Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presence of ice withdraws water in vapour form from distal cells , concentrating their solutions and building up the extra-cellular crystals . |
| 2 | After slipping the clip carefully into her anorak pocket and zipping it closed she descended the steps and scooped up the fallen FN FAL . |
| 3 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to shower , ’ Ruth told him , getting to her feet and gathering up the dirty glasses which littered th table-top . |
| 5 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 6 | Note that two terminals may be required for the Offline process : the Operator Terminal and one other to handle normal LIFESPAN operations and to set up the Offline run . |
| 7 | Chairman Reacher , who admitted last weekend that he had already started contemplating life without Brian , added : ‘ We are going to get this club back on the rails and climb up the Premier League . |
| 8 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 9 | He made a sort of ducking movement to acknowledge his orders and tipped up the nearest chair so that its burden of garments slithered to the flagstones . |
| 10 | The most common reasons cited for cutting audit fees were reducing the number of external auditors and beefing up the internal audit departments . |
| 11 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 12 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 13 | Tell your friends and put up the enclosed poster where it will be seen . |
| 14 | On Sunday 10 May 1719 three warships subjected Castle Eilean Donan to a fierce bombardment which left gaping holes in its walls and the small garrison , in their alien white and yellow uniforms , surrendered , in the most gratifying fashion , to a few boatloads of English sailors , who seized the rebels ' stores and blew up the old fortress . |
| 15 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 16 | If I was n't an actor I 'd be covered in tattoos and pierced up the fucking ying-yang . |