Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] up the " in BNC.

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1 We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton .
2 While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious .
3 Even if this were n't so , there would probably be good economic reasons for not keeping up the maximum pulse rate all the time .
4 In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg .
5 If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well .
6 But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons .
7 At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened .
8 The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered .
9 Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is .
10 Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance .
11 Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing !
12 It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse .
13 In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents .
14 A sudden glare from outside lit up the windows briefly .
15 Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ?
16 Inflows of money from abroad drive up the exchange rate .
17 When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting .
18 I was used to suddenly closing up the shop anyway .
19 The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently .
20 It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature .
21 Before you before you respond Mr Williamson , Mr Heselton do you want to just pick up the
22 I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice
23 This simple method avoids having to laboriously pick up the worms one by one .
24 ‘ We hope , between us , to gradually build up the tournament , ’ he added .
25 Once the task manager is visible all you can select Tile or Cascade to instantly tidy up the all of the application windows currently open .
26 ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . )
27 Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post .
28 If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead .
29 Then came the time to really pick up the slack once more .
30 Both Simon Draper and Ken Berry had been vehement in their opposition to Branson even contemplating rehiring Wilson , and advised him to now tear up the contract and be done with it .
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