Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 2 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 3 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
| 4 | Regional pig business manager left , heads up the regional team which includes pig sales manager ( East ) , right ; pig sales manager ( West ) ; pig technical manager and 12 regional sales specialists . |
| 5 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 6 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 7 | Today , Doddy heads up the 400-strong PTGI company , an agency which makes available Guinness throughout the country , from small road-side stalls to large supermarkets , from luxury hotels to more downmarket bars . |
| 8 | GLAZING machine supervisor Steve Wilmore starts up the new glazing machine . |
| 9 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 10 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
| 11 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 12 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 13 | What uses up the conventional memory ? |
| 14 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 15 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 16 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 17 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 18 | The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years . |
| 19 | Each of the four poems has five sections , and each of the sections reflects upon its counterparts in the other poems ; just as each poem develops and resolves its theme , so " Little Gidding " gathers up the three preceding ones in a magisterial synthesis . |
| 20 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 21 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 22 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
| 23 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 24 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 25 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 26 | Nothing about what conjures up the distinctive perfume of a bookshop , however . |
| 27 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 28 | The use of impro in training has gone through many phases ; it still conjures up the traditional , hackneyed image of a student being asked to be a tree or an icecream . |
| 29 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
| 30 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |