Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all .
2 He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether .
3 ‘ And what 's to stop this dame tanking up the deal later ?
4 Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third .
5 ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again .
6 Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 .
7 The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill .
8 fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go .
9 Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again .
10 The initiative to set up the relationship often comes from the client though , at times , this is difficult because he has to approach someone in a very different social position .
11 From the Brigadier 's office the Captain telephoned Maxwell at the Excelsior , sending Bacci through to the communicating duty room to pick up the phone there .
12 I 've never forgotten the lessons of that night : the abseils from doubtful anchors , my refusal to stop when the torch packed up , our failure to coil up the rope properly , and the lack of faith in our ability to survive a bivouac .
13 There is no need to call up the tort where the legal wrong procured is itself a tort against the plaintiff , for the procurer is then himself liable as a joint tortfeasor ; nor , it seems , is there a tort of inducing a breach of trust , because a person who procures such an act becomes himself , by the doctrines of equity , liable as a trustee .
14 Gen Noriega was able to broadcast to the people and organise resistance over the main national radio network , until a special US assault team blew up the transmitters late on Wednesday .
15 Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again .
16 If mum takes up the game again , then why not her children in future years ?
17 The head keeper scooped up the coins as deftly as any tax collector .
18 To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair .
19 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
20 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same .
21 And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
22 The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose .
23 The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 .
24 As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world .
25 Erikson sums up the situation well :
26 Former Chief Justice Bhagwati summed up the situation succinctly : ’ The multinational has won and the people of India have lost . ’
27 The man lifts up the woman so that she can wrap her legs round him .
28 insy winsy spider climbing up the spout again
29 The soft white animal-like hand picked up the baton again .
30 After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin .
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