Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 2 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 3 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 4 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 5 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 6 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 7 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 8 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 9 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 10 | The plan also splits up the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research into two units from next month , with the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh being separated from the Babraham Institute , Cambridge . |
| 11 | Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops . |
| 12 | His gaze casually swept up the table instead , skimming the bowed heads and carefully composed expressions until it reached Professor St John Goth , where it stopped short with a sense of shock . |
| 13 | Under the guise of outrage , the Daily Post self-righteously took up the story , forcing the other Fleet Street newspapers to follow suit . |
| 14 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 15 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 16 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 17 | The very act of brainstorming often throws up the structure of the answer as well as the main points which it is necessary to cover . |
| 18 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 19 | One teacher indeed summed up the book as portraying religion as a fairy story and a religious festival as like a birthday party . |
| 20 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 21 | His own worst experience ‘ in the past year , anyway ’ involved a Friday 7pm service from Kings Cross that started late , had no buffet car , and after more stops than the Minster organ finally gave up the ghost at Doncaster . |
| 22 | The plaintiff also failed in his claim in Rickards v. Lothian where some third person deliberately blocked up the waste-pipe of a lavatory basin in the defendant 's premises , thereby flooding the plaintiff 's premises . |
| 23 | STRANGELY , THE climax of the Dollars trilogy is a prequel to the others , set during the Civil War and showing how Clint Eastwood 's Man With No Name gradually picks up the props — the poncho , the sheepskin jacket , the cigar — that mark his identity in the other films . |
| 24 | At the end of each day 's fishing , the top name goes to the bottom , and your name automatically progresses up the list , eventually reaching the top . |
| 25 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 26 | But the scale of the increase might come as a surprise : on the 21-week agreement 10p a week extra pushing up the rate of charge from 26. 1 per cent to 72.5 per cent for example , or on the 15-week agreement 1 p a week extra almost doubling the rate . |
| 27 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 28 | As a pair they really were an excellent entry and looking back , I am somewhat amazed that my aunt ever plucked up the courage to parade around the streets . |
| 29 | It becomes ‘ automatic ’ and an attempt to introspect the components of skilled movement often breaks up the quality of the performance . |
| 30 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |