Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 2 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 3 | Doc Threadneedle slowly turned up the lights . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 6 | When Richard finally took up the scrip and staff of a pilgrim , the latter broke under him . |
| 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 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 9 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 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 | He remembered the morning he had watched Bert proudly hang up the brand new sign . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And had the Grandtully folk best come up the glen and join on at Dull ? ’ |
| 18 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 19 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 28 | Simon actually counting up the cars next door , on the drive , getting , by that knowledge wanted to keep it . |
| 29 | Eyeing the tiny seed-pearl head-dress with the fly-away veil , Ellie determinedly picked up the scissors and cut all the net off . |
| 30 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |