Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had keyed up all the radar stations and they would be alerted the moment anything significant was plotted . |
| 2 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 3 | We had a short stop for refreshment , got out the pegs and the skyhook and secured an open krab onto the end of a three foot cheating stick ( which we had carefully hauled up all the way from the woods ) . |
| 4 | Since the times of Victorian patronage , explorations have opened up half a mile of underground passages leading from the floor of the cave , but these later discoveries are for experts only : amateurs should venture no further than the bottom of the steps . |
| 5 | You could do okay you could do that and then you would have used up all the oxygen and you 'd just have nitrogen left , but burning something in a liquid in liquid air is gon na be a bit awkward , it could n't be done . |
| 6 | Continue until you have used up all the filling or wonton skins . |
| 7 | Carry on until you have used up all the batter . |
| 8 | He 's talked about all the various departments , he 's erm used up half a ton of paper and erm I think was the job of the chief officers and the managers of the department . |
| 9 | I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out . |
| 10 | When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill . |
| 11 | He travelled to the meeting for ‘ observation purposes ’ and cheerfully mopped up all the business . |
| 12 | Her temper had worsened since the pups were born , so now she had to be kept tied up all the time in the alcove near the kitchen stove . |
| 13 | ‘ If someone shot that other dog , ’ said Lee , ‘ Caspar would n't have to be locked up all the time . ’ |
| 14 | We were just locked up all the time , with half an hour exercise a day and no books to read . |
| 15 | We 've counted up all the matter we can see , and there 's not enough — only about one tenth what is needed to close the Universe . ’ |
| 16 | Bugs Bunny screaming ‘ Ooooh , Pru-NELLA ! ! ’ can liven up many a telephone answering machine tape . |
| 17 | ‘ Ca n't keep you cooped up all the time , ’ Doyle said , sounding amused . |
| 18 | through her nose , but , so there must of been , she 's alright but her nose is blocked up all the time |
| 19 | Dersingham had added that he 'd had his whisky at ten-thirty and gone up half an hour later . |
| 20 | This is only true when the fish has taken up all the slack of the link and has met considerable resistance from the lead . |
| 21 | Well when you 've finished up all the spaghetti would you like to put a bit of potato on my . |
| 22 | I get dressed up all the time . |