Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 3 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 4 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 5 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 6 | In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg . |
| 7 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 8 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 9 | Brundle is , however , merely warming up the brakes and tyres and re-acquainting himself with the lines of his old home track . |
| 10 | But from the way he reached out slowly to pick up the bottle and said , " In the meantime — my treat ? " |
| 11 | If it goes as well as expected , decisions will have to be made this year on how best to scale up the operation and where to site the next expansion , he said . |
| 12 | ‘ With friends , you do n't introduce yourself , there 's no need to ring and say ‘ It 's Tessa here ’ , you just pick up the phone and wail : ‘ I threw up last night , ’ or ‘ I ca n't stand it , he has n't called . ’ |
| 13 | Your bill will tell you what band you 're in so if you think you 're entitled to any discounts and these are n't shown on your bill , just pick up the phone and call the Action Team they 'll put you through to someone who knows exactly what street you live in and what tax you should pay . |
| 14 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 15 | Why not just pick up the phone and call me ? ’ |
| 16 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 17 | Just pick up the receiver and get it over with . ’ |
| 18 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 19 | She was on the point of reaching over to pick up the coffee-pot and obligingly fill one of the spare cups for him . |
| 20 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 21 | However one must exercise care , especially when light , not to lock up the wheels and scrub off expensive tyres when trying to land really short . |
| 22 | In environments with seasonally poor supplies the large troop hoovering its way across the countryside would however soon clean up the food and many individuals would not get enough to eat . |
| 23 | My studio was the first room I did up , I just ripped up the carpet and painted the walls white ! |
| 24 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 25 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 26 | Warriors including Ollokot meanwhile scampered up the slope and mounted a defensive fire into the soldiers ' flanks from improvised rifle-pits . |
| 27 | Given that it would be unsatisfactory to have a single offence , then the question is how best to divide up the forms and degrees of physical violation and of sexual assault . |
| 28 | I was just dishing up the ravioli and he had n't even had time to take his helmet off when Nutty stormed in , drunk as a fiddler . |
| 29 | Shut up in the motor-home with Colin while the mechanics desperately mopped up the mess and changed the fuel bag , Emerson was reasonably sure he would n't be able to race . |
| 30 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |