Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I more or less gave up cottaging for a while .
2 Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) .
3 Dip sandwich , both sides , then leave for 30 seconds or so to soak up egg .
4 They argued that some groups can consciously or unconsciously put up barriers to the public discussion of issues .
5 Exploring the terrain or even setting up camp leave too many things wide open .
6 Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school .
7 what 's it here or er whatever or even pick up notes from Edinburgh people
8 ‘ I 've been rather avoiding the flat except to call in once or twice to pick up mail , but I 'd a letter this morning from Rachel .
9 For many UK multinationals , the question has been whether intangibles have been properly exploited to produce UK taxable income ( and thereby mop up ACT ) .
10 This study has of course raised new problems , and thereby opened up avenues for further investigation .
11 The dragons were released whereon the red dragon killed the white and eventually took up residence on the Welsh flag .
12 When she was n't inveighing against cruelty to ponies and disgusting language at Rutshire Polo Club , and furiously ringing up Ricky to complain about Perdita thundering ponies five abreast down Eldercombe High Street , she was writing to Dancer , to grumble about cheeky builders , truculent security guards , and Alsatians chasing her cat , Smudge .
13 When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was .
14 Other SmartMath features include symbolic/numeric optimisation which simplifies expressions before they are calculated and so speeds up calculations , and live symbolics which trigger the program to evaluate expressions symbolically , using all previous definitions in the document .
15 They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out .
16 As a result , the players were sent ahead to the various tournament sites to give clinics to members and generally to whip up interest .
17 The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances .
18 The egg shape is a clue to building in the sense of rhythm when drawing the small birds ; you can practise drawing ovals and thus build up bird shapes .
19 Of course , good melody will sound fine at any tempo , so play slowly and gradually pick up speed .
20 The Cabinet did what it could both to promote talks and also to set up emergency procedures under the Civil Contingency Unit chaired by Merlyn Rees , the beleaguered Home Secretary .
21 It starts from Ealing Broadway in London 's western suburbs , served by London Transport 's Central and District lines and close to the North Circular Road , and also takes up passengers at Gerrards Cross , convenient for the M25 .
22 If you do advertise for a companion it is advisable to use a box number and also to take up references .
23 Obsessed by the need to keep unemployment low they had , according to their conservative critics , pushed up levels of public expenditure and recklessly run up budget deficits without regard to inflation and the difficulties it created .
24 But that 's exactly what 's happened and now fed up villagers are doing something about it .
25 Turnover generated from Unix licences , he says , increased fourfold last year , and now makes up 20% of total revenues .
26 However , they quickly adapted themselves and even picked up snatches of Gaelic much to the amusement of our neighbours who were quite proud of their accomplishment .
27 I do think , however , that we should hit the Enemy in the public world , and even set up outposts and command centres there , as long as we do not forget that the kingdom can not be built as a nation state or a political empire .
28 EMILY MacPeake turned the corner from Merrycrest Avenue into Ashlea Drive and then left up Merrycroft Avenue .
29 George made his Football League debut for the Palace up at Bury — he equalised for us before the break , hit the bar soon after the interval and then set up Ben Bateman for the winner .
30 The idea was to clear large areas of tsetse-infested bush and then set up ranching schemes around permanent waters .
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