Example sentences of "[verb] up [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 2 | But then they dried up and the last seven of his 31 caps came as substitute . |
| 3 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 5 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 6 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 7 | the last six observations of it has , right , the first six observations , sorry the er the first twenty odd observations are real , right , that they have n't been made up but the last six observations have been made up , right , to er to illustrate structural change . |
| 8 | As a result , the first edition of Annex 13 was drawn up and the basic principle of one State ( the State of registry ) being able to participate in the investigation conducted by another State ( the State of occurrence ) was established . |
| 9 | All too frequently heads of agreement alone are drawn up and the full agreement left for later long delayed execution . |
| 10 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 11 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |
| 12 | Part of her was wishing they would hurry up and the other part was hoping they 'd take forever ! |
| 13 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 14 | They barely reached it , for the seas had got up and the waterlogged canoe was foundering as they were hauled to safety . |
| 15 | Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale . |
| 16 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 17 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 18 | Maybe reading the Daily Express , you get up and the fucking paper 's all over the floor and you |
| 19 | As you climb , the view back over the way you 've come opens up and the wild moorland and rolling downlands stretch into the distance . |
| 20 | Early on the morning of March 4th , the remnants of the 33rd were mopped up and the fragmented stones that had once been Douaumont village fell to the Germans . |
| 21 | The slope of the o determines the character of the rest of the face : the more it leans towards the left , the less room the letter takes up and the denser the face as a whole . |
| 22 | the more calories they will burn up and the leaner they will become . |
| 23 | A framework for governing the colonies across the Atlantic had been set up but the British government of the early eighteenth century was not at all energetic in handling problems inside Britain and was most unlikely to exert itself about things further afield . |
| 24 | From here you can look at the menu that has been set up and the vast flexibility that 3DMenu offers . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank God for Madge , ’ Busacher reflected grimly as the curtain went up and the enchanted ballroom brought a round of applause from the audience . |
| 26 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 27 | They looked up and the mammoth wave of all time , a titan among giants , a lumbering dinosaur of a wave , had rubbed out the sky . |
| 28 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |
| 29 | Tents had gone up and the temporary occupants were busy making themselves at home . |
| 30 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |