Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 2 | We will lighten up the dreary Brighton sky and dim the fluorescent pier . ’ |
| 3 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 4 | As predicted , we did catch up the cold front , refiled IFR and had to climb even further . |
| 5 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 6 | Like the rolling greens , the fairways are generous , although deep rough awaits anything wayward and some evil bunkers will snap up the timorous approach . |
| 7 | No fish should be kept in this tank , as they will snap up the fragile-shelled baby snails . |
| 8 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 9 | Frances Coady , founder publisher at Vintage , will head up the new literary group , which brings together Jonathan Cape , Chatto & Windus , Vintage and Pimlico . |
| 10 | Clean and well organised , she could conjure up the best with the poorest ingredients . |
| 11 | The imagery and language help conjure up the bleak picture of death in the two poems . |
| 12 | The failure of the Webbs ' campaign to ‘ break up the Poor Law ’ was a disaster for their most sustained attempt to achieve reform by ‘ permeation ’ of the Liberal party . |
| 13 | Politicians are n't going to stick their necks out to help break up the various logjams unless we 're shouting and yelling at them from the bank — for the most part to encourage them , but also to warn them of dire consequences to come if they get out of the hot water before the job is done . |
| 14 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 15 | For Lenin the principal lesson of Marxism on the task of the proletariat in relation to the state during a revolution was that it should ‘ break up the bureaucratic and military machinery ’ ( Lenin 1918 , p. 33 ) . |
| 16 | That 'll warm up the old bones . ’ |
| 17 | Policies that promote welfare are explained in terms of social control ; they are measures to combat disorder and crime just like police and penal policies , measures to legitimize and prop up the capitalist system . |
| 18 | In fact , they could prop up the Conservative Government for a fifth term , if the need arises ! |
| 19 | Mel will send up the ex-Mirror publisher in his TV show with Griff Rhys Jones , who plays a reporter . |
| 20 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 21 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 22 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 23 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 24 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 25 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 26 | came from the hospital to do her midwifery and there was a boy in Wrexham Hospital he 'd give up the permanent job to go to The Yale |
| 27 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 28 | The words , ‘ Let's get this country moving again , ’ and ‘ We stand on the edge of a New Frontier , ’ were actually spoken by Kennedy , while 32 years later Bill Clinton promised to ‘ lift up the American people , ’ and of , ‘ a victory of hope over fear … instead of four more tired old years , four new years . ’ |
| 29 | As you coil the ropes you can soak up the panoramic landscape which stretches from the lush green valleys towards Leek and the Potteries , across to the Roaches and northwards to the wild moors of Axe Edge . |
| 30 | In any event oxygen-breathing organisms could soak up the excess gas as soon as it was produced . |