resistance to remain free of symptoms . |
| 26 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 27 | but that does n't mean to say that you can for example you could become build up these Chairman skills that you 've got okay . |
| 28 | Organic farmers build up natural soil fertility by crop rotation — not growing the same crop on any land two years running — and by using farmyard manure and natural composts . |
| 29 | You have a track record and you build up this understanding and you acquire the skills , and it gets easier and easier . |
| 30 | They build up physical strength , stretching their limbs and testing their agility . |