Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour may also gamble that Scottish Liberal Democrats — who in the last parliament made up almost half Mr Ashdown 's party — will be reluctant to vote down a government which is trying to legislate for a Scottish assembly elected by proportional representation . |
| 2 | Instead , from as low as 1000rpm you can bury your foot in the firewall and watch the front of the car gobble up ever larger amounts of tarmac . |
| 3 | The Terrence Higgins Trust Advice Centre will arrange for a lawyer to draw up reasonably straightforward wills for people in the London area who are infected with HIV or AIDS . |
| 4 | Palestinian , Israeli and Jordanian officials met with US State Department officials between Aug. 7-13 in an attempt to draw up mutually acceptable memoranda of understanding as a basis for the conference . |
| 5 | But the small errand took up barely any time and she returned to her room with some hours to go before she would know if Ven Gajdusek was going to honour his letter . |
| 6 | Every day the Catering Department serves up almost 1,000 lunches across the campus , cooks up hot breakfasts for students in hall , creates four-star menus for visitors to the Management Centre and caters for special functions and conferences . |
| 7 | There was one child came up about seventeen times |
| 8 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 9 | James displayed the long-awaited tactical skill needed to vitalize the team formation drawn up nearly five years before , and with Lambert finding new flair at centre-forward , one of the most famous attacking lines of all time had been forged . |
| 10 | The English peasantry threw up only one John Clare , and he was born too late to experience this ancient world to the full . |
| 11 | A lot of firms need to buy computer power when their administrative work takes up too much time . |
| 12 | Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course . |
| 13 | The jobless question cropped up earlier this year when Darlington 's status as an intermediate development area prompted a public row between the two biggest rivals . |
| 14 | Jackie 's delicate fingers felt around the frame , applied a light pressure , and the window slid up about eighteen inches . |
| 15 | The team will continue to be run by the steering committee set up earlier this summer . |
| 16 | The probable penalty in packing density for a large file is of the order of 0.5 to 1 per cent , while for small files it can be very much more — 50 per cent in the most extreme case , when the file takes up only one data cylinder . |
| 17 | If one compares this relatively brief account with Mrs Gaskell 's much more detailed one of the Barton lodgings off that court in Manchester , the eye picks up very similar detail . |
| 18 | The growth of stalagmites resumed on top of this fresh deposit when the climate warmed up around 18,000 years ago . |
| 19 | The ODA Consortium is a European economic interest group set up earlier this year — members include Groupe Bull , DEC , IBM , ICL , SNI and Unisys : +32 2774 9623 . |
| 20 | Members of the right-wing Solidarity Group picked up so many shadow cabinet posts that they no longer needed to organise . |
| 21 | Tri-coloured pochards with chestnut heads , glossy black chests and pale grey bodies paddled beside grey-brown mottled females — and then upped and dived smoothly , disappearing under water to bob up again many yards distant . |
| 22 | The men who attacked the police on May 1st were members of an organisation set up earlier this year by something called the National Salvation Front . |
| 23 | The index ticked up again this week on news of the bond issue , reaching 517 on May 26th . |
| 24 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |
| 25 | But touring takes up so much time that there 's no real time to sit down and work out songs . |
| 26 | Biotechnology opens up almost unlimited possibilities . |
| 27 | The last two are part of a joint-venture set up earlier this month with French publisher Hachette , which also produces Sky . |
| 28 | otherwise the door took up so much room , you see . |
| 29 | Wilson in the end fails to escape from ‘ the nexus of moralistic ideology and patriarchal vision dressed up as social science , ( ibid. ) , much as the writers reviewed by Macnicol failed to do . |
| 30 | Channel 4 's Drop The Dead Donkey picked up best popular arts programme , while the independently-produced Jose Carreras : A Life Story was best arts documentary . |