Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 2 | At the appointed time Venturous ' was in position near Nieuport just outside the three mile territorial limit and in due course picked up a small craft leaving the Belgian port . |
| 3 | The outburst follows the allied decision to set up an exclusion zone to protect Shi'ites in Southern Iraq . |
| 4 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 5 | The wind had dropped completely , but there was still a heavy sea running and each wave sent up a sheet of spray as it crashed against the rocks below . |
| 6 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 7 | Made a vain attempt to tidy up the room , which was already looking like a heavy-metal combat zone , and took himself off for a shower . |
| 8 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 9 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 10 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 11 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 12 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 13 | Exhibition-train revenue makes up the final 4 per cent . |
| 14 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 15 | The position of the Socialist Unity Party — Party of Democratic Socialism ( SED-PDS — since December the new name of the communist Socialist Unity Party or SED — see pp. 37107-09 ) had been badly damaged over its controversial attempt to set up a successor organization to the hated State Security police or " Stasi " . |
| 16 | The Foreign Ministry set up a study group on a peace treaty in November 1945 , although it was clearly premature to pursue the problem at this time . |
| 17 | After the Allied landings took place , that same month , Franco 's controlled press continued to assure readers that the Axis still had the upper hand , and the Spanish Foreign Ministry drew up a plan entitled " Bases for Political Negotiations with Germany " . |
| 18 | Success came when he defeated the SDP in 1987 by a slim majority to take up the Stockton South seat . |
| 19 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 20 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 21 | Another flash lit up the sky . |
| 22 | For all three authors the ultimate source of royal authority is not God , or tradition , but the people , whether through some original popular decision to set up a monarchy , or through a constantly renewed popular choice of rulers . |
| 23 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 24 | The establishment of English Heritage opened up the possibility of a second refuge for endangered houses , capable — at least in theory — of taking houses on without the massive endowments required by the National Trust . |
| 25 | Its use of public money to set up a network of city technology colleges in joint ventures with businesses mocked the needs of the majority of children . |
| 26 | This theoretical framework opens up the possibility of analysing the process of technical change in a dynamic disequilibrium context and of integrating work in economics , management and technology . |
| 27 | This study followed up a cohort of 386 patients aged 65 + for six months after their discharge home . |
| 28 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 29 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |
| 30 | Indeed , the other EC countries put little pressure on the British delegation to speed up the ERM process , concluding that the time for concessions to Mrs Thatcher 's doubts was now over . |