Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 2 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 3 | Mr Waigel hoped to go to Munich ; Mr Kohl would move someone better at adding up the costs of German unity to the finance ministry . |
| 4 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 5 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 6 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 7 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 8 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 9 | Bull , who has scored four goals in the last two games , did not train yesterday after picking up the injury during Saturday 's 5-0 win over Portsmouth . |
| 10 | The claims of the opponents of monopoly turned out to be reasonably justified ; more and more slaves were shipped across the Atlantic by the independent traders , and the government found itself drawn further and further into keeping up the forts that provided English traders with a base of operations in West Africa . |
| 11 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 12 | The government , indeed , had made careful preparations , both in conserving fuel stocks and protecting the power network with the aid of other European nations , and also in building up the co-ordinating powers of the police nationally to deal with mass picketing . |
| 13 | A shortage of time proved problematical and in order to ensure that the Suhaili negotiated the fjords successfully in picking up the climbers , Knox-Johnston returned to the boat before the others . |
| 14 | And now for picking up the bits . |
| 15 | The reason why this amendment in my view is one that can take us forward is that it places responsibility now for clearing up the mess clearly where it belongs and that 's with the Labour group . |
| 16 | In management reports it is often worth adding up the columns of figures that are presented . |
| 17 | Far from giving up the ghost , Mr Jones now tours the world with his ‘ Absolut Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ’ , staging his late companion 's choreographies , dancing , even getting into debates with local Roman Catholic clergymen about the use of condoms . |
| 18 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she queried evenly on taking up the receiver — and an instant later , Lubor 's apologetic tones hit her ears . |
| 19 | Now they have finally agreed to an Ulster Branch request for an evening fixture and will fly into the province immediately after wrapping up the English part of their trip on the previous Wednesday . |
| 20 | This takes some getting used to , but claustrophobic fingertips need not concern themselves unduly , as the feeling is dispelled immediately upon picking up the guitar . |
| 21 | ‘ The only thing that glass does n't do as well as metal is that metal generates some sound simply by moving up the string , and I really like that kind of character . |
| 22 | He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself . |
| 23 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 24 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 25 | The cards can be stored alphabetically , and children can use them instead of taking up the teacher 's time . |
| 26 | Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake . |
| 27 | When you next indulge in self-stimulation , instead of summoning up the prone and panting form of some nymph of your fervid fancy , at the moment of climax I want you to contemplate your own dappled visage . |
| 28 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |
| 29 | And instead of going up the jetty they went down and they were going to go right back to Rousay again . |
| 30 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |