Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 2 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 3 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 4 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 5 | Only by raising loans in New York and Paris could the Bank of England prop up the pound ; but foreign bankers were unwilling to risk their money unless the British Government balanced its budget . |
| 6 | As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years . |
| 7 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 8 | In 1812 the Cortes of Cadiz drew up a constitution which consecrated the dogma of the sovereignty of the nation . |
| 9 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 10 | After a while , too , some of the more literary residents of Princeton plucked up the courage to speak to him . |
| 11 | Similarly Michael Allaby and James Lovelock suggest that living organisms could.be introduced into the sterile environment of Mars to warm up the atmosphere . |
| 12 | He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep . |
| 13 | At the time , there was quite a campaign starting to build , calling for Wimbledon to dig up the grass . |
| 14 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 15 | Even nipping into Boots to pick up a bottle of shampoo or popping into Woolworths for some pick 'n' mix can turn out to be a major sensory-assault course . |
| 16 | The sounds mingled in her mind with the harsh cries of the birds as she waited for Sybil to pick up the phone again . |
| 17 | Could it be supposed that it would be more impossible for God to raise up a body at Resurrection , if needs be , out of elementary particles , which had been liberated by burning , than it would be to raise up a body from dust ? ’ |
| 18 | Soon after moving in Minton drew up a will in which he left the house to Ricky . |
| 19 | from 's Group Information Services department at Ipswich took the opportunity to spend some time in the USA 18 months ago , when he went to in Kansas to set up an Information Technology department . |
| 20 | Now Mr Bush is heading for his seaside home in Kennebunkport to hang up the sign — Gone Fishin' . |
| 21 | At least a portion of the jewish population was saving its skin by allying with the Party , for in April we discover 400 Jewish delegates in Minsk speeding up the fight against Zionism and proposing the closure of their religious schools in Belorussia , a notion which had become a reality by September according to the central press . |
| 22 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 23 | The Rev Peris Williams and his wife Sheila are leaving St Hildeburgh 's at Hoylake in Wirral to take up the parish of Holy Trinity in Blacon , Chester , in October . |
| 24 | An old miner in Barnsley summed up the euphoria : |
| 25 | In Costa Rica a microfilm centre will be started while a loan will enable Cuzco in Peru to build up an archive . |
| 26 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 27 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 28 | The panel will meet in September to draw up a shortlist of 15 titles in three age categories , with the overall winner to be announced on 17th November . |
| 29 | The use of polyethylene terephthalate on a commercial scale for bottles — by a process known by the clumsy name of injection stretch blow moulding — began in the USA in 1977 , and by 1979 , when ICI in Europe took up the development , American consumption had risen to 140 kta . |
| 30 | Products from these colonies , notably tobacco and sugar , had joined those from Asia to make up the re-export trade which had been balancing Britain 's payments since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 . |