Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is far from obvious in snowy conditions , and attempts to go up form the stance are forced off left . |
| 2 | And then , from down below , an enraged roaring swelled up to fill the staircase . |
| 3 | Excitement is high at St Michael 's School , Billingham , at the prospect of Jamie Pollock and Sean Gregan turning up to launch the school 's 1992 year book . |
| 4 | In addition to compensation received under an out of court settlement , as a result of litigation or from insurers , in the case of such terrible incidents as the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , there will usually be special funds set up to assist the suffering . |
| 5 | Ellwood saw her eyes roll up to show the whites . |
| 6 | The big cities , New York , London , and Liverpool even , can afford to have units set up to encourage the production of films and videos and so on in their areas , in fact there was a report in last Thurs thirtieth of December 's Shropshire Star about Liverpool 's office . |
| 7 | Next week posters of striker Ian Wright go up to fill the gap left by Gary Lineker 's departure for Japan . |
| 8 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 9 | The second half was even more of a grab-bag than the first , the suspicion growing in Jude as she watched that the parody and pastiche was a smoke-screen put up to cover the creators ' embarrassment at their own sincerity . |
| 10 | He probably will not sleep in the unlikely event of the ghost of mass murderess Mary Ann Cotton showing up to see the graves of her victims . |
| 11 | And the very opposite processes obtain : instead of cold rock being forced down , hot rock springs up to fill the void between the two separating plates . |
| 12 | One is to settle for being a minority government , and hope to collect enough support each time a parliamentary vote comes up to win the day and stay in office . |
| 13 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 14 | Erm if a window 's been smashed , then we 'll we 'll get the window boarded up to secure the flat the best possible way . |
| 15 | Maggie woke up to hear the sound of voices , one of which was raised in anger , John 's , she now realized . |
| 16 | The tiny village of East Prawle has enjoyed a tourist boom as visitors turned up to view the wreck — and take home a memento . |
| 17 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 18 | In conventional trials set up to assess the efficacy of a new drug , the drug is given to a group of patients suffering from a particular illness , and the effects are compared with those obtained in a matched group of patients given a dummy ( or placebo ) drug . |
| 19 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 20 | The Secret Committee which Alexander set up to consider the matter also played for time . |
| 21 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 22 | The ballroom looked beautiful but when Sir Basil Feldman stood up to give the opening address at the Conservative Conference , though his projection was fine and his microphone working , half his audience had difficulty hearing , and a third were hearing twice . |
| 23 | The ‘ substantial case ’ for compensation was underlined yesterday by the local authority co-ordinating committee set up to represent the interest of councils which lost money . |
| 24 | The players will form part of a six man committee set up to oversee the Subscription Scheme which chairman Wallace Mercer hopes will entice fans to help pay for the renovations . |
| 25 | Lord Justice Higgins was appointed as a county court judge in 1971 and in 1975 he became a member of a special committee set up to review the Emergency Provisions Act . |
| 26 | Carrie got up to bring the union man some more tea and when she returned with two filled mugs she sat down heavily . |
| 27 | Penry got up to take the trays . |
| 28 | Polonium was found on air filters set up to monitor the Windscale cloud in Harwell , Oxfordshire and in the Netherlands . |
| 29 | Last year the UK Government gave £9m to two international organisations set up to limit the population in China and Tibet , he said . |
| 30 | Rix shapes up to cross the ball to the far post , Lukic moves to cover , Rix instead clips ( not powefully ) along the ground round the wall . |