Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West need three points to be sure of promotion , Newcastle keeping up the challenge on Saturday by winning 54–21 at home to Plymouth . |
| 2 | Mierle Laderman Ukele proposed an exhibition about maintenance called Care in 1969 : ‘ After the revolution who 's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 4 | Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Fly Past Spitfires and Hurricanes flying up the Mall on September 15th . |
| 5 | What sets this theme apart is the way Britten harps on it once it has emerged and uses it , in a number of variants , to build up the pressure on Grimes until he starts to break under the strain . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream . |
| 7 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 8 | Yet inefficiency in the command structure had hampered his efforts to keep up the pressure on Rommel 's supply lines , and in being ordered to return to base , he felt the grip of official interference . |
| 9 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 10 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 11 | From 1927 onwards , as the consequences of Eliot 's baptism into the Anglican church showed up in the imagery of ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , ‘ A Song for Simeon ’ , ‘ Animula ’ , and most conspicuously ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( 1930 ) , Tate , open to the solicitations of Christian belief , took up the running on Eliot 's behalf from the non-believer Wilson . |
| 12 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 13 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |
| 14 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 15 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has stepped up the pressure on Bosnia 's warring parties to forge a peace agreement , urging Serbs and Croats to be more flexible and warning that a NATO military response is possible . |
| 16 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 17 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |
| 18 | Molly had buttoned up the braces on Jacqueline 's trousers and found her youngest child a biscuit when she heard the screams . |
| 19 | The governing council of the National Front , the umbrella organization of political and social organizations under the communist regime , decided to wind up the body on Feb. 7 . |
| 20 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |