Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters . |
| 2 | In early April the excitement built up as the first shoals of mackerel were expected . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the policy was successful , its effects would be picked up when the next analysis was undertaken , and projected into the future . |
| 5 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 6 | It was n't torn up when the other ones went to school . |
| 7 | He 'd noted that Howard had clammed up as the new arrival appeared . |
| 8 | But then they dried up and the last seven of his 31 caps came as substitute . |
| 9 | In the 1860s , the supply of cotton dried up because the Mexican cotton growers had started replacing North Americans , who had become involved in their civil war , as suppliers of cotton for England . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is very probable that these windows were built up when the Old School was converted into the Stockport Assembly Rooms . |
| 12 | However , in the poorer upland areas old ways persisted and long houses continued to be built up until the early 19th century . |
| 13 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 14 | While looking forward in its powerfully climactic , funeral-march sections to the episode of Siegfried 's death in the Wagner excerpts later , the instrumental virtuosity of its writing also seemed to pick up where the preceding concert left off in the Chicago 's bravura , if sometimes coarse-grained account of Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben . |
| 15 | IXI figures to pick up where the Open Software Foundation , a non-profit organization , leaves off , selling Motif as a user-ready environment integrated with its desktop manager and new Deskworks tool set ( UX No 387 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a rush decision to do it , we were phoned up and the next day after that we recorded it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All too frequently heads of agreement alone are drawn up and the full agreement left for later long delayed execution . |
| 22 | The hole in the screen coincided with screams and the lights going up and the immediate disappearance of the images . |
| 23 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |
| 24 | Part of her was wishing they would hurry up and the other part was hoping they 'd take forever ! |
| 25 | Soft cellulite : This shows up as the classic ‘ orange peel ’ dimples on stomach and thighs . |
| 26 | When an illustration or photograph was to be used the appropriate area was opened up and the relevant item stuck in . |
| 27 | They barely reached it , for the seas had got up and the waterlogged canoe was foundering as they were hauled to safety . |
| 28 | And that was the technique that was really used up until the sixties for the determination of salinity . |
| 29 | Veteran abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler turns up until the 17th of this month at a new gallery — new , that is , for her — Knoedler . |
| 30 | NICK HASTED sits back and shuts up while the rejuvenated director talks … and talks … |