Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 2 | Serves him right for sucking up to them — being the Thinking Person 's Tory , and all that , eh ? |
| 3 | RIGHT After jumping up , this dog is being scolded for his behaviour . |
| 4 | ‘ This is great for me , ’ admits Kylie , ‘ I ca n't thank those people enough for turning up . |
| 5 | Thank you very much for turning up on time . |
| 6 | Piers sent his love and was all for going up to London that minute to see the painting . |
| 7 | Your child fails to complete a task you have set , e.g. he fails to eat all his vegetables , she wanders away halfway through picking up her toys . |
| 8 | As I mentioned , the ebony has a greasy nature , so after cleaning up and before polishing , I ‘ washed ’ the tables with thinners to prevent bad adhesion of the lacquer . |
| 9 | Obesity increased equally in all groups over the 20 years or so of follow up , despite sustained medical advice but without help from a dietitian . |
| 10 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 11 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 12 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 13 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 14 | But this has not been matched by an increased commitment to capital expenditure and Mr Jordan expressed concern that while most member companies had weathered the recession ‘ surviving companies are probably not investing sufficiently in keeping up with technological progress ’ . |
| 15 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 16 | With that , he turned and strode on , speaking as he did so without looking up , ‘ So if you would kindly — ’ |
| 17 | Presidents are obliged to tread carefully ; as we noted , they are expected to lead , but they must do so without stirring up age-old resentments and suspicions . |
| 18 | Ratios should be spaced so on changing up , the engine operates in the area of steep torque rise . |
| 19 | John Stork , until recently also an entirely British-owned search firm , has established a significant niche in the British headhunting business but , unlike GKR , it has concentrated less on building up a large volume of business in London and more on expanding into Europe . |
| 20 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 21 | Mr Waigel hoped to go to Munich ; Mr Kohl would move someone better at adding up the costs of German unity to the finance ministry . |
| 22 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 23 | Maintaining the storage system would be the clear responsibility of the CSSU , ensuring quality in a number of ways , eg by chasing up holders of master files , by inserting new objects into files , and by making secondary copies of files and documents . |
| 24 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 25 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 26 | Only by living up to Responsible Care and satisfying society 's continuously growing demands can the industry improve its image . |
| 27 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 28 | It is only by balancing up all the factors , getting the degree of difficulty perceived on all sides , that the whole picture becomes clear . |
| 29 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 30 | We will measure up to tomorrow 's requirements only by measuring up to today 's . |