Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 2 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 3 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
| 4 | Her passenger said the car headlamps lit up the bike . |
| 5 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 6 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 7 | Now she stood looking out of her bedroom window , feeling lonely in spite of the car headlights crawling up the avenue of tall cypresses towards the villa 's ornate façade and the first arrivals climbing the twin stone staircases to the central entrance . |
| 8 | As the elite Navy Seal commandos stormed up the beach , cameras rolled to catch live prime-time TV back home . |
| 9 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 10 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 11 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 12 | The Fundació 's maintenance costs eat up the lion 's share of government subsidy , and as the programme is expanded the directors hope to cultivate funds for the exhibition and education programmes from sponsorship and patronage . |
| 13 | First in line is the guitar input , with a manual channel select button , offering a boost facility to pep up the input level by 10dB for guitars with weak pickups . |
| 14 | What visitors to Foxton now see , either from above or below , is a staircase series of two lock flights , separated half way down by a large passing pond , with intermediate side ponds stepping up the east side of the flight . |
| 15 | In this way , the new church will recover one of the prime New Testament gifts to build up the church . |
| 16 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
| 17 | The Class 158 diagram replacing the loco-hauled Cambrian Coast express continues , with green liveried Centro 2 or 3 car sets making up the majority of Cambrian workings . |
| 18 | Team owner Frank Williams must have watched his pit lane monitor with a mixture of delight and dismay as the star he is losing to Indy Car racing ripped up the record books . |
| 19 | Salomea was at the Cadby Nursery when , at short notice , several refugee nurses took up the chance of emigrating to America . |
| 20 | In electrophoresis used on a laboratory scale , the separation takes place slowly in a gel that prevents convection currents mixing up the products . |
| 21 | A little water ( 3 gallons ) was syphoned off every day , and a larger amount every two weeks , using a gravel vacuum to stir up the gravel and remove the rubbish gathered therein . |
| 22 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
| 23 | Roberts and his cohorts have persuaded venture capital specialist Candover to stump up the lion 's share of £9m for shares in this potentially growth business , and the Bank of Scotland to provide £8m of loans and working capital facilties . |
| 24 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 25 | With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . |
| 26 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 27 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 28 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 29 | After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’ |
| 30 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |