Example sentences of "just [verb] up the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Just match up the famous daughters ( right ) with their equally famous mothers on the entry form , by putting a letter in each box . |
| 4 | Just cover up the hundred ohms , let's take it out of the circuit . |
| 5 | ‘ We just couple up the combined battery powers of the Ariadne and the Kilcharran . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It just props up the underlying immune system . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |