Example sentences of "be [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 2 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 5 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 6 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 7 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 8 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 10 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 12 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |
| 13 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 14 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 15 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |
| 16 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 17 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 18 | TWO heartbroken families may be bringing up the wrong babies . |
| 19 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
| 20 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 21 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 22 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 23 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 24 | . I 'm going up the fair on er Saturday . |
| 25 | I reckon those people 'll be going up the wrong way . |
| 26 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 27 | This space thus contains all the elements of the assembly and can be reflected up the hierarchical structure to a level at which assemblies are being considered . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , she allowed herself to be helped up the high step and onto a bunk opposite the one on which Robbie was now lying … |
| 29 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 30 | However , I received the impression that the society was more interested in a scheme for a new RUC complaints procedure and that it was not anticipated that it would be taking up the Black affair in a major way . |