Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 2 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |
| 3 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 4 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 5 | Elections to the Nationalrat ( lower house of the federal parliament ) on Oct. 20 left the four largest parties , which together made up the governing coalition , controlling 147 of the 200 seats ( previously 159 ) ; the Radical Democratic Party ( FDP/PRD ) lost seven seats and the Christian Democratic People 's Party ( CVP/PDC ) lost five . |
| 6 | In testing , a large number of sections or items which together make up the complete test . |
| 7 | Under the 1961 Constitution an executive President is directly elected for a five-year term , as are the 49-member Senate and 196-member Chamber of Deputies which together make up the National Congress . |
| 8 | Hence the simplest approach to the study of social policy is to describe the policies and institutions that together make up the British system of social services . |
| 9 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 10 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 11 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 12 | For all the talk of Welsh rebirth , Scotland 's performance ought to be good enough to set up the Triple Crown chance at Twickenham next month . |
| 13 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 14 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 15 | She took a deep breath , made the effort to be mature enough to pick up the olive branch . |
| 16 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 17 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 18 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 19 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 20 | However , this nutritional " recovery " is only tidying up the physical consequence of the disease . |
| 21 | I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs . |
| 22 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 23 | Betelgeux is a vast red supergiant , large enough to swallow up the whole orbit of the Earth round the Sun , while the pure white Rigel is a cosmic searchlight with 60000 times the Sun 's luminosity . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By the early 1830s the very ‘ glut ’ of petitions so held up the normal business of the day that , although an exceptional petition like that of the ladies could make an impression , the House of Commons acted to refer petitions to a committee and deny immediate speech on them on the floor of the House . |
| 26 | Actually , plants are not the only creatures that can be better judges of character than many humans , for stories abound of dogs , horses and other creatures instinctively picking up the unpleasant and threatening vibrations from some human and responding with a personally directed snarl or with a well-aimed kick or bite . |
| 27 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 28 | The special tube shapes for the rocket are achieved by baking cake mixture in empty food cans just make up the required raw cake quantity as shown in the chart on page 12 . |
| 29 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 30 | On reaching the face drop down to the toe of the rocks then climb steeply back up the other side until North West Gully is reached ( 15 minutes ) . |