Example sentences of "[verb] up an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two boats to take up the lead were Barthelsson and Strandman who sailed right away from the fleet , opening up an enormous lead . |
| 2 | And bizarrely , there 's no function for opening up an empty budget planner ; you have to save the example planner under a different name and delete all the data from it . |
| 3 | The CUMS celebrated its first local congress in October 1982 and drew up an organizational structure to give equal representation to all the organizations of women which wished to participate . |
| 4 | The NCC , the government body dealing with the statutory designation of nature reserves , drew up an initial list of seven sites warranting Marine Nature Reserve status — Lundy Island and the Isles of Scilly in England , St Abbs Head and Loch Sween in Scotland and Skomer , Menai Strait and Bardsey in Wales . |
| 5 | Following the report , the National Union of Teachers ' ‘ stress project team ’ then drew up an organisational action plan which , it argued , would , if implemented , reduce the sources of stress . |
| 6 | In 1775 the Physiocrat Dupont de Nemours drew up an elaborate scheme for a hierarchy of local and provincial representative assemblies with a national one as its culminating point . |
| 7 | In the weeks following the dinner Lutyens swiftly drew up an elaborate set of plans . |
| 8 | The soft drinks sellers tapped out rhythms on the sides of their coolers with bottle-openers , keeping up an incessant chant of Peps , Peps , Peps , although Pepsi was the one drink that none of them had . |
| 9 | Consistently keeping up an outward appearance of beauty can be a strain , and even a repression of other forces which need expression . |
| 10 | Lisa 's story had conjured up an arresting image . |
| 11 | She was celebrated in the media , was featured in a 1940s radio programme and built up an impressive list of clients Sacheverell Sitwell , the Marchioness of Bristol and the Countess of Rosebery plus a clutch of other aristocrats placed regular orders , and a certain Mrs Demarest of the Manor House , Harrold , Bedfordshire used to send twelve small cheeses in lieu of Christmas cards to a selection of her titled friends . |
| 12 | During his long life , Eric Jones-Evans built up an impressive collection , much of which relates to his idol , Henry Irving . |
| 13 | The schoolboys built up an early lead with first half tries from lock Owen Redmond , full-back John Ennis , scrum-half Brian O'Meara and wing forward Derek Suffern . |
| 14 | British car manufacturers built up an unenviable reputation over the late 1940s and in the 1950s in both respects [ Bhaskar , 1979 ; Pagnamenta and Overy , 1984 ] . |
| 15 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 16 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |
| 17 | ‘ Just picked up an odd-looking customer . |
| 18 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 19 | Pogorelich 's striking if ungenerous coupling again suggests his capacity to conjure up an uncanny sense of drama , to contrast Scriabin 's ‘ quiet of a summer night on the seashore ’ with the ‘ vast expanse of an ocean stormily agitated ’ with the most compulsive virtuosity . |
| 20 | CEDRIC Pioline and Wally Masur produced another round of magic yesterday to conjure up an unlikely meeting in the semi-finals of the US Open . |
| 21 | If you build up an aerobic walking programme you will soon see the excess pounds drop away and you will feel and look fitter and slimmer without weight watching . |
| 22 | In the course of our psychic experiences with the objects of our feelings in our environment we build up an inner world which is peopled by ourselves and the residual images of these objects . |
| 23 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 24 | For instance , ash we build up an initial market share with a tyre that does not wear out we move away from the long-term profitability because replacements fall sharply . |
| 25 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
| 26 | If you find any faults at all , simply throw the set away and buy a new one ; they cost very little , and it is a false and potentially lethal economy to try to patch up an unsafe set . |
| 27 | Why then attempt to patch up an old overall as if one were repairing a sumptuous evening dress ? |
| 28 | During this period there has also grown up an international community of people interested in gender in mathematics and/or science and/or technology . |
| 29 | ‘ The fifty-metre array is picking up an odd waveform . |
| 30 | Once hired , the scientists would continue to be paid by the federal government , with regional government picking up an increasing share of the salary each year . |