Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salmon swam up only those streams which had been chemically scented . |
| 2 | The new low aspect ratio keels have been specially designed to give the maximum lift to windward as well as allowing the boat to creep into shallow lagoons and creeks where she can dry out without any difficulty thus opening up previously unexplored regions throughout the world . |
| 3 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 4 | I 've rung up about ninety miles so far . ’ |
| 5 | Treachery from a party gearing up below White Slab — only to sneak onto Great/Bow ahead of the queue . |
| 6 | THE highly popular series of Scotsman Literary Lunches starts up again this month with an intriguing trio of authors : the actor Brian Blessed , the agony aunt Claire Rayner and the leading biographer Margaret Forster . |
| 7 | Let me catch up here some points left in suspension . |
| 8 | In all cases a helper is needed , someone strong and active to pull up quite heavy anchors , while the rest of the crew should realise that living in a yacht is like living in a caravan with incredibly soft suspension — and it 's sometimes difficult to hop out for a walk ! |
| 9 | well not directly , erm because the whole purpose of the divisionalization was to put the skill and expertise into each division , at the initial stage of erm divisionalization there were no other marketing people immediately in those other divisions , I was occasionally called on to assist but progressively as they built up there own marketing expertise then my needs were less , they needed me less . |
| 10 | The crew were picked up later that day . |
| 11 | The company has picked up Technically Elite Concepts Inc 's Net/Pod , which enables DECmcc operators to determine local area network usage patterns and detect network problems before they lead to failures ; the combination monitors local and remote segments simultaneously . |
| 12 | ‘ He gets stuck in — and that 's probably why he 's picked up so many knocks down the years . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough have now picked up only two points from the last four games . |
| 14 | Many adults have grown up in an environment in which they have picked up extremely infantile notions — notions which have never been challenged directly , but which , because of their almost total inadequacy and failure to square with other knowledge and experience , cause religion itself to be rejected as people become more sophisticated in other departments of life and other areas of knowledge . |
| 15 | I 'll have to come up there one Monday night and watch him play moosh |
| 16 | The second level , Taylor 's , was to be located downstream from here and driven into the western side of the Red Dell Beck to come up about 180 ft. below the old workings on the surface — Wide Work . |
| 17 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 18 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 19 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 20 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 21 | However , the practical problems of matching up hugely varying exams , at different levels , in a vast variety of subjects , while also paying due respect to the inevitable sectional interests and sensitivities , seem almost insurmountable . |
| 22 | We used up about six towels , and took ages , each of us , to scrub the bath afterwards . |
| 23 | With Steve Bull suffering from the worst goalscoring drought of his career and Wolves picking up just three points from a possible 21 , Turner faces problems . |
| 24 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 25 | Any advantage bestowed on KGDC by its peculiar structure remains a mystery — but one possibility is that a molecule with 24 separate binding sites will be much more effective at picking up very small quantities of substrate . |
| 26 | At the same time , for quite different reasons , animals have evolved sensory systems that are particularly good at picking up biologically important features of the environment . |
| 27 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 28 | Although I dreamed and could thus distinguish sleep from death , although I woke up again each morning , the fear remained , and my sister 's death only served to strengthen it . |
| 29 | For instance if I take the sentence ‘ I woke up late this morning ’ the items present in the sequence are obviously different from one another ; but according to Saussurean theory we make sense of this sentence by implicitly relating it to items which are absent from the sequence but equivalent to those in it , for instance ‘ You went down early that afternoon ’ . |
| 30 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |