Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [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 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 4 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How can a demoralised off-licence manager work up the enthusiasm to sell what an increasingly adventurous customer has no desire to buy ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |
| 15 | It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book . |
| 16 | Others fear that it will contain metals especially copper from the pipes and boiler , and choose to boil drinking water to bring up the temperature . |
| 17 | In 1977 a Council planner summed up the development of the argument from his point of view : — |
| 18 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 19 | On the 42nd lap Levagh came up the straight between the grandstand and the pits in his silver Mercedes at about 240 kph ( 150 mph ) and was being followed by Fangio . |
| 20 | Three pairs of navy wool socks and a white-spotted red cotton scarf made up the total . |
| 21 | ‘ NO OTHER PLACE in the UK can lay claim to so much aeronautical history , ’ was how Sir Peter Masefield , Chairman of the Brooklands Museum Trust summed up the status of the famous site at the ‘ launch ’ of their 1992 season plans . |
| 22 | It is hardly an exaggeration to say that by delaying tactics the Home Office held up the legislation by more than twenty years . |
| 23 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 24 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 25 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 26 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 27 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 28 | On command , a wave of tube inflation rises up the tights from ankle to thigh , squeezing the vein-blood in front of it . |
| 29 | Respect for product in the form of dramatic production became eroded and , regrettably , those who believed in the value of drama as a community enterprise gave up the struggle . |
| 30 | The Evening News summed up the affair by calling for greater public vigilance to root out the canker of immorality : ‘ England has tolerated the man Wilde for too long … he was a social pest , a centre of intellectual corruption … who attacked all wholesome , manly , simple ideals of English life . ’ |