Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 2 | All of the administrative systems developed on behalf of the modular course have been designed and tested in-house , beginning with a simple program for pre-enrolment information and student progress on a microcomputer in 1972 and leading up to the large and sophisticated management system described in Chapter 7 . |
| 3 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 4 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 5 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 6 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 7 | She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself . |
| 8 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 9 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 10 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 11 | The first contains a few records , so collect them and slide down the ice into the water , this is extremely easy so just use the map to reach the room containing the concert poster , records and a ‘ ? ’ ( worth 50 points ) , grab 'em all and move up to the extra life , then to the ladder and get the heart if you need it , walk right , go up the ladder and down the other side , pick up the crate and jump into the water . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure with all that air inside it from the balls , ’ explained Endill , ‘ It will eat a ball too many and float up into the sky for all to see . ’ |
| 13 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 14 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 15 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 16 | The bulk of remaining works consists of beach clearance and removal of access roads , concrete finishing and tidying up of the ECB between MHs 14 and 21 and landscaping at Outfall 1 and hte stretch MH24 to MH27 . |
| 17 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 18 | I sat on my bed feeling like the man who got drunk and woke up in the French foreign legion . |
| 19 | We were both thrown down and began to roll across the deck , but I was on my feet first and climbed up into the sails , hand over hand . |
| 20 | Once the interlining has been locked in , the two layers of fabric can be treated as one and made up in the same way . |
| 21 | He had a pale face , deep blue eyes , hair darker and straighter than hers , and a mouth which curved and turned up at the corners in an almost feminine way . |
| 22 | Make sure that the ladder you are working on is secure and put up at the correct angle ( 1 metre out for every 4 metres up the wall ) . |
| 23 | This is positive and increases up to the next ex dividend date , at which point the dirty price falls by the present value of the amount of the coupon payment . |
| 24 | Why exactly the authorities wish to deprive so many thousand people of their bread and butter when the becak is cheap , pollution-free and makes up for the deficiencies in mass transit , is a mystery . |