Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 2 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |
| 3 | Grant climbs up the aluminium ladder into the crow 's nest and surveys the horizon with binoculars . |
| 4 | The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 5 | A League title and European Cup winner with Aston Villa , Swain takes up the Springfield Park post next Monday . |
| 6 | This picture sums up the Falklands campaign . ’ |
| 7 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 8 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 9 | Rainbow offers up the horror story of the trashing at Outsider . |
| 10 | While good co-operation from the nursing and medical practitioners speeds up the rehabilitation process , only the chartered or fully qualified physiotherapist with specialist training in the treatment of hemiplegic patients is equipped to provide a total programme of rehabilitation , based on an individual assessment of the patient 's limitations and potential . |
| 11 | An overflow arrangement backs up the outlet pipe . |
| 12 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 13 | In the Cristofori-Silbermann action , the escapement engages the hammer shank on the same side of the pivot as the hammer head : the escapement pushes up the hammer butt . |
| 14 | With the first blast of air Lucker 's cigarette flares up the Bible page paper with double quick speed . |
| 15 | Tarogan 's is the Swindon hope and speedmaster brings up the Lambourn lot . |
| 16 | It 's not an ‘ instant ’ way of playing , whereas , especially with units like the Trace Elliot here , using a plectrum tightens up the response time in terms of attack . |
| 17 | Classic examples of awkward questions are the salesman 's special dread , as the interviewer picks up the telephone directory and says , ‘ Sell me this ’ , and the totally unpredictable , ‘ What star sign are you ? ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , the effect is perpetuated as each birth cohort advances up the age scale , especially if its mortality rate is greater or less than that of previous cohorts . |
| 19 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 20 | SED sets up the Osler Committee |
| 21 | ‘ Every new generation drags up the Kershaw Worm . ’ |
| 22 | The lowest level of index records makes up the sequence set , and in this case the pointers are to control intervals ; the total number of control intervals indexed by one index record makes up a control area . |
| 23 | Each occurrence at such a spot builds up the energy store until , after generations , it begins to be noticed more consciously . |
| 24 | Kaohsiung Yamaha covers over 235,000 sq ft of space and houses 800 staff ; electric guitar production takes up the ground floor while acoustics are built upstairs . |