Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This keeps him happy until it is time to go to the nursery by which time she has cleared up the mess . |
| 2 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 3 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 4 | She remembers running up the aisle , but mass had ended . |
| 5 | She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light . |
| 6 | She 's picked up the cryptosporidium organism , which has been found in the reservoir and causes stomach pains , sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 7 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 8 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 9 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 10 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 11 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 12 | He has drawn up the list of items below . |
| 13 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 14 | Microsoft says it has moved up the publication date of its Win32s application programming interface , a subset of the Win32 application programming interface in NT , to this quarter . |
| 15 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 16 | It has set up the Highlands and Islands Development Board . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's great and it has opened up the race again , ’ said Mr Holding , 23 . |
| 18 | It has taken up the cause of a South Ronaldsay mother , seven of whose children have been in care since November 1990 . |
| 19 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 20 | In Moonraker , beautiful specimens queue to join Sir Hugo Drax 's space stud farm , unconcerned that he plans to blow up the world . |
| 21 | In other words it chooses to move up the Phillips curve from point A to a point such as point B which corresponds to its new perception of the ‘ optimal ’ unemployment inflation pair . |
| 22 | That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning . |
| 23 | The weaker the AC electric field , the longer it takes to build up the power of those ions , but the build-up is unavoidable if the particle mass , the magnetic field strength and the AC signal frequency satisfy the formula for resonance . |
| 24 | I do n't know , from tea time it seems to warm up the house |
| 25 | His difficulty is accompanied by a no doubt symptomatic increasing distrust of universals so that , in championing specificities against them , he seems to give up the attempt to validate the universals — History as Totalization — that originally formed the object of his project . |
| 26 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 27 | Another wrote of ‘ a new resurgence of idolatrous religion ’ in which ‘ the church is valued , if it is valued at all , to the extent that it helps to shore up the values and culture of Thatcherism . ’ |
| 28 | Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’ |
| 29 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 30 | The MMC has no power to enforce its recommendations ; action depends on the Secretary of State , if he wishes to follow up the recommendations . |