Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear .
2 The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up .
3 A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean .
4 One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores .
5 But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic .
6 On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends .
7 She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze .
8 From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations .
9 The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier .
10 On the platform he picks up the local rumours .
11 Otherwise , it rounds up the usual suspects : The Jaynettes ‘ Sally Go Round The Roses ’ , various dance songs and an impersonation of The Newbeats ' ‘ Bread And Butter ’ in ‘ Peaches ‘ N ’ Cream ’ .
12 Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer .
13 The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life .
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