Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sniffing crossly , she went upstairs herself and lovingly hung up the Persian lamb in the clothes closet . |
| 32 | Certain they had bottled up the Australian patrol , the Japanese searched the town house by house next day , but Laidlaw and his men were long gone . |
| 33 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 34 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 35 | Every time the monitor is powered up the de-gaussing circuit fires up and destroys and/or corrupts all your lovely data that 's being stored right next to the great big degaussing coil surrounding the screen . |
| 36 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |
| 37 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 38 | He had bought up the loss-making Radio Aire in Leeds and Red Rose in Preston , and turned them round . |
| 39 | I knew a self-employed barman by the name of Kenny who , the Christmas before , had thought up the wicked scheme of telling the chestnut-roasters that they had to be licensed street vendors . |
| 40 | Patsy had cleaned the brasses specially , and Mother had tidied up the front garden . |
| 41 | The British — who had dreamed up the Free City idea in the first place — came out of the exercise very badly , while the Dutch and Italians did rather better . |
| 42 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 43 | This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered . |
| 44 | This arises where the tenant has closed the premises prior to the end of the term and has used up the full entitlement to rating relief . |
| 45 | The two Brownies struggled up , and Mary carefully gathered up the burst parcel . |
| 46 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 47 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 48 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 49 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 50 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 51 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 52 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 53 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 54 | Having propped up the Ottoman empire for the latter part of the nineteenth century , Britain and France now set about dismantling it . |
| 55 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 56 | Their movements would have kicked up the fine silt carpet on the bottom of the lake , obscuring vision . |
| 57 | The largest thunderclap of the storm had followed the Prime Minister 's words ‘ Right , gentlemen , this means war ’ , and the subsequent flash of lightning , it was remembered later , had lit up the entire room , despite the blackout curtains . |
| 58 | The one where Sapt had locked up the old woman was empty . |
| 59 | Two years later the Union President , J. G. Greenhough , called up the old world to attack the new : he expounded traditional Calvinism with its high doctrine of church order although he accepted that it had ‘ little favour ’ in 1895 . |
| 60 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |