Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the conifers would have long since given up their job as nurses to the beeches and ended in a timber yard . |
| 2 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , that boyo had a much better trick up his sleeve . |
| 4 | I was pleased to be invited to contribute a foreword for this new journal on technology transfer , not least because its title — Competitive Edge — so aptly sums up what we all want British industry to achieve . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I only just made up my mind , ’ replied Rosie . |
| 6 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the very next day that you so inconveniently smashed up my car — ’ |
| 8 | The point here is not merely that full employment creates a scarcity of labour and so automatically puts up its price , not such that the unions negotiating with already willing and , indeed , anxious buyers would remain relatively passive as buyers bid against one another . |
| 9 | ‘ Like hell , ’ Graham replied good-humouredly then picked up his holdall and followed Laidlaw into the corridor , closing the door behind him . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ Leitzig retorted defensively then held up his hands apologetically . |
| 11 | ‘ And , as you say , Master , how were they lured to their deaths and why so meekly give up their lives ? ’ |
| 12 | This was the most encouragement the boy got there , and it proved not enough to pep up his dismal sales figures . |
| 13 | ‘ Not enough to play up my ulcer , of course , but I do just tick over . |
| 14 | ‘ Easy enough to pick up I think , sir . ’ |
| 15 | They were Thin Lizzy 's actual guitar amps from a hire firm , and they just sounded so good because they were just so beaten up you could just feel them when you played . ’ |
| 16 | A three-man delegation is heading for Geneva to deliver the Scottish FA 's appeal and Roxburgh said : ‘ It is really important to have vocal backing at Hampden , not only to stir up our guys but to put San Marino under pressure . |
| 17 | This not only opens up what is going on , but takes us forward as well . |
| 18 | His wife must not only train up her children and maids in fear of God but attend to the wounds and sores of parishioners with her own hands . |
| 19 | Second , she has not only cleaned up her act , she seems to have adopted a remarkably apt late twentieth-century camouflage : from Baltic peasant to stereotypical dyke 's delight is a transition not normally catered for in those women 's magazines that offer readers new looks for new lifestyles . |
| 20 | Your budget plan will not only tidy up your current financial position , but will also give you some indication of how best to use the extra resources it has hopefully produced . |
| 21 | You 're building up a knowledge base , you 're not just building up lots of odd facts like you know , how many people live in China , or |
| 22 | Although famed for rattling off statistics on the recession , rather than the ‘ vision thing ’ , his Sovereignty Lecture for Charter 88 at the start of the election campaign set out some useful parameters for the debate that must now take place : on citizenship and community , ‘ not just tidying up our constitution but transforming it ’ . |
| 23 | That just about sized up their differences , Ruth thought miserably . |
| 24 | ‘ That just about sums up something which is a short term political advantage being given priority over the fate of the planet . |
| 25 | Yep , that just about sums up what we do on the way to the cairn , hence the use of the word climb in trying to convey to a companion exactly what it is you expect them to do when they get out of the car . |
| 26 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 27 | It could not even make up its mind . |
| 28 | Even while the various rugby groups in South Africa are heading for unification , the New Zealand Rugby Football Union still can not quite make up its mind how quickly it should bridge the gap which has existed since the tumultuous Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1981 . |
| 29 | Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now . |
| 30 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |