Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 3 | If my neighbours ran up a bill and refused to pay we would not be expected to pay it . |
| 4 | If it was planned and wanted , it would be rated differently to the unplanned birth to an older woman which dashed her plans to take up a job which would enable the family to move to a more satisfactory house . |
| 5 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 6 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 7 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 8 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 9 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 10 | FUNDRAISERS have issued a cry for help in their efforts to set up a hospice in Darlington . |
| 11 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 12 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 13 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 14 | Without warning a big estate-car swung round a bend in the lane , its wheels throwing up a shower of mud and water . |
| 15 | She knew that she could put economic pressure on her neighbours to build up a bloc of states aligned to herself . |
| 16 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 17 | A rag-tag convoy in half-tracks and armoured cars passed by City Hall , their outriders churning up the flower beds . |
| 18 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 19 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 20 | Everyone went mad , stripping off their tops to soak up the sun , doing handstands and laying out tents and kit to dry — until the rain started again ! ’ |
| 21 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 22 | They circle the Earth repetitively and , as the Earth rotates eastwards below their orbital path , their instruments build up a picture of land and sea-surface conditions and the state of the atmosphere . |
| 23 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 24 | My father was one of them , and when ‘ Buddy Can You Spare a Dime ? ’ topped what was then the hit parade , its lyrics summed up the poverty , dependence and despair of the millions of poor throughout the world . |
| 25 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 26 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 27 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 28 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 29 | Students were known to spend their time in his lectures counting up the number of clichés which he used . |
| 30 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |