Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 2 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 3 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 4 | Fedelma has only started up the business since beginning the course and has found it a ‘ great practical help ’ . |
| 5 | Q : Have you ever considered just hanging up the business ? |
| 6 | When Weissbräu has finally mopped up the market for popular , easily-drinkable wheat beers , it will be glad to have such tasty , characterful brews as a specialist line . |
| 7 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 8 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 9 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 10 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 12 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 13 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 14 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 15 | DEC has also set up the Object Database Assessment Team to provide consultancy to customers deciding between an object database or a traditional approach for an application . |
| 16 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 17 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 18 | The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that : |
| 19 | Nonetheless he feels ‘ the poor economic situation has really speeded up the move towards more openness . |
| 20 | John Ritchie , Staff Development TVEI Co-ordinator , has now followed up the audit by inviting all schools in identify developments that should be undertaken centrally to allow these gaps to be filled . |
| 21 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 22 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 23 | We moved fast back up the stairs , along the passage and back down into the lobby of the Regal Arms , trying not to run . |
| 24 | The museum has recently set up the Jewellery Discovery Centre and is also planning to spend around £2.4m refurbishing Soho House , once owned by the eighteenth-century industrialist and inventor Matthew Boulton . |
| 25 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 27 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 28 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 29 | Vendelin Gajdusek flicked one last look at her , leaving her with no idea whether he approved or disapproved , and , pausing only to pick up the dog 's lead , he went to the kitchen door with her . |
| 30 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |