Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 2 | They 're soft on baby 's skin yet strong enough to clean up any job . |
| 3 | The purpose of this policy is twofold , first as a means of achieving a more effective link between education and employment so that school leavers are old enough to take up productive work when they leave school , secondly as a means of offering a basic education to a greater number of the nation 's children and ensuring that they stay at school to complete it . |
| 4 | Do these all go up two squares at a time ? |
| 5 | The residential streets did n't like it early in the morning , the clatter of Midnight 's hooves on their concrete drives , but she was no worse than the milkman , and they were quick enough to scoop up any free dung for their roses , she noticed . |
| 6 | Most of these probably end up cracked at home for domestic consumption . |
| 7 | If you have any older games that are infuriatingly fast then load up this excellent compact utility . |
| 8 | His body yearned for her ; once she was his wife she would lose her prudery , as all properly brought up young women did ; and they would wed and bed , like the two in the song . |
| 9 | In the middle of page twenty eight , George lists all his different erm qualifications that he says he has and , I am not quite sure what an is an M A Master of Arts , P H D which is a doctor of erm philosophy and and he puts them all together to make up this word , ABMAPHD which does n't exist obviously as a real word . |
| 10 | Martin Pipe 's charge should be good enough to pick up this decent prize . |
| 11 | Sir Ralph 's servant Rastani was lithe and able enough to climb up that wall . ’ |
| 12 | Ulster 's pair Hilton Meneely and Andrew Dennison are on each other 's heels , with 857 and 854 points respectively , with German-based Meneely moving up seven places to No 344 . |
| 13 | And I do n't want to think he was mean enough to pick up stolen candles from a crooked verger . ’ |
| 14 | It rolls up small so takes up little space in a rucksack . |
| 15 | You can do some simple calc calculations by thinking of a number line , for example , two , minus two , plus five means start at minus two then go up five so you 'll finish at three . |
| 16 | In performance , the first two are prone to bouts of noisy , head-splitting virtuosity , and Third mercilessly shows up those who fail to integrate this volatility into music of a more obviously poetic nature , and the Fourth is one of those elusive late pieces , whose rarefied world is closed to all but the most sensitive of artists . |
| 17 | One look at the Moon or even back at Earth could spell disaster for the infrared detectors which have to be sensitive enough to pick up tiny amounts of radiation from distant stars and galaxies . |
| 18 | In addition , the group developed robotic equipment , using three-dimensional video monitors , that is sensitive enough to pick up single gold coins and to lift heavy beams . |
| 19 | At this point it would automatically have been sensitive enough to pick up airborne vibrations of sufficient loudness and/or sufficient nearness of origin . |