Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] up [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 2 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 3 | No market advisers could ever have dreamed up a better ploy because Laura was only enunciating theories she had always believed in . |
| 4 | Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying . |
| 5 | He might have put up a good show the other day , but that was because he was frightened . |
| 6 | No , I 'd have thought he 'd have put up a better show than that . |
| 7 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |