Example sentences of "[vb base] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheer up a gloomy garden with tub , sink or bowl of brilliant bright blooms . |
| 2 | Competing bureaucracies carve up a unitary field ( DES , NCC , SEAC ) . |
| 3 | But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee . |
| 4 | Build up a total heating system room by room |
| 5 | Once you build up a regular routine you will want to get outside whatever the weather is doing . |
| 6 | Clearly such references are not merely longwinded substitutes for a name : they draw attention now to this , now to that aspect of the same person , and so build up a many-sided picture of each character . |
| 7 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 8 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 9 | I would dearly like to do what one friend I know does , and that is buy one beautiful piece of furniture , or exquisite porcelain , each year from Partridge , who always have the very best , and thus build up a fine collection . |
| 10 | Start with black powder eyeshadow on a fine brush , gently build up a fine line close to lashes and out as far as is flattering . |
| 11 | and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are . |
| 12 | Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table . |
| 13 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 14 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 15 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 16 | If you build up an aerobic walking programme you will soon see the excess pounds drop away and you will feel and look fitter and slimmer without weight watching . |
| 17 | In the course of our psychic experiences with the objects of our feelings in our environment we build up an inner world which is peopled by ourselves and the residual images of these objects . |
| 18 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 19 | For instance , ash we build up an initial market share with a tyre that does not wear out we move away from the long-term profitability because replacements fall sharply . |
| 20 | Take a walk around one of the great art galleries of the world and , if inclined , touch up a great master with a spray-can . |
| 21 | As Oliver , Davis and Bentley ( 1981 ) remind us : ‘ The ‘ suburban semi ’ is a cliché which summons up a mental picture of rows of red-roofed , roughcast pairs of houses , each with its bay windows , its porched entrance , its ‘ third bedroom ’ above ’ , ( Oliver , Davis and Bentley , 1981 , p , 11 ) , recalling images of small front gardens and bigger rear ones , side garages and garden gates . |
| 22 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 23 | Cover up a boring view with a simple , unobtrusive treatment . |
| 24 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 25 | We have this morning put up a small display in the central library in Westgate , where people can pick up a leaflet er which summarises what she says and also consult if they wish , the whole report , it 's in the reference library . |
| 26 | The two Belfast Teams put up a great fight with spirited performances from Gillian Cosgrove , Eimear Grieve , Karen Ireland , Jackie Spence , Cathy Murray and Mary McGrath . |
| 27 | They were n't missed — the visitors put up a great show in an English field that looked forever foreign ! |
| 28 | tutorial programme , we talked last , last term er and I said that I 'd like to as soon as possible put up a complete programme of titles , it would be nice if we could have a little er what am I supposed to call them ? |
| 29 | It 's different if you 're paid to come here to give a talk and you put up a poor show but if you 've volunteered then er I think er you know you you really ought to have a different approach to . |
| 30 | Inspired by the presence of their most sacred relic , the Holy Cross , the Christian soldiers put up a tremendous fight . |