Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 2 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 3 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 4 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 5 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 6 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 7 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 8 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 9 | The Construction Ministry estimates that $5.3 billion will be needed over the next five years just to clean up the country 's water supply . |
| 10 | The fizz of 300 sparklers soon lit up the atmosphere , as across the darkened hall wailed the haunting sound of sitar ( played by Sikhs from Britain Sikh Human Rights Movement ) . |
| 11 | The upper classes rapidly gave up the struggle to maintain social exclusivity at the seaside resorts and fled to the Highlands , the Lakes , and eventually the Continent , to pursue their particular pleasures , unhampered by the proximity of their inferiors . |
| 12 | US troops later blew up the radio transmitter to prevent further broadcasts . |
| 13 | The application of towers dramatically broke up the monotony , as in Francis Thompson 's Chester General and P. C. Hardwick 's Royal Great Western Hotel , Paddington . |
| 14 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 15 | Even unravelling the cause can be so time consuming that many managers merely give up the struggle . |
| 16 | Ditches and lanes frequently divide up the platforms , so that a rough plan can be seen of the former crofts lying along the lanes . |
| 17 | What is more , the proprietors of seaside cafés and catering establishments actually take up the recipe and produce their own versions of it . |
| 18 | Had n't you better sit in your chair for ten minutes before clear up the lunch . |
| 19 | The user has also to construct a path through the relations thus setting up the linkages required at run time . |
| 20 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 21 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 22 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 23 | Pin or staple fabric in place and tie ribbons underneath to draw up the blind . |
| 24 | Malt , roast and flakes together make up the Guinness grist . |
| 25 | Shut up in the motor-home with Colin while the mechanics desperately mopped up the mess and changed the fuel bag , Emerson was reasonably sure he would n't be able to race . |
| 26 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 27 | The Cuban exile forces landed at the Bay of Pigs ( 17 April 1961 ) , but no rising took place and Castro 's forces easily rounded up the invaders . |
| 28 | Exceptions have been made in four areas where the high incidence of large industrial users quickly took up the 15% , but attempts by the EIUG to have the concessions extended have been rebuffed by Littlechild . |
| 29 | These cell divisions simply divide up the egg to give a population of smaller cells that form the early embryo and are thus different from the cell division associated with cell growth and multiplication . |
| 30 | The results also point up the problem of maintaining the standards reached in the new services . |