Example sentences of "just [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special tube shapes for the rocket are achieved by baking cake mixture in empty food cans just make up the required raw cake quantity as shown in the chart on page 12 . |
| 2 | ‘ Just picked up an odd-looking customer . |
| 3 | Is he just opening up a bad |
| 4 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 5 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 6 | Just cover up the hundred ohms , let's take it out of the circuit . |
| 7 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 8 | ‘ We just couple up the combined battery powers of the Ariadne and the Kilcharran . |
| 9 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 10 | It is , therefore , worth bearing in mind that if you want a new tank , and have a friend who has just set up a new fish-house , you might do well to order through him/her … |
| 11 | And Kode has just set up a new marketing company , Kamtronics , to sell all high-volume printed circuit boards made in the Far East to the UK and Europe . |
| 12 | It just props up the underlying immune system . ’ |
| 13 | Not just patching up the old broken down life and saying something like this , from now onwards I 'm gon na go to church , I 'm gon na read my bi , I 'm gon na be a Christian ! |
| 14 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 15 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 16 | You know , they might just get up a little way and then some bureaucracy knocks them down again and they 're back where they started . |
| 17 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought perhaps this year , if I just rustle up a few quiches , buy some French bread — ’ |
| 19 | But , her husband 's just sta , or the boyfriend , the boyfriend 's just started up a new company |
| 20 | Have you ever been tempted to put a couple of booby trap techniques in there on purpose , just to screw up the poor guy transcribing it ? |
| 21 | G Chairman , if I could just pick up a deliberate accuracy rather than |
| 22 | Just put up a few pictures and so on . |
| 23 | Instead , I just lit up a straight fag and shared it with her , Bogart style . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 25 | Yes you would you just wonder whether Forest back four might just push up a little bit higher and let the ball carry through to the keeper every time . |
| 26 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
| 27 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |