Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other members of the family are often important in at least stimulating an awareness of the possibilities of sport and , at most , actively encouraging the brother or sister to take up the sport . |
| 2 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 3 | Boulton & Watt gave up the gas side of their business in 1814 , and the development of more efficient gas apparatus passed into other hands . |
| 4 | We do , however , offer a two year option which can be taken by those pupils with a poor Standard Grade or pupils picking up the subject . |
| 5 | Many men find they can get the same sort of pleasure by using sex toys like dildos or butt plugs up the bum . |
| 6 | Than Tun stepped up the propaganda campaign to end military government . |
| 7 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 8 | Fleet diesel sales grew by 15.6 per cent last year , and Brookman naturally wants it known that Peugeot picked up the lion 's share . |
| 9 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |
| 10 | Second and third produced a 9–9 stalemate , so Harrogate kept up the pressure for a final place after their 13–7 home victory over Winnington Park . |
| 11 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 12 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 13 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |
| 14 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 15 | Sir Patrick said that analysis backed up the view of Lord Colville , who conducted the review of the emergency laws , that only a small minority of cases involved allegations of police assaults inside the holding centres . |
| 16 | But as Greenblatt points out , there is evidence to suggest that Stanley made up the part about burning Shakespeare to heighten the effect of his story . |
| 17 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
| 18 | To make the vision a reality requires that BT open up the interfaces between the separate parts of its operation : the different parts of the physical network , its billing , management and services systems . |
| 19 | Indeed , he could modify his model by supposing that the gradient has its high point at the back edge of each segment , and that bristles point up the slope , and it would work just as well . |
| 20 | Finally , when Schisgal had returned to his interrupted slumbers , Mortimer and Yates brought up the subject of the purpose of their visit . |
| 21 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 22 | The light from the kitchen window was showing up the faintest of impressions on the paper , and Doyle picked up the pad and examined it more closely . |
| 23 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 24 | The octopus was urbanization and Williams-Ellis conjured up the vision of the tentacles of urban growth with their strong hold over the countryside . |
| 25 | " I think I 'm going to try and cut the grass , " Quentin Featherston said as he and Lavinia washed up the dishes after the Mothers ' Union tea-party , which had been even more trying than usual . |
| 26 | We sat down and Harvey picked up the telephone . |
| 27 | Two of the doors were numbered , and Alison opened up the door bearing an eight . |
| 28 | Rashid and Shahid cooked up the idea while serving customers at the Sitar in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 29 | We announced in the Budget new measures to help small businesses , including full relief against Inheritance Tax on most business assets , reductions in business rates and proposals to speed up the payment of outstanding bills . |
| 30 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |