Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 18 months training with AA in Chicago , Mr Shiratori returned to Tokyo to help set up the new office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Governor Bill Clinton appears to have sewn up the presidential nomination by winning a plurality in New York on Tuesday , but only after suffering further humiliation . |
| 5 | Paradoxically the threat to their survival posed by reorganization appears to have gingered up the interested members of the dying Kensington , Chelsea and Westminster area authority . |