Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This drives up share prices . |
| 32 | The budget deficit is rising alarmingly as recession cuts revenues and drives up unemployment . |
| 33 | This lesson cost 7 Dons , but no actual money is exchanged — Nara builds up credit by offering other scheme members skills of her own . |
| 34 | The children 's objective is to make sure that Samson survives , builds up experience and gathers items that will help him in his quest , and eventually enable him to complete his mission . |
| 35 | The heart will benefit most from the kind of exercise that builds up stamina — the ability to keep going without gasping for breath . |
| 36 | Walking exercises your legs and buttock muscles and builds up stamina , but a few add-on exercises will really pay dividends — though you might still have trouble standing after the first day on your skis . |
| 37 | Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency . |
| 38 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
| 39 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 40 | This builds up confidence in their own abilities . ’ |
| 41 | This method of cultivation protects the growing plants from late frosts and builds up heat in the soil so that the potatoes are ready to be lifted 2–3 weeks earlier than if they had been grown conventionally . |
| 42 | It creeps up insidiously ; it creeps up step by step ; and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that [ freedom ] has gone … |
| 43 | For example : Sentence Graphics 1 John gets up Stick figure in bed then standing by bed 2 John gets dressed Clothes appear on stick figure 3 John eats breakfast food on breakfast table disappears 4 John gets the bus to Stick figure leaves house , school waits at bus stop , is collected by bus 5 He plays football in the Stick boys play football yard Example 4 : parts of speech . |
| 44 | As the train gets up speed , does the driver 's watch run faster , slower , or the same as that of the guard travelling in the last carriage ? |
| 45 | Such blindness distorts truth ; such political irresponsibility stores up trouble for the future . |
| 46 | Sewage sludge stores up trouble |
| 47 | Oil company officials said that they were excited at the new possibilities which opens up territory equivalent in size to the oil-producing state of Texas . |
| 48 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the NorthWest and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 49 | He said it opens up Teesside as an area for inward investment from the North-West and Leeds and will help expand the catchment area for the new universities . |
| 50 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 51 | NT 's SHADOW FORCES UNIX BODIES TO SEEK COMMON GROUND , AS UI OPENS UP TECHNOLOGY SELECTION PROCESS |
| 52 | He backs up Mill 's claim that he was acting in self defence . |
| 53 | Retail banking ties up capital and property and staff in large numbers and in the wrong places . |
| 54 | In short , while it is good for third party service providers , it is administratively inefficient for investors , brokers and companies and ties up capital needlessly in the securities system . |
| 55 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 56 | But she now takes up music rather late in her education . |
| 57 | IT TAKES UP GARDENING . |
| 58 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 59 | First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake . |
| 60 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |