Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally she would have derived great satisfaction from the image , and even greater satisfaction from the prospect of spending the night amid the pulsating excitement of Monaco at night , but right now she was finding it hard to work up even the tiniest bit of enthusiasm . |
| 2 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ Travis agreed , then said how he 'd dearly love to ring Rosemary at her parents ' home , but that he knew for sure that he could definitely give up even the frail hope he had left of sharing his life with Rosemary if he did that . |
| 4 | Trained to pick up even the faintest change in vibrations . |
| 5 | Paige strained her ears to pick up even the slightest sound . |
| 6 | ‘ You were spying when you came up here the other day , were n't you ? ’ said Sugden looking through the contents of my handbag . |
| 7 | The pair of them teamed up again the following season when Moss also joined the German manufacturer . |
| 8 | You can put any kind of gauzes in , as fine as you like , they 'll silt up just the same , there 's so much crap in the system . |
| 9 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 10 | It is a daily experience in the lives of most women , who in turn make up statistically the greater part of the population . |
| 11 | Painted directly upon the wall , it takes up almost the entire pub . |
| 12 | Starting his career in the Midlands , over the years Stan worked up both the educational establishment and the country , aiming ever nearer Scotland ; until finally arriving at Carlisle , where he held his last post . |
| 13 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 14 | Though from a much more comfortable background than Burton , Dylan Thomas had been brought up just the other side of Swansea Bay , a few years older than the man who would become his greatest reader . |
| 15 | And er we were all brought up there the whole lot of us and I think I was about fifteen when I left there . |
| 16 | His hand went up just the same . |
| 17 | Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed . |
| 18 | Strangely enough Mr Fallon brought up exactly the same example just 12 hours later at a debate in Polam Hall . |
| 19 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 20 | I mean it does n't pick up precisely the same colour but that in there |
| 21 | ‘ The rest of us had put up much the same , given that we had done it earlier , ’ he assured McLeish . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 23 | ‘ Matador has been two and three tenths ( of a knot ) over every boat here ’ , said Dennis Conner , summing up both the last regatta of the series — the Moët & Chandon Grand Prix in St Thomas , Virgin Islands — and the two previous regattas , in Newport ( RI ) and Miami . |
| 24 | Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day . |