Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath . |
| 2 | But throughout his unrelenting , Rabelaisian first novel , Jonathan Meades is hard on his brainchildren , ludic with his fictional strategies , and generous with his lexiphanic complexities : wide-ranging , courting the surreal , and buoyed up with diabotic turpiloquence , Pompey reads like something by John Irving with Tourette 's syndrome . |
| 3 | Eighty-five per cent in special assistance to the Länder Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as to Land Berlin to cover their general financial requirements and divided up among these Länder in proportion to their number of inhabitants , excluding the inhabitants of Berlin ( West ) , and |
| 4 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 5 | According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ . |
| 6 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 7 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 8 | Oil demand will grow by less than 10% and make up about one-third of consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 9 | Women are severely under-represented in the urban trade union movement and make up under one-quarter of the total membership . |
| 10 | It uses Advanced Micro 's patented programmable macrocell technology and offers up to 16 product terms per output . |
| 11 | ‘ Let the Council clear it up , ’ he said , and doubled up in silent mirth at the thought of flouting authority . |
| 12 | Cheltenham & Gloucester has launched a no-strings-attached , fully portable five-year deal fixed at 7.75 per cent , available on an interest-only or repayment basis on mortgages and remortgages up to 90 per cent of property value . |
| 13 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 14 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 15 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 16 | As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) . |
| 17 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 18 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 19 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 20 | Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at . |
| 21 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 22 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 23 | The paraglider itself is rectangular and made up of numerous cells or pockets running from the front to the rear of the wing . |
| 24 | The tunnel was seven feet in diameter and made up of cast-iron segments with its own air-conditioning plant , lighting and heating . |
| 25 | It is 2.4 m in diameter , and made up of three vertical blades which rotate in the river 's current , connected to a generator . |
| 26 | These blinds not only offer a practical window treatment for kitchens and bathrooms , but can also look attractive in a sitting-room or bedroom when combined with curtains and made up in co-ordinated or matching fabric . |
| 27 | They had both animals ready and saddled up in half an hour , which was as well , because five minutes later , on the stroke of half past seven , Lord Deverill himself arrived , accompanied by four couples of hounds . |
| 28 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 29 | Bayfield was the senior ‘ pro ’ of the pack , and lived up to that responsibility nobly . |
| 30 | Everyone worked with a will to equip the expedition and load up with enough food , petrol , water and ammunition for three to four weeks in the field . |