Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 2 | Leaving you to patch up the little cuts and grazes that germs love so much . |
| 3 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 4 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 5 | These are very useful , as they enable you to balance up the individual microphone inputs with a degree of precision which is not easy to achieve simply by listening on headphones . |
| 6 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 7 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 8 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 9 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 10 | Even when I can understand all they are saying , they give me little opportunity to reply , so anxious are they to keep up the headlong momentum of their own speech ; then they complain that I say nothing ! |
| 11 | And no , no , I would n't want her to end up the same way as I did . ’ |
| 12 | The spirit of the Lord God is upon me Because the Lord has anointed me To bring good tidings to the afflicted ; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted , To proclaim liberty to the captives And the opening of prison to those who are bound ; To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favour … |
| 13 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 14 | Final assembly is the stage in the car production process when the welded steel car body , having already been painted , is brought together with the engine and transmission , and all the components and trim are attached to it to make up the completed car . |
| 15 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 16 | It might be better for them to prop up the Ottoman empire for a while longer , but at the same time to keep their options open by maintaining contact with the various factions amongst the Serbs . |
| 17 | The programs were originally written for BBC machines because their ‘ user-defined graphics ’ facility enabled me to bring up the special phonetic symbols on screen . |
| 18 | They need us to back up the regular force … but some of the police who are in a supervisory role are anti reserve police . |
| 19 | They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . |