Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 2 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 3 | Alan Smith ( Thornaby ) beat the 70-string field ledgering bread to pick up a trio of chub totalling 7.12.0 from the willows on the buff length . |
| 4 | They walked back into the main bar and found Knocker mopping up the bar . |
| 5 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 6 | THE new British motor racing season moves up a gear at Silverstone today with the first big meeting of the year — and five young Ulster drivers will be part of it . |
| 7 | At each stage , if they pass , the employees name badge moves up a colour and their pay increases accordingly . |
| 8 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 9 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 10 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 11 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 12 | Both machines should have cue/review to speed up the location and setting of edit-points , this being the most time-consuming part of the process . |
| 13 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 14 | Franklin placed his own hopes on the idea that the Westminster Parliament would pass legislation to set up a union . |
| 15 | Is there enough time left in one scene to allow time to set up an Inlay shot using two cameras on the next scene ? |
| 16 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 17 | Rain made a mental note to get Holly to follow up the story next day , she could visualize it leading the column on Friday unless anything better turned up . |
| 18 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 19 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 20 | Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar , drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser . |
| 21 | From the File menu , selecting VIEW opens up a window full of thumbnail representations of the images resident in the current directory . |
| 22 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 23 | The wide , chiselled mouth tilted up a fraction at one side as he detected her dismay . |
| 24 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 25 | Academically , he did reasonably well , picking up three ‘ O ’ levels at the first attempt , then adding three more plus two ‘ A ’ levels before leaving school to take up a trainee manager 's position at Fine Fare supermarkets , continuing his studies on a day-release business studies course . |
| 26 | Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living . |
| 27 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 28 | All I 'm asking is that you take time to weigh up the deal I 'm offering and — Do you have a licence ? ’ |
| 29 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 30 | Det Insp Gordon Williams has recently been involved with raising money to set up a suite in Darlington where child abuse and rape victims can be interviewed in pleasant surroundings . |