Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 2 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 3 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 4 | To get as close as possible to sea-dwelling fauna ( and perhaps pick up a crustacean for the lunchtable ) , take a short course in diving and snorkelling . |
| 5 | Ants , aphids and plants together make up a kind of farming economy based on sugar . |
| 6 | He did not attempt to remember all the features that together make up a face . |
| 7 | Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment . |
| 8 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 9 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 10 | In S/Z the codes are more like ways of speaking that together make up the discourse . |
| 11 | As always , remember to practise sl-ow-ly at first and only build up the tempo as and when the part begins to feel comfortable . |
| 12 | Loss of skin tone or turgor — gently pinch up the skin which will normally snap straight back into place . |
| 13 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
| 14 | Even unravelling the cause can be so time consuming that many managers merely give up the struggle . |
| 15 | As a matter of policy , the tutors seldom intervene , so pass up the opportunity of helping the students learn ; also ( critics say ) much time is wasted in interminable discussion over semantic niceties . |
| 16 | So pack up a picnic with fresh fruit , crunchy salads and wholemeal rolls with tuna or low-fat cottage cheese fillings |
| 17 | Not knowing more than that , we had a long drive up the Conon before we came on the church — which is sited right below what we thereafter called ‘ The Conon Corbetts ’ . |
| 18 | In plunging breakers the wave front becomes vertical and the crest plunges nearly vertically downwards with far less surge up the beach . |
| 19 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 20 | His aim was to reveal the ‘ naturalness ’ with which newspaper , art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which , even though it is the one we live in , is undoubtedly determined by history ’ ( Barthes 1973 : 11 ) . |
| 21 | So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets , old carpets or sacking . |
| 22 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 23 | Gently turn up the heating , and ensure that they are wrapped up well in light blankets or warmer clothing , and take warm drinks . |
| 24 | Touching the new textures will absorb your baby for a while , so pile up a collection of carpet tiles , vinyl tiles , plastic box lids , corrugated cardboard , egg boxes , fabric , tissue paper , and crinkly chocolate box inserts . |
| 25 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
| 26 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 27 | All I 've got now is I have n't got ta go out for a main , if I 'm out just pick up a couple of bits for him when from Woking . |
| 28 | If you just pick up a sherd of pottery , okay , that really by itself ca n't tell you an awful lot . |
| 29 | You do n't have to mix your colours , squeeze your tubes out , you just pick up a colour . |
| 30 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |