Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And he scrapes up all the soil , you see this , well Lindsay has n't got any soil , she 's just got grass , so obviously it go , comes round ! |
2 | To convert the pre-1975 national insurance stamps to the new system , the DHSS adds up all the stamps paid and credited before 1975 , and divides them by 50 . |
3 | To cash up , the assistant adds up all the contents of the till ( including gift vouchers , cheques etc ) and fills out a cashing up slip like the one below . |
4 | It uses up all the gaps in between the gaps . |
5 | The computer inside the printer builds up all the elements in its own memory and prints them . |
6 | All the children : bright , kempt Juliette , who hears poems at home and whose eyes never leave Beth 's face ; and Jamie , whose ‘ mother does n't care ’ ( as Jimmy Adair put it in a John Walsh poem ) and ‘ who stays up half the night , you see ’ ( Walsh 1960 ) . |
7 | And you know the bit where erm she 's in bed and the hand comes out from behind the pillow and it goes over the back of her head and she goes , she goes , she was so cute she goes , she goes , what a pile of shit ! and when , you know when she cleans up all the cornflakes ? |
8 | Defence now takes up half the frequency spectrum , with broadcasting and telecommunications using a large slice . |
9 | cos it , cos it like takes up half the tape anyway |
10 | When she drops the last bead , she picks up all the beads in that last hole ( both hers and her opponent 's if that 's the case ) , and continues to drop them , hole by hole , around the board . |
11 | Beyond this a third detector picks up all the energy of hadrons — particles like protons and mesons that are built from quarks . |
12 | The embrace then breaks and the male rounds up all the eggs and stores them in the nest . |
13 | Also , some galaxies appear to have a black hole at their centre — a hole that swallows up all the stars that come near it . |
14 | Good , good , because that that comes up all the time . |
15 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |