Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's one who knows how to whip up trouble and find out where you stand . |
| 2 | Mother Francis had shown her how to go up the long windy path behind the convent and pick leaves and wild flowers . |
| 3 | She looked down , realising just how keyed up he was ; how close he had come to snapping at her . |
| 4 | The patient may be placed on his stomach on the floor , and taught how to come up onto all fours , and then to kneel up , so that he can walk on his knees to a chair . |
| 5 | At the same time students will be preparing under supervision the results of their field research for presentation as a dissertation and will be attending classes on how to write up anthropological research . |
| 6 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 7 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't realise it was Lori you were protecting , which only goes to show how mixed up you 'd got me , until the note arrived telling me you had the jade . |
| 9 | He says that they were taught how to creep up on an enemy — quite interesting . |
| 10 | But even with a military background , you do n't know how to rig up bombs . |
| 11 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 12 | Miller never did find out how to set up a covert operation . |
| 13 | A knowledge of how to set up and operate a machine could reduce the likelihood of a breakdown so minimising the time spent on repairs . |
| 14 | Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope . |
| 15 | The first was lack of knowledge about how to set up a system . |
| 16 | Your first prints may involve some trial and error while you learn how to set up the printer . ) |
| 17 | By what unconscious intelligence he also acquired an understanding of British moral pride , and how to set up his own against it , remains a mystery . |
| 18 | In September we showed you how to set up a simple tank as we continued our beginners ' series . |
| 19 | Could you please give me some advice on how to set up a Mbuna community ? |
| 20 | How about a monthly column showing how to set up the ever-expanding range of multi-effects processors to get the sounds made famous by the professionals : eg. Eddie Van Halen 's ‘ brown ’ sound , Brian May 's sound and Nuno Bettencourt 's sound , just to name a few . |
| 21 | Mace declined to comment , other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
| 22 | Mace declined to comment other than to say that ‘ we are in the process of trying to figure out how to set up a separate company . ’ |
| 23 | Last month I showed you how to set up an application so that it could be launched from within Windows . |
| 24 | At a time when it had not yet developed a project portfolio , it was concerned with such questions as how to set up a broadcasting system which would serve society as a whole rather than merely serving governments and the ruling elites . |
| 25 | It is designed , say its publishers , ‘ to help people who want to know how to set up a sound production office and how to make wise decisions about buying print . ’ |
| 26 | We had been taught how to set up a simple charge with detonator and fuse . |
| 27 | Executives need to know how to lay on services that are outside normal agency routine : how to set up a direct marketing operation ; organize an effective exhibition ; or lay on a cabaret at a salesmen 's conference . |
| 28 | The strange fact that the professional practitioners of quantum mechanics can calculate away without worrying about the outcome of the debates about the foundations of their subject is only possible because there is a well-defined set of rules about how to set up the problems and how to do the sums . |
| 29 | Therefore , conducting the experiments often involved little understanding of the theory behind them ; indeed , they often involved equally little understanding about how to set up an experiment to test a theory : |
| 30 | If you 've had the courage and tenacity to run through them all , you 'll have a good grasp of how to set up Windows and its groups and icons , how to manipulate windows ( resizing , closing and so on ) , how to use the File Manager , and much more . |