Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Team owner Frank Williams must have watched his pit lane monitor with a mixture of delight and dismay as the star he is losing to Indy Car racing ripped up the record books . |
| 2 | In 1881 the Crystal Palace Company set up the Crystal Palace School of Gardening , and Milner became its principal . |
| 3 | His strike inspired Cliftonville to step it up a gear , but the visitors defence put up the shutters and survived — despite the last-gasp controversy . |
| 4 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 5 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 6 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 7 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 8 | ‘ NO OTHER PLACE in the UK can lay claim to so much aeronautical history , ’ was how Sir Peter Masefield , Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust summed up the status of the famous site at the ‘ launch ’ of their 1992 season plans . |
| 9 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 10 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 11 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 12 | Respect for product in the form of dramatic production became eroded and , regrettably , those who believed in the value of drama as a community enterprise gave up the struggle . |
| 13 | About 24 teams from local businesses in the Cambridge area took up the Cambridge Regional College initiative , to complete a number of different challenges in support of the local community . |
| 14 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |
| 15 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 16 | One respondent in the Yorkshire survey summed up the difficulties : ‘ One has to recognise that the pressures on consultants are increasing steadily — workload , management , teaching , financial control , reduction of juniors ’ hours … |
| 17 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 18 | Peter Brachaki 's TARDIS control room set made up the bulk of the design requirements , leaving Cusick only with the task of constructing two dormitory rooms . |
| 19 | In 1985 Gateshead CAB set up the Refugee Specialist Advice Project which helps refugees , asylum-seekers , and those with exceptional circumstances , to remain in the UK . |
| 20 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 21 | Gen Noriega was able to broadcast to the people and organise resistance over the main national radio network , until a special US assault team blew up the transmitters late on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Voice Processing Corp backed up the operating system with its VPro-4 speech recognition board ; PostSaver Systems with its barcoding software and Pittsburgh Powercomputing with its X Server products . |
| 23 | The south-east 15 knots wind opened up the fleet , but the gusty beat was a great leveller and provided some close finishes in the final four races . |
| 24 | An Estonian delegate to an August conference summed up the sense of frustration : |
| 25 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 26 | Its internal priorities reshuffled , the Princetown Input crept up the list . |
| 27 | Day by day , play by play , the Miracle Pageant grubbed up the wealth of every village , hamlet and town . |
| 28 | However , the US administration stepped up the food aid programme in spite of the Lavoro scandal and the suspicions of the Department of Agriculture . |
| 29 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 30 | The old wood of the door frame gave up the struggle and splintered , freeing the tongue of the lock , and without much more trouble I pulled the door open towards me , swinging it wide . |