Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 18 months after terminating a distribution agreement with Wokingham , Berkshire-based Azlan Ltd , Gupta Corp has signed up the distributor once more : the agreement replaces the one Gupta has had with Frontline Distribution Ltd in the meantime , and covers the distribution of the company 's SQL System range of client-server databases , tools and end-user reporting products ; Gupta also signed a distribution deal with Qudis Networks Ltd . |
| 2 | Yet the rise has continued up the league ladder , even with the sale of playing assets . |
| 3 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 4 | In Oxford , Labour has used up the housing reserves and still owes £22 million on its council houses . |
| 5 | Ah that 's a nerve , that 's a nerve getting inflamed up the back there . |
| 6 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 7 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 8 | At ten o'clock in the morning a monster had ripped up the countryside , devastation littering its wake . |
| 9 | An earlier wind had whipped up the surface snow into rivulets like tiny mountain ranges , and whirled spirals like ice cream from a machine . |
| 10 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 11 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 12 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |
| 13 | When you take it out , you will see the ice has pushed up the cap . |
| 14 | Well in in general er the original work plan had divided up the production work to share out the technology and this meant that components were being shipped around more than actually they they needed to be or that was economic and it was found that there was the potential to concentrate manufacturers sub-assemblies for each of the major components of the aircraft and subsequently assemble the major components in one country rather than several . |
| 15 | Shrewsbury and Borough Council have taken up the flagpole , have decided to spend a considerable amount of money on providing a visitor attraction in those buildings , around those buildings . |
| 16 | The company can have between two and 50 shareholders ( people who have given money to help set up the company , and in return take a share of its profits ) . |
| 17 | For example , children earning 7.25 per cent in TSB 's Firstsave account would get 8.5 per cent if their cash helped pushed up the family 's total savings to more than £5,000 . |
| 18 | The move to diesel has opened up the Gateway car lists , which were once primarily Ford-dominated but which now include European manufacturers such as Peugeot , Citroen and Renault as well as Ford and Vauxhall . |
| 19 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 20 | However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector . |
| 21 | So the fat proprietor had whistled up the gondola . |
| 22 | When she had opened The Bar , Madame had kept up the costume in which she 'd worked when she was just an entertainer in other people 's places — she 'd worked in them all . |
| 23 | The 22-year-old fashion student has sewn up the opportunity of a lifetime by winning last night 's Northern Ireland Smirnoff Fashion Designer of the Year Award . |
| 24 | In Scotland not one local authority had taken up the scheme and only twenty-five councils in England and Wales had responded . |
| 25 | Competition between the Poles and the Commission had driven up the price of land in Pomerania by over 100 per cent by 1900 , so that land the German farmers did not want to farm cost twice as much as farmland anywhere else in Germany . |
| 26 | Mr Morrison said the independence movement had opened up the possibility of former Eastern bloc countries becoming big players in the drug trade : ‘ Poland , for example , is now a major manufacturer of amphetamine . ’ |
| 27 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 28 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 29 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 30 | Local pupils have taken a great interest in the British Gas work , which is bringing gas supplies for the first time to the Bere Alston and Bere Ferrers communities , where more than a third of the 1042 homes in the area have taken up the offer of gas . |