Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you have other applications running the reason is obvious — you are cutting them off in their prime without giving them a chance to save data or clean up any temporary files that they might be using . |
| 2 | They have caused fear and suspicion and encouraged people to look for abuse where there is none , or to dress up actual sexual abuse of children with ‘ satanic ’ imputations . |
| 3 | Students may attempt forced economies on diet or take up casual part-time employment to balance their budgets , but you will have to assess for yourself the degree to which these actions may detract from your physical well-being and ability to study ( see also Chapter 15 on fit for studying ) . |
| 4 | She 'd been so sure he 'd say he was acting on instinct or following up some vague , unsubstantiated rumour — she 'd never anticipated anything so concrete , or so damning . |
| 5 | Recent ‘ scandals ’ about City editors running uninvestigated Friday night PR ‘ drops ’ detailing forthcoming mergers and take-over bids — and one quality paper placing fictional bylines at the end of raw agency copy — merely serve to conceal the extent to which masking and/or dressing up available secondary sources and handouts is now common practice . |
| 6 | The constituency that made up these ordinary readers was probably no more ordinary than Tillyard 's projected Elizabethans were , yet his assumption was of a body of readers outside higher education institutions . |
| 7 | I decided to examine some of the services that made up this massive total . |
| 8 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |
| 9 | It is easy to imagine them combining together to form complex organic materials , of the kind that make up modern living tissue . |
| 10 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 11 | Now it 's sticking out a mile , but the time home that make up another ruddy story to give |
| 12 | It seemed more suitable to employ the legal form of the trust than to set up private joint-stock companies to " own " the roads . |
| 13 | A couple who once toyed with the idea of buying a door would rather do without than open up that time-consuming subject again . |
| 14 | Bergson turned from the bank of screens that took up one whole wall of the long room and got up from his chair . |
| 15 | A Wave washed ashore and within its rushing sound I heard some hope from periodical land — that most finicky home to all media junkies everywhere.Rather than offer up another fascinating glimpse of some consumable , this Wave challenged me to look into myself and wonder whether organic intelligence is what we should be seeking.This story , Inner Space Outer Space has all the trappings of a mystery thriller , except the mystery is ancient and it is us . |
| 16 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 17 | Like the planetary cluster that makes up SenFed Central . |
| 18 | The cooking pot of cultures and races that makes up this vast nation has created distinct regional specialities and major cities will offer everything from kosher to Korean . |
| 19 | Alida knew better than to follow up that particular avenue of thought . |
| 20 | But the discipline that backed up that solitary duty was — even by the standards of the 1920s — extraordinarily harsh and pervasive . |
| 21 | The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’ |
| 22 | Seems a naive little bitch : very anxious to meet her famous sister again , and kiss and make up some pathetic family squabble . ’ |
| 23 | She is unemployed , and bringing up two young daughters on benefits . |
| 24 | Here 's your reservoir going down to town , there 's a a big drop there they 'd normally put it through the turbine and pick up some free electricity |
| 25 | That will actually I 'll be able to put the targets , or the ideas of the targets onto computer , and pick up any trailing training from that . |
| 26 | When Liza seemed surprised , even put out , at this , she hastily altered her arrangements and made up two single beds in the larger room overlooking the sea . |
| 27 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 28 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 29 | She says a massage will help loosen you up and get the blood flowing normally and warm up those aching muscles . |
| 30 | The prohibition on incest is , however , needed , for the young person must leave the family , develop independently of it , and build up other social groups and new cultural objects . |