Example sentences of "always [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians . |
| 2 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 3 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
| 4 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 5 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |