Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 2 | 500 up : A food safety registration scheme in Middlesbrough signs up its 500th customer today Chinese restaurant The Jade Garden . |
| 3 | If your capital or income goes up you may be required to contribute a greater share of the costs of your care . |
| 4 | Suddenly one of the best-known bandits in existence turns up , parks nearer us , and starts giving unknowing grins . |
| 5 | And the , the pressure for change builds up and as the changes begin to happen , new values , new attitudes become dominant which in turn affects how people see things so they become interested in yet greater changes . |
| 6 | The Jam and Lewis soundtrack powers up some fairly physical action sequences , and there is a surprising amount of killings . |
| 7 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 8 | Tony Smith 's ( non-flying ) Flying Flea lines up with the C100 below to make a pair of early private pilot machines . |
| 9 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 10 | " There be our Martha lying on " er bed of sickness while her sister sits up in her fancy house twiddling her thumbs ! |
| 11 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 12 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 13 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 14 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 15 | The West builds up its metals mountain |
| 16 | Late one night she forgets to turn off the gas after heating up some left-over mutton vindaloo , and a loud explosion rocks the mansion as Tracey 's beautiful designer kitchen goes up in smoke . |
| 17 | The lavvu goes up , the canvas at the bottom held down by shovelled snow . |
| 18 | Street verité rubs up against fashion , and interleaved among some impressively fat advertising are columns of tittle-tattle , industry news and those inevitable lists . |
| 19 | For those of us who , after the Second World War , sat riveted to cinema screens up and down the country as we watched the opening up of the concentration camps , watched the piled-up heaps of dead bodies , our whole perception of civilized behaviour was outraged . |
| 20 | Climb onto a platform and your weight sets the contraption in motion the deck rides up and down simulating ocean swells , the soundtrack plays the moans of whale songs , and a film projection shows an opening and closing hand that approaches and recedes in wavelike sequence on the now-rotating screens . |
| 21 | But as far as this security expert is concerned , unless Oxford University tightens up on security , and fast , more of its treasures will inevitably be stolen . |
| 22 | sta sta staff comment comes out of there and that bit goes up then you have general skills and abilities and then below that you have a wider box which just says comments which will include a staff comment and may include a pupil comment as well cos because it 's signed by both at the bottom . |
| 23 | Navratilova signs up with Lotto |
| 24 | At the cut-off time for the coursework an electronic drawbridge goes up : students are no longer allowed to write to their directories . |
| 25 | If the retailer builds up a good relationship with his customers they will keep coming back — and maybe tell their friends . |
| 26 | This high level is a primary risk in heart disease , since excess cholesterol builds up a sticky silt-like deposit in the arteries , impeding the passage of blood and increasing the pressure on the heart . |
| 27 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 28 | As money goes up , er , you can you can negotiate figures |
| 29 | An ‘ atrophied preface ’ , typically at the end of the boom , contains a mock Whitmanesque statement of stylistic plenty where Burroughs whips up its visual and aural multiplicity : ‘ This book spills off the page in all directions , kaleidoscope of vistas , medley of tunes and street noises , farts and riot yipes … ’ |
| 30 | As training programmes are made available , and on-the-job experience builds up , it is anticipated that both maintenance and operations staff will take on a wider range of tasks . |