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 Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 3 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 6 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 10 | On the face of it , this seems like a happy ending that ties up the loose ends . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 13 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 14 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 17 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 20 | The collection of mementos on her mantelpiece sums up the different strands of her life . |
| 21 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 22 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |