Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Gavin Hastings finds no room for manoeuvre as ( l–r ) Wales ' Ieuan Evans and Roger Bidgood turn up the heat at Cardiff Arms Park .
2 General Dornberg tore up the despatch .
3 Hampden Babylon picks up the challenge , but shifts the spotlight away from Hollywood and its tinsel stardom to the less glamorous football grounds of Scotland , where a cast list of rogues , reprobates and reckless drivers star in the most squalid film never made .
4 ‘ In stepped Newcastle 's dreaded rivals Sunderland , and Lawrie McMenemy stumped up the cash .
5 Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news .
6 British Mogul Champion Neil Munro sums up the problem .
7 The police driver shot Jamie a look of enquiry which he missed , occupied as he was with guiding Miss Williams back up the hill .
8 David Skinner heads up the project team .
9 Miss Fergusson summed up the exchange so far , needless as this seemed to her companion .
10 Dan Jennings , Mari-Ann Dore and Rebecca Grisewood make up the backing group , and the girls also performed a duet .
11 Miss Gilberd picked up the receiver , and dialled .
12 ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’
13 Ken Stevens tipped up the wheelbarrow then stood back to rest for a moment .
14 They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell .
15 A century from professional Raman Lamba set up the total of for two with Sam Gilliland making an unbeaten 74 .
16 But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident .
17 But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident .
18 Thus Dr David Evans summed up the reaction of Catalytic Systems Division to the double award in 1993 of the Queens Award for Environmental Achievement and the Queen 's Award for Export Achievement to CSD in the UK .
19 As they went upstairs , Miss Evans rolled up the drugget behind them .
20 Anguish : Mrs Ellen Owens clears up the muck and water from her Conwy Morfa flat Picture : COLIN PAXTON
21 Meanwhile , General Stilwell advanced up the Hukawng Valley with American-trained Chinese troops .
22 With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook .
23 Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii .
24 The writer Jean-Philippe Domecq took up the theme , maintaining that as many as 95% of contemporary works are no more than boring illustrations of even more boring theoretical points .
25 At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash .
26 The Midlands leader of the pit deputies union NACODS was first to emerge from the review meeting at Edwinstowe Ray Hilton summed up the mood of the mining unions .
27 IT would be reasonable to suppose that dreams of following Daley Thompson have inspired Anthony Brannen to take up the world record holder 's former mantle as Britain 's leading decathlete .
28 Dr Hallauer summed up the importance of vaccinating healthcare workers against hepatitis B , not only to protect their own health but also for the good of others .
29 THREE nuns from Darlington Carmel Convent follow in the footsteps of their predecessors this month when they travel to South Africa to set up the country 's first multi-racial convent .
30 Troop Sergeant Haines brought up the rear as the raiders moved towards the Old Entrance lock bridge ( 'G' ) but had first to swing north round the buildings on the east of the basin .
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