Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb pp] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doc Threadneedle slowly turned up the lights . |
| 2 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eyeing the tiny seed-pearl head-dress with the fly-away veil , Ellie determinedly picked up the scissors and cut all the net off . |
| 8 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 9 | As their 35ft yacht , the Blue Doublet , bobbed about on the choppy waters , Commander Tim Laurence finally plucked up the courage to pop the question . |
| 10 | The fizz of 300 sparklers soon lit up the atmosphere , as across the darkened hall wailed the haunting sound of sitar ( played by Sikhs from Britain Sikh Human Rights Movement ) . |
| 11 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 12 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 13 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 14 | One teacher indeed summed up the book as portraying religion as a fairy story and a religious festival as like a birthday party . |
| 15 | The plaintiff also failed in his claim in Rickards v. Lothian where some third person deliberately blocked up the waste-pipe of a lavatory basin in the defendant 's premises , thereby flooding the plaintiff 's premises . |
| 16 | Defries mentally summed up the stranger : fit ; scruffy ; non-combatant . |
| 17 | As a pair they really were an excellent entry and looking back , I am somewhat amazed that my aunt ever plucked up the courage to parade around the streets . |
| 18 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 19 | Lightning suddenly lit up the house , and I saw who it was . |
| 20 | Shut up in the motor-home with Colin while the mechanics desperately mopped up the mess and changed the fuel bag , Emerson was reasonably sure he would n't be able to race . |
| 21 | The Cuban exile forces landed at the Bay of Pigs ( 17 April 1961 ) , but no rising took place and Castro 's forces easily rounded up the invaders . |
| 22 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 23 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |
| 24 | Finding a permanent bassist proved difficult and at one point Gedge almost wrapped up the group completely . |
| 25 | Industry watcher Nina Lytton publicly sized up the COSE alliance as the ‘ triumph of the obvious . ’ |
| 26 | Industry watcher Nina Lytton publicly sized up the COSE alliance as the ‘ triumph of the obvious . ’ |
| 27 | As he left Number 10 , Ian Gilmour sourly summed up the changes by saying they were ‘ not much good if you are steering full-speed ahead for the rocks ’ . |
| 28 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 29 | Had the chauffeur ever picked up the Prince from the neighbourhood ? |
| 30 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |