Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 2 | As Hennessy was opening up the grey lockers at the end of the room , Donaldson spelt Bobo again . |
| 3 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 4 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 5 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 6 | After consultation with the Leeds Permanent Building Society , the EOC drew up the following recommendations in respect of mobility : |
| 7 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |
| 8 | First , to sum up the relevant conclusions so far . |
| 9 | So , to sum up the main points so far : the scriptible as a value and the commentary as a form of reading both imply an approach which is largely incompatible with the chief principles of classical structuralism . |
| 10 | So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics . |
| 11 | The results of this voyage were published in fifty large volumes between 1880 and 1895 , and represented international collaboration in oceanography and marine biology ; the most eminent authorities in the world were chosen to write up the various results and describe the collections . |
| 12 | This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management . |
| 13 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 14 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 15 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 16 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 17 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 18 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 19 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 20 | Why do n't you count up the French words in italics and see how many you can learn by heart . |
| 21 | The herd tends to flee together and the stripes are thought to jumble up the individual shapes and make the fleeing herd look like one great mass of black and white patterning . |
| 22 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |
| 23 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 24 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 25 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 26 | make a note to check any " odd ones " in other lists later match up the separate lists one against the other to make sure that each list contains a different sound . |
| 27 | Match up the potential customers below with the sort of shop you think they would buy from . |
| 28 | than a poet ever could ; picking up the smallest insects |
| 29 | Picking up the Tiny Tears she grasped it to herself , cuddling the cold plastic head to her face . |
| 30 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |