Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb base] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
| 5 | As the ravers and new age travellers helped local council workmen clear up the site , there was praise for the way the police handled the weekend . |
| 6 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 7 | A hall , lounge , kitchen , dining area , three bedrooms and bathroom/ w.c. make up the accommodation . |
| 8 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 9 | Badlands surfers in reflective mood as lumberjack shirt-clad friend summons up the spirits of The Pit ( left ) ; the SAS tighten up ( above ) |
| 10 | Rogue regimes show up the shortcomings of law Experts agree the US breached international conventions . |
| 11 | Taekwondo practitioners build up the calluses on their knuckles by performing press-ups on them , although there is evidence that prolonged conditioning in this way causes metacarpal damage . |
| 12 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 13 | In the following year Koops set up the Minerva Universal Insurance Office in Pall Mall , Westminster . |
| 14 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 15 | Both John Lehmann 's books and Ealing Studios ' film posters point up the fact that Minton was working in the last great era of illustration , before graphic means were ousted by photographic . |
| 16 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 17 | Often the section police mop up the after-effects of problems , such as attending calls to fires , suicides , natural deaths , domestic disputes , and road traffic accidents . |
| 18 | The ‘ appearance ’ is of the wall stopping just as it reaches the board ; but do not the input systems deliver up the information that the wall continues behind the occluder ? |