Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 2 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 3 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 4 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 5 | Children 's bedrooms are usually small areas with light-coloured walls , so there should be enough reflected light to lighten up the main scene of action , but if you do bring in any additional low-level lighting , take care to position it where it will not get in the way of the camera or shine into the lens . |
| 6 | In desperation the British gave up the Palestinian mandate in May 1948 , while trying to rescue what they could of their relationship with the Arabs . |
| 7 | Once Eurotunnel and Transmanche Link , the consortium of firms building the tunnel , had produced more precise figures detailing the projected cost over-runs , the banks would be more willing to stump up the extra money , raising borrowing costs if necessary , he added . |
| 8 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 9 | It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive . |
| 10 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |
| 11 | It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule . |
| 12 | ‘ The Front de Liberation National blew up the second largest gendarmerie in Algiers this morning . |
| 13 | The complexity of what needed to be done to give the scheme a chance of success was pushed aside , and Sri Lanka seems likely to end up the poorer , with the poorest suffering most . |
| 14 | Conservative privatisation was supposed to break up the big monopolies and make them more competitive and accountable to the public empty propaganda indeed . |
| 15 | My client is supposed to pay up the black money then . ’ |
| 16 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 17 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 18 | Coal is likely to make up the largest part of UK energy demand in the year 2000 at 32% , slightly more than oil at 30% . |
| 19 | Serve with hot Ciabatta bread ( you get this in most supermarkets ) — ideally , you eat this salad with friends so that you will not feel too inhibited to mop up the delicious dressing with your bread ! |
| 20 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 21 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 22 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 23 | The last great pull up the final top was agony . |
| 24 | The economy embarks on a rather sluggish crawl up the new LM curve until it eventually comes to rest at point C where there is a new , higher equilibrium level of income , Y 2 |
| 25 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 26 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 27 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 28 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |
| 29 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 30 | But Lewis found himself unable to dredge up the appropriate simile . |