Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pisteur outdid them on his day off by skiing the top section of the mountain nonstop all day and notching up at least 130,000 vertical . |
| 2 | Plantations outyield by almost 10 times managed ‘ natural ’ forest and these pines have a long fibre suitable for pulp , but hardwoods , notably Eucalyptus spp. yield higher total amounts of dry matter , and the most productive may yield up to twice that of the best pines . |
| 3 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 4 | It was good to meet up with so many others plus mates from the list . |
| 5 | Behind the empty and desolate bar , stood the solitary figure of Tim , the barman , calmly tearing up at least half-a-dozen pages of unpaid drinks in the name of Denis O'Neil . |
| 6 | He was struck by how similar the behaviour of different species can be , as in ( for example ) the courtship of different species of ducks which grow up in very different environments . |
| 7 | Filter cartridges , for instance , need regular changing as they get clogged up after about six months . |
| 8 | Such computers have , of course , to stand up to more extreme environmental conditions than in the application areas described above . |
| 9 | Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter . |
| 10 | Now i d in our debate we , we had separately actually come up with very similar f processes . |
| 11 | As will be seen by the illustrations , Basler and Professional/AMI have come up with very different looking installations . |
| 12 | According to Middle East International of May 17 , the EC had come up with more generous terms in response to GCC criticism that " the EC was being too restrictive in offering trade concessions to Gulf exports of petrochemicals " . |
| 13 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 14 | Her book features 100 authentic recipes that can be conjured up in just 35 minutes from start to finish , including antipasti and starters — try ricotta-stuffed dates for an unusual appetiser — and pasta , risotto and other typically Italian main courses . |
| 15 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 16 | ‘ I phoned up from there last night , ’ said Gazzer , talking mainly to stop himself thinking . |
| 17 | ‘ Marie , I phoned up from there last night . ’ |
| 18 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 19 | With a microphone on a long lead plugged in , the on-board mike is automatically disconnected and the sound can then be picked up at much closer range . |
| 20 | So linguists too tend to come up with grammatically correct , but somewhat peculiar examples : ‘ Sincerity may frighten the boy ’ ( Chomsky 1965:63 ) and so on . |
| 21 | It was never a question of somebody saying ‘ we have a depression , let's give them depression movies ’ but given the new dispensation it was Hollywood 's instinct to come up with just that added edge that the age required in its films . |
| 22 | Jason was jealous of her ability to come up with consistently good ideas and saw her as a threat to his career . |
| 23 | Erm , firstly , we are looking at carers for employees , and we 're unlikely to come up with very much , because we have n't got much money to do it . |
| 24 | The only means he has of doing that is by accepting new clause S. He will have to come up with very convincing arguments to persuade any Hon. Member that he can not accept it , but it is framed in the most uncontentious way anyone could imagine . |
| 25 | But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards . |
| 26 | It simply set out some crude ideas on how public spending could be reduced and suggested that ministers should have six months to come up with more refined views . |
| 27 | The SparKit LSI is announcing is the self-same kit it was supposed to come up with almost two years ago — one that would have produced a Sparcstation 2 clone for $18,000 . |
| 28 | And what you want , you want people to come up with as wild as ideas as possible . |
| 29 | Last time if you were n't sure which to make we were allowed to come up with about ten papers |
| 30 | This adds up to more good marks than most cars get . |