Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 2 | In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg . |
| 3 | If there was any criticism of the engine , it was that the aluminium alloys used gave the impression of not standing up the rigours of 40 years under the ground quite so well . |
| 4 | But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons . |
| 5 | At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened . |
| 6 | The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered . |
| 7 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 8 | Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance . |
| 9 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 10 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |
| 11 | In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents . |
| 12 | A sudden glare from outside lit up the windows briefly . |
| 13 | Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ? |
| 14 | Inflows of money from abroad drive up the exchange rate . |
| 15 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 16 | I was used to suddenly closing up the shop anyway . |
| 17 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 18 | I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice |
| 19 | This simple method avoids having to laboriously pick up the worms one by one . |
| 20 | ‘ We hope , between us , to gradually build up the tournament , ’ he added . |
| 21 | Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post . |
| 22 | If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead . |
| 23 | Then came the time to really pick up the slack once more . |
| 24 | Both Simon Draper and Ken Berry had been vehement in their opposition to Branson even contemplating rehiring Wilson , and advised him to now tear up the contract and be done with it . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't know them , Sister , ’ he said darkly , ‘ and if they 're not thinking that then they 'll say I 'm skiving or only coming over here to chat up the nurses . ’ |
| 26 | In the other schools the head or the senior management team still decided on how to divide up the money with little or no consultation . |
| 27 | Essex Rivers Healthcare health promotion unit will be opening its doors on the day and will welcome smokers wanting advice on how to give up the habit . |
| 28 | The DSS said last week local authorities would be expected to negotiate with home owners on how to make up the gap in funding for residents who have to be away from the home for more than six days . |
| 29 | It is Rangers ' intention to then dig up the pitch and lay a new surface . |
| 30 | Alarmed at this sight , and with the smell , which came principally from the cerecloth , they ordered the ground to be thrown in immediately without judiciously closing up the cerecloth and lead , which covered the face : only observing enough of the inscription to convince them that it was the body of Queen Katherine . |