Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 2 | Coleraine suddenly stepped up a gear in the last 20 minutes of normal time , a gear no-one , least of all Ards , believed they had . |
| 3 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 4 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 5 | When Richard finally took up the scrip and staff of a pilgrim , the latter broke under him . |
| 6 | THE draw for the last sixteen of the FA Trophy yesterday threw up a battle of the Irish . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | McKinsey also drew up an analysis showing how different facets of financial management should vary according to the stage of the life-cycle . |
| 9 | Signor Finchera also set up a table with a bottle of wine on it to ‘ welcome the lava ’ . |
| 10 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 11 | There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government . |
| 12 | He remembered the morning he had watched Bert proudly hang up the brand new sign . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Aldercine Hodson recently took up the challenge of organising a ‘ Fun Sports Afternoon ’ for the disabled that would cater especially for those handicapped people who have athletic inclinations but not necessarily the strength to cope with competition at County , Regional or National level . |
| 15 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 16 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 17 | Day 1 Rent — At this stage there is a future benefit so set up an asset and review at end of month . |
| 18 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 19 | And had the Grandtully folk best come up the glen and join on at Dull ? ’ |
| 20 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 21 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 22 | Plenty of gulls still kicking up a shindy . |
| 23 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 24 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 25 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 26 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Belfast City Council is hoping 110,000 people will take part in some form of exercise today to notch up a hat-trick of victories in the international fitness challenge . |
| 29 | Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops . |
| 30 | His gaze casually swept up the table instead , skimming the bowed heads and carefully composed expressions until it reached Professor St John Goth , where it stopped short with a sense of shock . |