Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact there 's one that , a daughter of one , lives up way somewhere . |
| 2 | Raider beats up widow aged 99 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lack of funding holds up railway upgrading |
| 8 | Acid scare holds up freight train |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | In addition , H pylori eradication speeds up ulcer healing and is associated with healing of previously refractory ulcers . |
| 11 | As Prest and Turvey ( 1965 , p. 688 ) state : ‘ Construction of a fast motorway , which itself speeds up traffic and reduces accidents , may lead to more congestion or more accidents on feeder roads if they are left unimproved . ’ |
| 12 | Sun wo n't let go of the advantages of its own technology , which include font maker technology originally from its 1988 acquisition of Folio Inc ( UX No 198 ) which speeds up font design , especially when big-alphabet Japanese , Korean , Taiwan and Chinese applications are involved . |
| 13 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 14 | As medical staffing budgets are finite any increase in the number of career registrars and senior registrars uses up money that would otherwise be available for expanding the number of consultants . |
| 15 | The Meien valley road climbs up west from Wassen through varied alpine landscape including tunnels , through one of which it traverses the Susten pass summit ( 2,224m , 7,295ft ) . |
| 16 | He started down under but he definitely prefers up top . |
| 17 | New Eagle Trust chief shakes up boardroom |
| 18 | Thus the health , age and water distribution — water shows up black-can be determined . |
| 19 | At the vets in an X-RAY shows up letter three , |
| 20 | Car bomb blows up president after only 17 days in office Arab League close to despair Lebanon leader killed . |
| 21 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 22 | Feud win Doc ends up loser |
| 23 | The 16-tonnes Shear Pack is the remotely controlled machine which cuts up fuel assemblies ready for the next stage in reprocessing , the chemical separation of the various elements . |
| 24 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 25 | ‘ Sally goes up West , does she ? ’ |
| 26 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 27 | Well really , what I 'm trying to tell the children is that plants need water , it drinks up water in order to live . |
| 28 | Life in the guise of the crime-and-punishment process snatches up hunter and hunted into the contradictions and cruelties and deceits and frailties which are , in a word , life — not the whole of life of course , but life . |
| 29 | Keith Rodwell , Ipswich Witches ' commercial manager , shuts up shop after last night 's match with Wolverhampton was rained off . |
| 30 | We have a marketing executive who signs up golf clubs . |