Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 2 | Oh mum rings up every now and again , father is driving me batty |
| 3 | His entrance stirred up an even larger excitement , and the crowd surged forward — Mala among them — for a closer look . |
| 4 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 5 | His first tasks were to erect fortifications , to intrigue to prevent the Arabs from uniting to expel the intruder , and to use the Jews to set up a highly efficient intelligence network . |
| 6 | He became aware of the wind getting up a little more , sending the small clouds scudding across the face of the moon . |
| 7 | To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me . |
| 8 | Of a sudden Hector set up an extraordinarily excited yapping . |
| 9 | Happy Mondays , The Stone Roses and The Beloved opened up a truly wonderful world , available to everyone . |
| 10 | She believed that the more a girl covered up the more exciting she was . |
| 11 | Rodney picked up a not-quite empty bottle of Muscadet . |
| 12 | As TGAT pointed out , pupils with special educational needs make up a very diverse group . |
| 13 | And , qui and most certainly demonstrated the need to set up the very same committee as we have set up . |
| 14 | Atoms open up a much wider range of materials ; glasses ( the first client for FABMS was Pilkingtons which studied the effects of new metallic coatings ) , paint pigments , insulators , biological materials , adhesives and industrial catalysts . |
| 15 | Unlike Paris , in which according to Benjamin , modernity opened up a previously labyrinthine structure , Vienna 's traditional inner city was largely already baroque . |
| 16 | Violette asked Katherine if she could use her room to freshen up a little . |
| 17 | Her imagination conjured up an erotically vivid picture and she knew a hectic flush had risen to her cheeks . |
| 18 | Last night the Jewson League team put up a tremendously committed performance to underline their quality and give the visiting attackers and mid-field men a hard time . |
| 19 | America 's foremost party terrorists follow up the phenomenally successful Cosmic Thing with another set of loony tunes . |
| 20 | RIXI MARKUS , who has died aged 81 , was the first woman in the world to become a bridge grandmaster , and with the late Fritzi Gordon made up the most formidable women 's bridge partnership in the world . |
| 21 | These chargepayers make up a very small amount of the total value of outstanding community charge . |
| 22 | I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the kitchen was being gutted and an architect friend drew up an entirely new conception for the space , involving limed Spanish oak , wrought-iron brackets ( many bought at David de Spenceley 's antiques salvage warehouse in Fulham ) and 300-watt pinpoints of light hidden in the ceiling . |
| 24 | The lights came up a little , and the show was over . |
| 25 | Pareto calls up an inevitably partial selection of historical evidence to support the view that elites are always present in any social system . |
| 26 | When drawing children , you will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 27 | When drawing children , your will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 28 | When drawing children , you will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 29 | When drawing children , your will find that the head takes up a much larger proportion of the height . |
| 30 | Striped shirt and pink tie perked up a little . |