Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 4 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 5 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 6 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 7 | Regulators are busily clearing up the mess . |
| 8 | You are also turning up the relics of perennial weeds that can be difficult to eliminate later . |
| 9 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 10 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 11 | And now societies still interested in the conversion possibility will be carefully weighing up the reception given to the Guardian scheme compared with Abbey 's . |
| 12 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 13 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 14 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 15 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 16 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 17 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 18 | It was all those problems , and a few more , that were now fouling up the North Sea and other parts of Britain . |
| 19 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 20 | The British colonies were steadily filling up the Atlantic seacoast and populating the area fairly densely . |
| 21 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 22 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 23 | I do not want to make too much of them , but there are bogus applications and they are completely clogging up the system . |
| 24 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 25 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 26 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 27 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 28 | Motorola , Mace says , is still cleaning up the part and does n't want to announce pricing or general availability until later in the year . |
| 29 | Manu National Park , which is more isolated up the Madre de Dios River , has two million insects , one thousand species of birds , fifteen thousand species of plants , two hundred species of freshwater fish , two hundred species of bats — some still unknown to science . |
| 30 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |