Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From one angle , it could be merely resting , yet from another , the crushed corpse seems to sum up man 's relationship with flies perfectly . |
| 2 | Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions . |
| 3 | In general Golding built up Piggy 's character by only stressing his bad points , so that Piggy could get full sympathy from the reader . |
| 4 | A large carafe of wine was on their table and Andrée filled up Flavia 's glass from time to time . |
| 5 | Evelyn desperately wanted to clean up Lizzy 's room for her but Kate had forbidden her to touch it . |
| 6 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 7 | Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back . |
| 8 | Graeme Fowler and Gatting each scored double centuries in the sweltering heat of the Chepauk Stadium to set up England 's victory in 1985 . |
| 9 | We may therefore sum up Robertson 's order in respect of Yugoslavs as follows . |
| 10 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 11 | Annie considered that Ann Butler should step in and make up Sarah 's mind for her . |
| 12 | ‘ Marginally , perhaps , but I always come by the street and pick up uncle 's paper from the newsagent on my way . ’ |
| 13 | Unaccountably , a tide of colour crept up Juliet 's neck into her cheeks . |
| 14 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 15 | However , Sidhu and Mohammed Azharuddin then set up India 's victory with a scintillating stand of 175 in only 29 overs . |
| 16 | However , Sidhu and Mohammed Azharuddin then set up India 's victory with a scintillating stand of 175 in only 29 overs . |
| 17 | He could only have shored up Labour 's establishment in Scotland and Wales by fragmenting its UK establishment , and betraying the north of England component . |
| 18 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 19 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 20 | She looked up Andrew 's number in her address book , hoping he was not already on his way to London . |
| 21 | I looked up Dana 's name in the telephone book , and , with wildly beating heart called the number . |
| 22 | Then came a review which made a bonfire of all the others and lit up Burton 's name in flames in the English theatre of the day . |
| 23 | One morning , Claude , the French maître d' , ran out of oranges and had to top up Dustin 's glass with some of the tinned variety . |
| 24 | We shall write up Newton 's equation for the case when the force is provided by an electric field and friction is present |
| 25 | To say that this sums up Turkey 's attitude as a whole would nevertheless be untrue . |
| 26 | He sums up Revie 's reign by saying ; ‘ He enjoyed ‘ dishing it out ’ but could n't take the pressure when the tide turned . |
| 27 | Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday . |
| 28 | Some just stayed in London The " Owl and the Pussycat " rowed up Regent 's Canal in a donated boat while the " Quaffing Quartet " completed the monopoly board of London , mainly on foot , and " Bridge the Gap " rode tandems across 20 London bridges . |
| 29 | Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll cost , ’ said Lloyd , weighing up Tel 's wallet with his X-ray vision . |