Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 2 | I watched Pa mark the first blade with yellow chalk , pull down his welder 's mask , then winch up the grinding wheel till it just pinged against the right-hand end of the blades , throwing a couple of sparks . |
| 3 | So our policies are designed to strengthen communities , tackle crime and poverty , build up the common wealth and improve the shared quality of life . |
| 4 | If you are going to be away from work for a period in the future , you will have to pay the full rate when you return to paid employment , so it might be as well to start now , and build up the maximum benefit . |
| 5 | Customers dial up the central computer , effectively making a telephone link via a modem between their terminal and the computer housing the databases . |
| 6 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 7 | Stop up the other end , and bury the hose-pipe alongside the beans . |
| 8 | And he could ensure those banks that have delayed interest re-adjustments cough up the entire amount — back-dated . |
| 9 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 10 | Chairman Reacher , who admitted last weekend that he had already started contemplating life without Brian , added : ‘ We are going to get this club back on the rails and climb up the Premier League . |
| 11 | Snuff up the future carnage of the flight . |
| 12 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 13 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 14 | When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race . |
| 15 | More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species . |
| 16 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 17 | Watching the traffic and the rain swallow up the departing taxi , the Captain wondered how the man stayed so thin if he ate that way every day . |
| 18 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 19 | There are several forms of ladybird , with wide variation in colour and number of spots , but all remarkably similar in the voracious manner in which the dark , blackish larvae , which look like tiny crocodiles , gobble up the defenceless prey . |
| 20 | To invoke the program you first start the application from which you wish to print , open up the relevant file , and then press shift and the print screen key . |
| 21 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 22 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 23 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 24 | Add up the total employment in public services in 1981 , that is , the last three categories . |
| 25 | Add up the total employment in all the transport and distributive industries , the top six categories . |
| 26 | Not only that , but continuous 124 mph winds surging around the planet whip up the ochre soil high into the atmosphere , turning the sky pink , virtually obscuring the already wan sunlight . |
| 27 | wearing household ( rubber ) gloves , clear up the soiled paper , place in a polythene bag and clean the surface with detergent |
| 28 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 29 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 30 | ‘ We just couple up the combined battery powers of the Ariadne and the Kilcharran . |