Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 2 | Blessed with a good audience there 's always a danger of the comics running overtime , and it 's up to me to stretch or speed up the show should the need arise . |
| 3 | Hailed as a kind of dominant world religion , science is a powerful tool some men have used to elevate themselves above other men , women , children , and the plants and animals that make up the world we live in . |
| 4 | In performance mode , each program is treated as a complete effect unit and can be controlled by editing the parameters that make up the program . |
| 5 | The Teacher 's Books explain clearly how to teach each lesson , and how to get the best out of each of the books that make up the course . |
| 6 | Supermarket and delicatessen shelves are often stocked with many interesting tins and bottles of sauces that conjure up the promise of the Orient with their exotic names . |
| 7 | The secret of success in this task is finding the key words that make up the skeleton . |
| 8 | One obvious division is by the independent nations that make up the subcontinent ; the major three are shown in Figure 2.12 . |
| 9 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 10 | You read the reviews , make up your mind and stump up the cash . |
| 11 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 12 | When , in 1124 , the Emperor Henry V planned an invasion , Louis summoned his nobles to Rheims to debate tactics and draw up the battle-lines . |
| 13 | To match the pattern , turn in the side of one width of fabric and line up the pattern with the width to which it will be joined . |
| 14 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 15 | Using the information in 2 above calculate the owners equity and draw up the balance sheet of Transom Trading as at 31 December 1991 . |
| 16 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 17 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 18 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 20 | ‘ If you leave it with me for an hour , I 'll pencil in the vowels and divide up the words at the end of the sentences . ’ |
| 21 | Of course safeguards are necessary for the environment , for local residents , for local communities and for the right to a decent quality of life , so I warmly welcome the transport and works Bill , which will defend the safeguards but speed up the decision process . |
| 22 | This chapter describes , with some basic facts and figures , the range of institutions that make up the United Kingdom 's education system . |
| 23 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 24 | All vitamins and essential minerals are necessary to assist in normal functioning of the thousands of different chemical reactions that make up the body 's metabolism . |
| 25 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |
| 26 | A colour catalogue , costing £3 , also illustrates the abundance of smaller accessories that make up the Shaker look . |
| 27 | It is not difficult to imagine that the impact of the crash caused damage to almost all the various spindles that make up the centre-pieces of many of the sub-assemblies . |
| 28 | Many knitters will not often come across patterns that take up the whole working memory . |
| 29 | The following evening we established base camp at 16,700fft and spent the next 28 days , in fairly unpredictable weather , climbing many of the graceful peaks that make up the Chong Kumdan massif . |
| 30 | The 26 environmental groups that make up the Everglades Coalition say the agreement does not go far enough , failing to tackle the problem of how to restore the natural rise and fall of water in the swamps , which has been disrupted by dikes , canals and other human intervention . |