Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saves the government more than a hundred million pounds by cutting the number of expensive court hearings , and it 's a quick and easy way for the police to clear up crime . |
| 2 | Two of the Kamalians scooped up Skorpions . |
| 3 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 4 | All the majors and two of the mini-majors set up production subsidiaries in London . |
| 5 | The reality is that the present intelligent and moderate leaderships of the unions pay up money out of a mixture of sentiment , good will and habit . |
| 6 | Meanwhile children bring outgrown favourites … hoping , like the writers to step up Oxfam 's sales of second hand books . |
| 7 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 8 | The price of property in the village had risen as people from the towns bought up cottages as second homes and young couples could no longer afford them . |
| 9 | As a snow crystal grows in free fall , the angular deviation within the molecules sets up stresses and the hexagon will not close completely . |
| 10 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 11 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |