Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father gently picks up the nearest little one and begins to fit its harness on . |
| 2 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 3 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 4 | They 'd probably end up the best of friends . |
| 5 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 6 | For the working poor , social-security payments typically make up the largest part of their tax bill . |
| 7 | Some of your comments really sum up the TECHNIQUEST experience : |
| 8 | So the Tories could still just about end up the biggest party , and we will hear no more about the disastrous campaign . |
| 9 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |