Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 2 | One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times . |
| 3 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
| 4 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 5 | well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing |
| 6 | There 's a castle , and a cable car that soars up the mountains to an area that has been dubbed ‘ the botanical gardens of Italy ’ . |
| 7 | MPS HAVE called on the government to force electricity boards to use the heat that goes up the chimneys of Britain 's power stations . |
| 8 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 9 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 10 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 11 | Pursued further , as a form of enlightenment and emancipation , it opens up the possibilities of critical self-reflection , of seeing one 's central pursuits in a new perspective . |
| 12 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 13 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 14 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 15 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 16 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 17 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 18 | The glass stands silent in the gallery , he wrote , but it burns up the lies of the gallery . |
| 19 | There is chemical pollution discharged into rivers from factories and chemical plants , which clogs up the rivers with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas . |
| 20 | Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature |
| 21 | Reacting with a positive touch Peter Jones weighs up the prospects for the Lib Dems , who meet in Dunoon this weekend |
| 22 | picks up the picks up grandpa |
| 23 | cos it makes a fun funny humming or buzzing noise because it picks up the vibrations through the table otherwise . |
| 24 | In the Nineties we are rediscovering a way of living and dressing which picks up the threads of that decade and updates it . ’ |
| 25 | Well , he collects up the tapes from the tape-recorder and takes them downstairs to Mrs Padmore . |
| 26 | The success in putting behind American bars an odious dictator is all the more remarkable because it also neatly winds up the threads of the Iran-Contra scandal . |
| 27 | This neatly sums up the sources of wealth , external and internal , which paid for the great Acropolis building programme . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's different from England but they 'll soon get used to it ’ often sums up the attitudes of those who play a part in posting staff overseas but who have not lived abroad themselves . |
| 29 | Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies . |
| 30 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |