Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 2 | But , on a slow wicket , their partnership of 97 used up 29 overs , and 217 off 55 overs did not look enough . |
| 3 | The talking that accompanies play with such materials as water , sand , clay , junk materials , and bricks , with dramatic role-play in the Wendy house and the model shop , and with imaginative play with miniature animals , people , and vehicles — all of this builds up spoken vocabulary . |
| 4 | And they 're much easier to pick up that way . |
| 5 | Do n't be afraid to open up uncharted areas or kick down a few fences . |
| 6 | Er , and this came up several years ago , when this council went into conversation with the Goddard Estate , and the Goddard Estate wishing to dispose of our assets . |
| 7 | The European Commission last year proposed that all EC railways should separate track operation from running services , in the hope that it would then be easier to open up national railways to outside competition . |
| 8 | Company and tax law should be amended to make it easier to set up diversified forms of ownership including profit-sharing schemes . |
| 9 | The Executive Committee shall be free to set up such committees as it may think fit and decide their terms of reference ; and have power to fill in any casual vacancies among the Honorary Officers , any officers so appointed serving until the next Annual General Meeting at which elections are due to take place . |
| 10 | The pilot of a Rallye had intended to take off from one field and land in another to pick up two passengers for local flying . |
| 11 | Gilford , a 27-year-old from Crewe , is so keen to make the European team that he would even be prepared to give up any invitation he might receive to compete in the US Open this year . |
| 12 | ‘ Space is always available at airports for commercial operations such as shops and bars , but the authorities are not prepared to give up some space for security . ’ |
| 13 | Some set up agricultural communities where they could take refuge from public contempt for ‘ conchies ’ and convince themselves that their experiments in communal living would , once ‘ the grim period of war is over … be remembered as the forerunner of the new society . ’ |
| 14 | Linked to video materials , this opens up all kinds of possibilities for learning by individuals or small groups . |
| 15 | This opens up possible discussion about dramatic structure . |
| 16 | ‘ We need electricians and plumbers willing to give up two weeks of their time to work in the hospital and also fundraisers to help raise the cash to fund the work . ’ |
| 17 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 18 | Because the dollar had a privileged status as a reserve currency , theoretically interchangeable with gold , the United States was free to run up huge balance of payments deficits , print money to cover these deficits , and then export their inflation through foreign investment , in the process buying up foreign companies . |
| 19 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 20 | When women do try to make such claims , this sets up predictable antagonisms between brothers and sisters . |
| 21 | Now this will affect a vast area of atmosphere , because the air moving over that sea surface tends to take up the characteristics and if the temperature 's higher on the sea surface than normal , the air becomes warmer than normal , and this sets up all sorts of reactions , it will probably produce a lot more clouds , for instance , and erm this in turn will cut off the sun 's rays from that area of atmosphere , and this will have an effect on the whole erm heat engine of the atmosphere as we know it so erm we 're now studying how far afield this is affecting the weather . |
| 22 | Early references give the names of Richard Longman , Robert Mitchell and John Mitchel who in 1493 gave up eleven shillings for a chalice . |
| 23 | 12 Follow up specific ideas but do not pester the media after general mailings . |
| 24 | Median follow up two years . |
| 25 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 26 | Clicking this brings up another dialog box , where you can set which directories should be chosen , and specify the details that should select the file or files . |
| 27 | They knew where I was , and it left them free to follow up other leads and so on . |
| 28 | It might be possible to pick up more people . |
| 29 | Using this approach , it is possible to pick up incipient warning signs as the company starts to decline well in advance of it crossing the solvency threshold , allowing much more time for action to be taken . |
| 30 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |