Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 2 | Rupe roots for his mate Bob Rupert Murdoch has stirred up the possums in Australia , his former homeland , by praising his mate Bob Hawke , the Prime Minister , and dismissing Andrew Peacock , the opposition leader . |
| 3 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |
| 4 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |
| 5 | The next writer , Erica De'Ath , begins to open up the field in which child care needs arise , families and children , and the many changing patterns of family life which characterize the latter half of the twentieth century . |