Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlucky not to gain selection for the 800m in last year 's Barcelona Olympics , Strang , who ran a ‘ blinder ’ for Scotland in the 1990 Commonwealth Games 4x400 silver medal-winning team in Auckland , has made a remarkable transition up to 1,500m . |
| 2 | Britain 's newest T.V. satellite station , B S B , has announced a star-spangled line up for its launch in April , celebrities such as Mike Smith , naturalist David Bellamy , Juke Box Jury host , Jules Holland , will all be in the forefront of the drive for viewers . |
| 3 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 4 | ‘ Some kids where I lived dug a dead person up , ’ says Dmitry . |
| 5 | Like when we opened opened a ninety Z up and we could n't open that face up , it was hell . |
| 6 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 7 | Cheatering putting a new label up ! |
| 8 | As he spoke , various boys in various kinds of nation costume trooped from the left and right of the stage ; at the same moment , from beneath the stage , Mahmud started to poke a second flag up through the floorboards . |
| 9 | I must have cut a handsome figure up there , black and glossy , and she could hardly fail to have been impressed . |
| 10 | This is a new sales approach , designed to support the industry 's desire to link information technology and business objectives to gain the competitive edge : if a customer wants to increase market share by say 5% over a year , Customer Systems might , for example , agree to take a certain fee up front , and then link subsequent earnings to the achievement of the customer 's business aim . |
| 11 | It is a great accomplishment in singing to take a melodic line up to a position of potential energy , and to hold it there , poised and ready to plunge like a kingfisher . |
| 12 | well this is it , you 've got a good stock up anyway there |
| 13 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 14 | I 've had them stretched once , I wants them stretched again cos I 've got a beautiful ring up there and I never puts them on . |
| 15 | I 've got a little graph up here now one thing about communication and with good communication what you can do is you can actually increase trust and co-operation amongst people . |
| 16 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 17 | Because his lips had opened a brand-new world up to her ? |
| 18 | Not until he had negotiated a sudden hazard up ahead ; then , apparently seeing no reason why she should n't have an answer , he replied , ‘ I 've a brother living in Prague . ’ |
| 19 | Watts continued to plough a lonely furrow up front for Palace and And the YTS striker was nearly rewarded for all his selfless running with a second goal three minutes after the break . |
| 20 | By the time one of them had climbed a little way up , the Bookman had long disappeared . |
| 21 | She 's made a big parcel up in the |
| 22 | The one in town 's got a big sign up in the window now saying as from the 1st April , we will only do methadone prescriptions in between two and five o'clock in the afternoon , right . |
| 23 | She 's had a real spruce up . |
| 24 | Recent investigations of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary have delineated a high-strain zone up to 9 kilometres wide . |