Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you repress or bottle up so much anger , you simultaneously diminish other feelings , including love and affection . |
| 2 | Which is centred on Birmingham and goes up as far as the Humber Estuary and down as far as the Severn Estuary . |
| 3 | Many thanks are due to all the members of the old team who have worked so hard for many years and given up so much of their time to represent the Society . |
| 4 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
| 5 | Many of the ‘ real ’ sentences that were processed took so long and used up so much of the computational processing of the SUN system that full testing was not feasible . |
| 6 | Although in many parts of the world babies do n't drink milk after weaning and grow up perfectly healthy , in Northern Europe cow 's milk is part of our diet and young children are encouraged to drink it because it 's cheap , convenient , high in protein and energy , and a good source of calcium and vitamins A and B. There are conflicting opinions on when cow 's milk can first be given to children . |
| 7 | The refrigerator has been built into the peninsula unit and has a three-star , deep-freeze section , defrosts automatically and uses up very little energy . |
| 8 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 9 | Children have rights to health , education , to be free from physical and sexual abuse , to have a voice in the decisions which affect them and to grow up as responsible and active citizens but in many countries today many children stoo still do not enjoy these rights . |
| 10 | Top seed Peter Hayden forget to put his clock forward and turned up too late for his first round match , in an unhappy day for the seeds . |
| 11 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |
| 12 | In the early days Yoash was a natural rebel , refusing to make his bed with a proper hospital corner , throwing the blue collection box for the Jewish National Fund at a fellow student , and taking up almost permanent occupancy of the bed-wetters room . |
| 13 | Alternatively it is possible to check females and mate up only those animals that are in oestrus . |
| 14 | John le Grant had viewed him , it was obvious , as a child enjoying rough play , and brought up suddenly short by reality . |
| 15 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 16 | Also , in the same passage , he says he is going to pack his bag — ‘ my pauper 's bag ’ — and end up either dead of starvation in a ditch or earning his keep as a tutor in some merchant 's house . |
| 17 | Yes , smiles Harriet , tossing her hair , tearing down hovels and putting up Far Eastern hotels , I 'm making the world safer for my family — Bam , punch in the nose for Salim and Sharon and Michael … |
| 18 | Someone he trusted , he thought , returning to his study , and sitting up alone late into the night — and he trusted so few people . |
| 19 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 20 | More than one panzer boy had mistaken the Daughters of the American Revolution for solid citizens , tried the old mug-and-snatch routine , and wound up messily dead . |
| 21 | ( e ) to make initial contact with schools selected and follow up as appropriate |
| 22 | She had to stand on her toes and reach up as high as she could with a walking-stick in order to hook the hat off the peg , and even then she only just made it . |
| 23 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 24 | Others expect to take control of a district and set up parallel administrative and logistic structures . |
| 25 | Stand with feet slightly apart , arms raised above the head and stretch up as high as possible . |
| 26 | Thus , an individual who has always been an atheist and who is ‘ converted ’ to Christianity may also give up his beliefs that indulging in alcohol , licentious sex , drugs and beating up little old ladies are acceptable elements of every-day behaviour . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , I was sweating and burning up so much that I was in danger of melting away into a puddle . |
| 28 | If a child is born with some degree of mental impairment and has parents able to handle the situation calmly , without undue guilt or anxiety , creating a relaxed home atmosphere , encouraging the child 's full development however slow it is , making use of the best educational facilities available and providing a stable , reassuring , affectionate home , then such a child might well not be severely handicapped by the disability , but grow up relatively independent , sociable and self-confident . |
| 29 | But glue up as little as possible at this stage for ease of working ; ie. the back rather than the whole chair . |
| 30 | They needed two wickets in the final over but picked up only one as Hightown held out at 110–9 . |