Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 2 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 3 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |
| 4 | Anyway , we and of course we gets up the line at the and then I got a touch of some sunstroke . |
| 5 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 6 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 7 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 8 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 9 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 10 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 11 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |
| 12 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 13 | For it cuts up the grass like farmyard manure , it chops it up you see and it rots quick and makes the grass grow quicker . |
| 14 | And it cuts up the grass in wee bits and instead of er making the roads better it makes them worse . |
| 15 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 16 | It conjures up the picture of an omnipotent and independent sovereign — the image actively cultivated by the ideology of Tsarism . |
| 17 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 18 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 19 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 20 | That itself should n't er impose er any greater cost on auditors , but it should , and this is the crucial point I think , it should bolster the ability of auditors to insist that their client companies er are forthcoming and open and where necessary correct if they can er problems which might otherwise bring their authorised status er into question and therefore it is a welcome enhancement of the law , it toughens up the law without imp imposing the costs about which he 's rightly concerned . |
| 21 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 22 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 23 | Murphy rejects the first , accepts the second and does not actually consider the third at all ! in fact it is probably the key , since in an earlier part of his discussion he opens up the possibility of interpreting not only into ASL ( or BSL ) but also into a manual English form . |
| 24 | It opens up the possibility for a male to come along and displace or remove the sperm stored from a previous mating . |
| 25 | Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion . |
| 26 | Pursued further , as a form of enlightenment and emancipation , it opens up the possibilities of critical self-reflection , of seeing one 's central pursuits in a new perspective . |
| 27 | He goes in , he trips the toggle , the toggle jiggers the trapeze , the trapeze lets go the springy pole , it whips back , it pulls up the door to the basket … the big fish is the prisoner now . |
| 28 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 29 | He tosses up the Clothes with a barbarous swing over his Shoulders , disorders the whole Economy of my Bed , leaves me half naked , and my whole Night 's Comfort is the tuneable Serenade of that wakeful Nightingale , his Nose . |
| 30 | The glass stands silent in the gallery , he wrote , but it burns up the lies of the gallery . |