Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The words , ‘ Let's get this country moving again , ’ and ‘ We stand on the edge of a New Frontier , ’ were actually spoken by Kennedy , while 32 years later Bill Clinton promised to ‘ lift up the American people , ’ and of , ‘ a victory of hope over fear … instead of four more tired old years , four new years . ’ |
| 2 | The Founders put up the required £5,000. making a total of £39,650 — enough to match GLEB and trigger the promised grant . |
| 3 | The Schema DDL is the language to set up the global data description . |
| 4 | Perfect to play on the hand-crafted Daly billard table , which will mop up the spare £47,000 you could n't be bothered to take back to the bank . |
| 5 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 6 | You can see that I am representing any vector V as a superposition of two standard vectors 1 and 2 , with coefficients ( as we say ) given by the numbers unc and unc [ For the modern mathematician these numbers would make up the ordered pair ( |
| 7 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 8 | This year 's games , however , did not have the human interest of Calgary — Eddie Edwards , the Jamaican bob-sleigh team 's reggae single , or the four waiters ( coached by their dad ) who made up the Mexican bob team . |
| 9 | Scientists and engineers at the conference , however , foresaw a major collaboration between academics and European financiers who would seek a permit to put up the estimated $130 million to design the garbage ships and capsules . |
| 10 | The ceremony ends with a shotgun blasted into the boughs to wake up the sleeping tree.Does it work … apparently yes.It 's now thought that making such a rumpus around the trees scares off harmful insects … so wassailing really does make the orchards healthier . |
| 11 | It revealed that the Bundesbank spent £17 billion trying to prop up the Italian lira and the pound — most of the cash spent in a bid to save sterling . |
| 12 | I was chosen , along with 12 other British artists , by the charity Living Earth and the British Embassy in Venezuela , to visit the country and soak up the rich flora and fauna and then transfer our impressions onto paper and canvas . |
| 13 | I was chosen , along with 12 other British artists , by the charity Living Earth and the British Embassy in Venezuela , to visit the country and soak up the rich flora and fauna and then transfer our impressions onto paper and canvas . |
| 14 | As soon as this task had been completed a similar procedure to that of setting up the initial data base was adopted . |
| 15 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 16 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 17 | And finally , it offers hardware and software maintenance , which makes up the remaining 39% , and which Bland said the company is keen to develop as it provides a ‘ predictable cash flow and profits ’ — customers tend to renew their contracts year-on-year . |
| 18 | This business makes up the remaining 25% of group sales . |