Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 2 | And in fact there 's one that , a daughter of one , lives up way somewhere . |
| 3 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 4 | Raider beats up widow aged 99 |
| 5 | This is indeed exactly what Moll does throughout the play , and especially when she beats up Laxton . |
| 6 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 7 | Sywell-based Sloane Helicopters Ltd , which regularly clocks up record annual sales of the Robinson R22 helicopter , has been appointed UK distributor for the forthcoming four-seat R44 . |
| 8 | Mrs Jeryl Whitelock ( a good friend of Convocation ) presented Sir Michael Bishop and Ed Parker , who heads up CAMPUS made a very humorous introduction of Duncan Nichol , chief of the N.H.S. who had a mind-blowing multibillion pounds to spend . |
| 9 | Branding is headed up by Graham Bird ; publications is under the charge of Philip Holmes ; user membership is managed by George Schaffner ; testing is controlled by James de Raeve while Mike Lambert heads up specifications and technical membership . |
| 10 | Kirkpatrick heads up Berlitz |
| 11 | Lori Keating , who was the MEDIA programme UK press consultant in 1989 , and who now heads up Mediation UK , will be the seminar 's main speaker . |
| 12 | BT rings up £1bn with US sell off |
| 13 | ‘ I hear that anyone who rings up Elizabeth Bowen in the morning gets a pretty sharp retort . |
| 14 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |
| 15 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |
| 16 | BILL GATES FRIMS UP PRICES FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 17 | Tones up arms , shoulders and stomach . |
| 18 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 19 | The Black and Ambers ' pack steamroller on as prop Malcolm Sibthorpe ( in possession ) holds up Bridgend before releasing scrum-half David Llewellyn . |
| 20 | Non-compliance with Security Council 's resolutions holds up UNESCO mission |
| 21 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 22 | Acid scare holds up freight train |
| 23 | This concept refers to the way ideology covers up contradictions and how it legitimizes by treating human social relations as things . |
| 24 | This means that the feeding of nestlings has to be much more intensive , and parent birds must work almost round the clock to raise a brood successfully before the icy hand of autumn sends insects into hibernation , covers up seeds and vegetation with ice and snow , or sends the fish out into deeper water . |
| 25 | The problem here is that as a $4,300 box it 's fitted with only 207Mb external disk and 16Mb internal memory , barely enough to handle the Solaris 2.1 operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space and prefers 24Mb minimum . |
| 26 | Material is continually arriving deep within the mass of dead-looking rock , however , and the pressure of this imperceptibly forces up spines of solid lava which rise in jagged battlements along the crest of the dome . |
| 27 | It speeds up graphics applications by enabling X terminals to manipulate images locally , and includes image rendition facilities supporting bitonal , grayscale and colour images . |
| 28 | Other SmartMath features include symbolic/numeric optimisation which simplifies expressions before they are calculated and so speeds up calculations , and live symbolics which trigger the program to evaluate expressions symbolically , using all previous definitions in the document . |
| 29 | This speeds up calculations , reduces memory requirements and often lets you use narrower columns , so you can fit more on-screen . |
| 30 | Eradication of H pylori speeds up ulcer healing , with a six week healing rate of 84.9% compared with 60% in patients with persistent H pylori infection ( p=0.0148 ) . |