Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 2 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 3 | Somebody must be locked away somewhere totting up figures , or how would they make all that money ? |
| 4 | Joseph Glanvil , for example , believed that if people gave up belief in ghosts and witches they would soon also give up God , and he investigated some supposedly haunted houses . |
| 5 | right , Craig 's just about to beat up Jane man , and he 's hitting her because she 's meant to have taped over something and I 'm taping over even more of it now ! |
| 6 | Thus policy-makers need to consider not just how to open up employment for lone mothers , but also how best to support those who are not employed . |
| 7 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 8 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 9 | I know that in talking frankly about death I have touched many a raw nerve here , and possibly even stirred up guilt and feelings of unease . |
| 10 | His replacement will probably not take up office until 1 September 193 . |
| 11 | Readers were also still snapping up copies of Thursday 's paper after we rushed out 403,000 extra to meet the overwhelming demand . |
| 12 | Several butterflies , such as the wall ( Lasiommata megera ) and meadow brown ( Maniola jurtina ) , also quickly build up breeding populations . |
| 13 | Perhaps , with its powerful jaws , it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow , a scavenger-cum-predator like today 's lion or hyaena . |
| 14 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 15 | Well actually pottery is covered in a thin layer of glass , so that when your pot is dipped into the glazed solution , it 's simply a suspension of silicone in water which ride on the surface , to leave a powder , which is really finely ground up sand , when you put that into the kiln to fire at a higher temperature it mystifies it , it turns into glass , now it 's |
| 16 | School library services are also now increasingly building up software collections , allowing school librarians and teachers to see demonstrations of software . |
| 17 | Johnny Come Lately , the man to whom the Home Office refused a work permit in 1984 , was now fast making up ground on the inside . |
| 18 | ‘ Great , so we 're just going to sit here like trussed up chickens — ‘ |
| 19 | It is a bitter indictment of our own time that the phrase ‘ inner city ’ should today universally conjure up images of disorder , poverty , fear , vandalism , and alienation . |
| 20 | His reckless stance cost Britain a BILLION pounds propping up the pound and may well yet force up interest rates . |
| 21 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 22 | There was very little waiting around , and then only to build up suspense . |
| 23 | When his trophy fell ungratefully to the floor it almost certainly woke up comics like Chaplin and Keaton and Morecambe while they were turning in their graves . |
| 24 | These people no longer chat up Joe Blow of Idaho : they talk to Wall Street analysts and to serious-money managers across America . |
| 25 | They are no longer sent up chimneys , but they are pressured into alien patterns of behaviour to line the pockets of unscrupulous publishers and to further the cause of revolution by stealth . |
| 26 | She sometimes pulled herself into a corner of the cabin with Roukoubé across her knees on his stomach and patted out a tune softly as she rubbed his back after feeding him , but she no longer made up words : she had no more words , indeed it seemed to her she no longer owned a voice , but only a hollow drum for a head on which others beat their summons . |
| 27 | It is perhaps obvious to state that it is essential for all stories shared to be authentic i.e. not to make up stories — for if stories are fabricated the work of passing on the flame of faith will not happen . |
| 28 | Russia 's freeing of prices had caused controversy with other CIS member states , which were effectively compelled to follow suit , since Russian consumers would otherwise simply buy up goods at controlled prices from neighbouring republics . |
| 29 | But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films ? |
| 30 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |