Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stockmarket rally that started in the last quarter of 1992 pushed up the composite share index from a low point of 459 on August 21st to 678 at the end of the year , up 11% from 12 months earlier . |
| 2 | Some Italian papers publish lists of those rounded up the previous day together with little maps marking the cities where the companies implicated have their factories . |
| 3 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | A typical letter in the correspondence columns of The Daily Mail in 1977 summed up the commonplace fears and aspirations which are arranged around this slogan : This kind of commonsense reasoning , invariably linked to the perceived upsurge in crime and mischief , has become such a day-to-day feature of life in contemporary Britain that one hears complaints phrased in the idiom of ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ amidst the gossip of bus queues , pubs and launderettes . |
| 5 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 6 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |