Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb -s] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 2 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 3 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 4 | The plan also splits up the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research into two units from next month , with the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh being separated from the Babraham Institute , Cambridge . |
| 5 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 6 | The very act of brainstorming often throws up the structure of the answer as well as the main points which it is necessary to cover . |
| 7 | Phil now takes up the story . |
| 8 | STRANGELY , THE climax of the Dollars trilogy is a prequel to the others , set during the Civil War and showing how Clint Eastwood 's Man With No Name gradually picks up the props — the poncho , the sheepskin jacket , the cigar — that mark his identity in the other films . |
| 9 | At the end of each day 's fishing , the top name goes to the bottom , and your name automatically progresses up the list , eventually reaching the top . |
| 10 | It becomes ‘ automatic ’ and an attempt to introspect the components of skilled movement often breaks up the quality of the performance . |
| 11 | Alcohol is also supposed to have a ‘ warming up ’ effect , when in fact alcohol actually speeds up the loss of body heat , and can aggravate the problems of hypothermia . |
| 12 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 13 | The user simply lines up the image in the viewfinder of the fixed focus lens and presses the button . |
| 14 | This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast . |
| 15 | In northern Europe , the common badger regularly digs up the nests of wasps and rarely appears to be bothered by their stings . |
| 16 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 17 | This statement exactly sums up the quality and feeling of Franck 's music . |
| 18 | Dan again takes up the story . |
| 19 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 20 | However , the counties have locked themselves into a zero sum game as the competitive drive for success at the playing level , in the belief and expectation that it is this which will increase and sustain revenues , together with accompanying bonus incentives inexorably bids up the price of labour . |
| 21 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 22 | For ‘ Sport ’ AE , a high shutter speed is set automatically and the auto-exposure then opens up the lens iris to suit . |
| 23 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 24 | This this slide really sums up the mission or the goal of , which is the integration of yo all your information resource . |