Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 3 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 4 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 5 | erm There 's not much opportunity for job advancement , there are fewer opportunities to rise up the scale and become Readers or Professors and so on . |
| 6 | My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift . |
| 7 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 8 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 9 | It 's in what was obviously quite a nice terrace at one time , early Victorian or something , with big fat columns holding up the porches and railings on the street and steps leading to the basement . |
| 10 | But Laura herself quietly went in the next day , spent hours cleaning up the mess and advertised for a new manageress . |
| 11 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 12 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 13 | They eat a tremendous amount in the weeks running up the race and she cooks everything fresh . |
| 14 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 15 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 16 | A company must pay consultants to set up the programme and chemists to test the urine . |
| 17 | His reckless stance cost Britain a BILLION pounds propping up the pound and may well yet force up interest rates . |
| 18 | The eunuchs piled into the entrance hall , the musicians started up the music and Vimla led the dancing by stamping her foot and ringing her little anklet bells . |
| 19 | ‘ The goats gobble up the vegetation , the pigs dig up the roots and the eggs of tortoises and turtles , and the donkeys trample paths on the hills , causing erosion , so that in the rainy season whole hillsides fall down . ’ |
| 20 | The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs . |
| 21 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 22 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 23 | A re-occurrence of the ‘ brief chat ’ approach , leaving members to pick up the grammar and the context will not be a happy omen for the new authorities . |
| 24 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 25 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 26 | It 's made from one piece of mahogany , with no extra bits making up the headstock or heel , and it 's a superb piece of work . |
| 27 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
| 28 | Some concern was expressed about the slow progress on negotiations to set up the museum and it was hoped that a further meeting with Shropshire Leisure Services could be set up soon . |
| 29 | You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg . |
| 30 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |