Example sentences of "[verb] up a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What needs to be considered when opening up a blocked off flue ? |
| 2 | Stan Burton , back to his best , had one shot to spare against the successful John Lynch picking up a three on the last end to win 1716 in a quality contest . |
| 3 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 4 | As in Chapter 2 , there will be room only to open up a few of the many possible perspectives and issues , and to suggest some ways of thinking about them . |
| 5 | Dorcas organized younger nomes to digging drainage trenches and rigged up a few of the big light bulbs for heat . |
| 6 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 7 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 8 | But just one product , a heart drug called Tenormin , made up a third of its drugs sales last year , and this treatment faces new competition . |
| 9 | In one London area where 15 per cent of the general population is black , black people make up a third of all psychiatric admissions under the age of 65 years . |
| 10 | The new system will run under MS-DOS or Windows , transmits at a faster 10Mbps than its predecessor and takes up a fifth less memory space : 37Kb on a satellite , 46Kb on a server . |
| 11 | And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock . |
| 12 | The 7960 takes up a third less space than its predecessor and features a new intelligent learning cache algorithm . |
| 13 | KENT went run crazy yesterday as they piled up a 603 for eight — their highest total since 1934 — against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 14 | Because obviously it 's , they are going to some of the paving , we do n't wanting it running up a small onto the next lot . |
| 15 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 16 | The copy of Sartre Adient I had not got a chance to read took up a third of the brief case . |
| 17 | The sort of fellow who gets an erection when he hears the bank rate 's gone up a tenth of a percent . |
| 18 | Making up a mathematic with different bases and signs . |
| 19 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |
| 20 | Channel 4 put up a fifth of the funding for Howard 's End , which brought an Oscar for Emma Thompson , and a third of the money to make Neil Jordan 's Crying Game , starring Ulster-born actors Adrian Dunbar and Stephen Rea . |
| 21 | To reach this point Johnson has taken up a third of his Journey to the Western Islands , and one can now sense the lift of excitement in him , a man about to broach the exotic . |
| 22 | ‘ Now let's put up a few of the torches again and we 'll have a proper competition . ’ |
| 23 | Storing up a ticking-off for her sister , Leonora managed a rather stiff smile to hide the joy bubbling inside her . |
| 24 | ‘ You did n't really think I 'd run away just because you tore up a few of my clothes , did you ? ’ |
| 25 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 26 | If you think the ‘ feeder is emptying too fast it is a simple matter to block up a few of the holes with a piece of sticky tape . |
| 27 | erm , er and I 'm have to take some time over this , so I think erm in the circumstances the better thing to do would be to adjourn this case till Monday morning and hope that Mr can so arrange his affairs to address me at half past ten on that day , er with Mr and with erm , whatever rights he has to erm deal with matters of this , come up a fresh in reply and to finish off , I 'm gon na leave it like that , a very much , and as I say as far , as far as tomorrow 's concerned that 's er not a difficulty with erm , either Mr informs me which is unlikely or I can , at least get a , make a start , er on the other aspects of the judgement , alright then half past ten on Monday morning |
| 28 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 29 | King , who works on the Earl of Leicester 's Holkham estate , picked up a four on the fourth end to go 7–1 ahead and increased his lead to 11–2 . |