Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 2 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 3 | Dip sandwich , both sides , then leave for 30 seconds or so to soak up egg . |
| 4 | They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues . |
| 5 | Exploring the terrain or even setting up camp leave too many things wide open . |
| 6 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
| 7 | what 's it here or er whatever or even pick up notes from Edinburgh people |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been rather avoiding the flat except to call in once or twice to pick up mail , but I 'd a letter this morning from Rachel . |
| 9 | This is one that always comes up lot 's of of working relations |
| 10 | Among the equipment was a maritime receiver that automatically picked up ship transmissions while continuously scanning a preset frequency range and recorded everything on tape , including the position of each vessel . |
| 11 | It sees the outlook as encouraging , thanks to expanding insurance business and repeat business that now makes up 65% of sales . |
| 12 | This would seem to be a more constructive approach than simply locking up individuals . |
| 13 | There is nothing more annoying than unintentionally digging up groups of bulbs when they are dormant . |
| 14 | I mean , I knew from my own experience that carers were not getting the help , they were not getting the back-up , so any sort of really good telephone numbers I had laid my hands on got sort of written away in a wee book , and I was lucky enough to come across an association that actually backed up carers and actually were willing to sort of , put their life on the line and say to me , yes , you have got rights and you need support and we are here to give you that support . |
| 15 | For many UK multinationals , the question has been whether intangibles have been properly exploited to produce UK taxable income ( and thereby mop up ACT ) . |
| 16 | This study has of course raised new problems , and thereby opened up avenues for further investigation . |
| 17 | The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag . |
| 18 | When she was n't inveighing against cruelty to ponies and disgusting language at Rutshire Polo Club , and furiously ringing up Ricky to complain about Perdita thundering ponies five abreast down Eldercombe High Street , she was writing to Dancer , to grumble about cheeky builders , truculent security guards , and Alsatians chasing her cat , Smudge . |
| 19 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 20 | Other SmartMath features include symbolic/numeric optimisation which simplifies expressions before they are calculated and so speeds up calculations , and live symbolics which trigger the program to evaluate expressions symbolically , using all previous definitions in the document . |
| 21 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 22 | As a result , the players were sent ahead to the various tournament sites to give clinics to members and generally to whip up interest . |
| 23 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 24 | The egg shape is a clue to building in the sense of rhythm when drawing the small birds ; you can practise drawing ovals and thus build up bird shapes . |
| 25 | Of course , good melody will sound fine at any tempo , so play slowly and gradually pick up speed . |
| 26 | The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary . |
| 27 | It starts from Ealing Broadway in London 's western suburbs , served by London Transport 's Central and District lines and close to the North Circular Road , and also takes up passengers at Gerrards Cross , convenient for the M25 . |
| 28 | If you do advertise for a companion it is advisable to use a box number and also to take up references . |
| 29 | Obsessed by the need to keep unemployment low they had , according to their conservative critics , pushed up levels of public expenditure and recklessly run up budget deficits without regard to inflation and the difficulties it created . |
| 30 | But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it . |