Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |
| 2 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 3 | In other words the access paths for joining or separating relations are not set up with the data . |
| 4 | My family have lived in Anglesey for 500 years , mostly as parsons , and I am deeply tied up with the people and landscape . |
| 5 | Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him . |
| 6 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 7 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 8 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |