Example sentences of "up the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 2 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 3 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 4 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 5 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 6 | He smiled , then got up , moving across to fetch a small towel to mop up the ch'a , a brush to gather up the tiny pieces of broken porcelain . |
| 7 | She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated . |
| 8 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 9 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 10 | It is formed when the sun 's ultraviolet radiation breaks up the two atoms of oxygen molecules into single atoms . |
| 11 | Remove the fitting and thoroughly clean up the two ends of pipe with wire wool , before smearing on flux and putting on a new fitting . |
| 12 | As enzymes they speed up the chemical reactions of life . |
| 13 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 14 | Somehow that incident sums up the Corinthian surroundings of British rowing — the sport that won Great Britain two Olympic gold medals last summer . |
| 15 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 16 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 17 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 18 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |
| 19 | She saw the only viable feminist film practice to be one that breaks up the familiar structures of visual pleasure , thus exposing and problematising the habitual violence which is the male gaze . |
| 20 | Indeed , one of the main sources of growth of the small SLF union following its foundation in 1981 was its willingness to take up the individual grievances of the workforce , very much in the tradition of the vertical union of the Franco era . |
| 21 | Statues were pointed at and the shattered grand piano from the drawing-room in the hope that they might help , if only a little , to shore up the weakest banks of soil . |
| 22 | Maine summed up the crucial developments of human history in his famous formula of the ‘ movement of the progressive societies from Status to Contract ’ . |
| 23 | Plot and join up the following sets of points and name the shapes you have drawn . |
| 24 | Plot and join up the following sets of points . |
| 25 | Ahead a kiosk , fashioned in the manner of a tartan fairground booth , offered up the tantalizing fragrances of fried bacon and freshly brewed coffee . |
| 26 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 27 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 28 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 29 | By making it hard to put up the tall blocks of flats of the sort that span the skylines of most capitals , the government condemns Tokyo to low-rise , cramped housing . |
| 30 | These ‘ gorses ’ filled up the odd corners of parishes , and may be quickly spotted on the Ordnance map . |