Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 2 | He had not won an election , sung an aria , or even built up a business empire . |
| 3 | Other practices that once held up the flow of the dance were the continual closing in 5th position before a new step and the continual moving of the arms through 1st position at every change of weight or during a ports de bras . |
| 4 | Alone together they fell to tender embraces that rapidly shifted up a gear to heavy petting , and before long they had retired to the girl 's bedroom for more adventurous fun and games . |
| 5 | It was a triumph that also set up the Kiwis nicely for a surprise win over the seventh-seeded Italians . |
| 6 | I took sips of my wine and carried on with the supper , and at one point I went across to the bookcase and idly picked up a petal that was lying there . |
| 7 | We bade farewell to the wild deer and , with the wind behind us , crossed Taransay Sound and gently cruised up the fjord-like approach towards civilization . |
| 8 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the mare than in the highlands is not explained in any detail , but the greater variability of rocks within the highlands could be the outcome of the maria impacts which excavated the Moon to large depths and thus brought up a great variety of layers . |
| 9 | Willie did so and soon picked up the melody until he almost began to enjoy it . |
| 10 | She rode out most afternoons and gradually built up a familiarity with most parts of the Lassiter lands . |
| 11 | The Conservatives relied more on monetary policy , and , with R. A. Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer , interest rates fluctuated around a rising trend , and gradually forced up the BEA 's borrowing costs . |
| 12 | Connecting the ME-6 up to an amp , power amp or mixer is as easy as connecting any effect pedal , and once hooked up the ME-6 can store 25 different effect combinations in five memory banks . |
| 13 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 14 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 15 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 16 | They converted the stables into a gallery and here staged art exhibitions , concerts and lectures , and later set up a printing press . |
| 17 | Charles was essentially a shopkeeper and pig butcher ; he turned his waste animal fats into tallow candles — a foul-smelling process at best — to sell to those who chose not to make their own , and also kept up a bit of a sideline in cheese — a product for which the area was , of course , justifiably famous . |
| 18 | Stewart-David completed the Val conversions and also built up the droppable torpedoes and bombs to be used . |
| 19 | In his new post , he will initiate a graduate course on petroleum policy and economics to complement the Centre 's legal courses , and also set up a new MBA ( oil and gas ) programme , the first of its kind in Scotland . |
| 20 | He joined the Palace in the summer of 1961 , and immediately struck up a superb and exciting partnership of ball-playing skills with Johnny Byrne , as newly promoted Palace made an immediate impact upon Division Three . |
| 21 | The man dressed , put on his shoes , stood up , and then bounded up the bank into the field , followed by the dog . |
| 22 | and then divided up the land . |
| 23 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 24 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 25 | Sniffing crossly , she went upstairs herself and lovingly hung up the Persian lamb in the clothes closet . |
| 26 | She therefore eased her thin shanks into these all too revealing pants , put a pair of gilt oriental sandals on her feet and hastily touched up the mauve polish on her toenails and fingernails . |
| 27 | TONY BARRY and Joe Watson have woken up house from its drug-induced stupor , given dance music back its structure and neatly picked up a thread left dangling behind by Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding . |
| 28 | The police had been excluded from prior knowledge of the arrests , but quickly built up an accurate picture . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's nothing , ’ he muttered , but still pulled up the sleeve of his sweatshirt to reveal the inflamed area on his inner wrist . |
| 30 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |