Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 2 | ‘ But you are kinda running up a backlog in my favour account . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 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 | The Leeders are now drawing up a petition which will be presented to the Bishop of Chelmsford next month . |
| 12 | Scientists at Liverpool University are now drawing up a breeding programme for the UK herd . |
| 13 | Some Californians who visited us are now setting up a centre in San Francisco , ’ said Tabkay. — Tabkay seated in one of the gompas in front of a geling , a wind instrument he has mastered . |
| 14 | Well , in that we 're , I 'm just , I 'm just bringing up a point that yes he , he , it seems that he could well say something like well , the cow herder or the shepherd down the road has got as much of the right as anybody else . |
| 15 | I 'm just tidying up a bit while you 're singing darling |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Thank you no I 'm just picking up a book George promised me . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 19 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 20 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 21 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 24 | DETECTIVES were yesterday following up a number of leads after an appeal on national television for information about a Darlington building society robbery . |
| 25 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 28 | Vicky left IMG to make her own mark and has been steadily building up a quality client list . |
| 29 | I do not want to make too much of them , but there are bogus applications and they are completely clogging up the system . |
| 30 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |