Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would think about giving up that , send the package out and forget about them |
| 2 | They had not need to worry about tidying up some of the ball from the forwards . |
| 3 | And already it looks like stirring up fierce controversy . |
| 4 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 5 | A Martian viewing our race might wonder at our lemming-like ability to self-destruct by gobbling up nasty foods , smoking little chimneys and falling sideways as a result of consuming quantities of amber liquid . |
| 6 | One girl starts by picking up all the beads in one hole on her side . |
| 7 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 8 | He 's the kind of guy I 'm lookin' for to head up regional planning . |
| 9 | When bookwork is laboriously copied , the opportunity is missed of clearing up difficult parts , and of allowing the student to understand . |
| 10 | Certainly there could be links between the two universes of discourse of biology and psychoanalysis , but it was premature and unnecessary for Freud to engage in building up such links before he had established his theory within psychoanalysis . |
| 11 | ( c ) the reserve ( of the same amount because the share capital is cancelled ) created by the reduction of share capital being capitalised and applied in paying up new shares in the target which are issued to the bidder . |
| 12 | The new test depends on picking up subtle differences in the way that DNA is distributed around the nuclei of cancerous cells . |
| 13 | In the seventeenth century , people stopped writing in Latin even when writing for the learned , and various attempts were made at making up universal languages . |
| 14 | Using an X-Windows interface called Netbench , an application is built by linking up multiple instances of these objects . |
| 15 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 16 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 17 | Repoussé work made by hammering up raised areas of sheet gold against a solid block held against the inside and the use of punches and tracers for chasing designs on the outer surface were both being practised by Sumerian smiths at the time of the Ur cemetery . |
| 18 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 19 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |
| 20 | One of the good features of the pond is that the soil extracted for the depth was reused for building up other areas of the pond , so there was no waste to dispose of . |
| 21 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 22 | But health research is serious political business in the United States , and with the patient population for arthritis estimated at 36 million , the basic material exists for drumming up intense public interest . |
| 23 | This job consisted of picking up thirty-six containers from the jetty Where they were being unloaded from HMAV Arakan ( one of the two Army Landing Craft Logistic ) and moving them to the container park . |
| 24 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 25 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 26 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 27 | Farmers are also being given access to grant aid to help in setting up extra activities to supplement their farming income . |
| 28 | Companies which make first-use plastic might prefer recycled plastic to be used in opening up new markets , rather than competing with their products - for example , by substituting for timber . |
| 29 | In this chapter we look at the ways to develop the applications which use the database , including an analysis of data requirements , and in Chapter 7 we look at setting up different external views in the context of different DBMS . |
| 30 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |