Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They very kindly drop in shade cards and patterns for her and Mrs Critten has only to pick up the telephone and they are there to help . |
| 2 | Fedelma has only started up the business since beginning the course and has found it a ‘ great practical help ’ . |
| 3 | When Weissbräu has finally mopped up the market for popular , easily-drinkable wheat beers , it will be glad to have such tasty , characterful brews as a specialist line . |
| 4 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 5 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 6 | It is typical of British tennis that Annabel Croft , who had not played a serious match for five years , should celebrate a light-hearted comeback by beating one of our brightest prospects who has just taken up the game professionally . |
| 7 | Pa has just pulled up the sleeves of his jacket and taken the Monster from Ma . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods . |
| 9 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 10 | DEC has also set up the Object Database Assessment Team to provide consultancy to customers deciding between an object database or a traditional approach for an application . |
| 11 | He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour . |
| 12 | The union has also taken up the case of 50 workers who were fired for joining the union . |
| 13 | The sociologist Bernice Martin has perceptively summed up the situation in terms of recent English culture when she says that : |
| 14 | Nonetheless he feels ‘ the poor economic situation has really speeded up the move towards more openness . |
| 15 | John Ritchie , Staff Development TVEI Co-ordinator , has now followed up the audit by inviting all schools in identify developments that should be undertaken centrally to allow these gaps to be filled . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 17 | The museum has recently set up the Jewellery Discovery Centre and is also planning to spend around £2.4m refurbishing Soho House , once owned by the eighteenth-century industrialist and inventor Matthew Boulton . |
| 18 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 19 | Personal allowances , premiums and payments to cover certain housing costs together make up the benefit payment . |
| 20 | Alton 's fourth try came from Taff Evans after a series of swift handling moves completely opened up the RAF defence . |
| 21 | Well he 's just locked up the car ooh |
| 22 | The water 's been flowing so fast it 's just dug up the tree by its roots and it pulled it along and it 's got wedged in the bridge look . |
| 23 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |