Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] up [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics .
2 Three days before you go away make sure you do a proper clean up of the tank .
3 He 's wirily built , not tall : large feet in huge old leather boots , and here , as later on the steep pull up onto the Crazy Pinnacle , he climbs with a deft , urgent economy .
4 The usual sail up in the " Columba. " the story is absurdly long already . "
5 If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now .
6 The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular .
7 Male homosexuals frequently have warts around the anal margin and in some cases these extend up into the anal canal itself .
8 The Harpenden test facility will show how these stand up to the high temperatures of the tropics .
9 Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium .
10 Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’
11 They say nine out of ten women have problems in learning to feed , and many give up in the first weeks .
12 is that what 's making you all clam up about the potential for women 's traditions ?
13 Now is the time to have a really good clear up in the greenhouse .
14 But I get a woozy feeling when I watch them spoon away , and the plates , twenty or thirty of them — all fill up with the same thing …
15 We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them .
16 But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ?
17 ‘ So we all go up in the lift , and the two bucks as good as carry the mother 's boy into the room ; he 's almost completely gone , and they sit him on the bed and they pour some of the champagne down him and then they come out .
18 Many end up in the camp hospital .
19 Well I er come in , picked all stuff up off the floor lit the fire and I think that were it .
20 ( 1989 ) report that , in a five-year follow up of the population aged 65 + in Leicestershire mortality rates of 87 per cent for the demented and 36 per cent for those without the condition .
21 Pale , cold , clammy , yes , this is the opposite , you 've got all the signs and symptoms here of a stroke , now if , this could go on with and erm if somebody , if something is n't done very quickly with this compression the person has still got this bleed , or clot in the head and eventually they just kind of all come up into the foetus position , literally all goes spastic , all these spastic movements right , you finished writing ?
22 bloody firemen all come up to the bed !
23 5.17 Yield up At the expiration of the Term :
24 Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain .
25 The Spanish system is modelled on those set up in the U.S. ( Indemnity Act of 1975 ) and the U.K. ( National Indemnity act of 1980 ) .
26 I 'm included in the squad , but i end up in the terraces in every game .
27 I gaze up at the cross and listen .
28 And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved .
29 ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film .
30 You approach it along the narrowest road which creeps warily on the side of a steep chalk plateau , one step up from the flat farm land which , after a mile or so , tumbles to West Fleet and over Chesil Beach into the sea .
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