Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has taken up the fight and is tackling small business worries over banks charges head . |
| 2 | Quite often David has stepped up the tempo and provided tries for someone else . |
| 3 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 4 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 5 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 6 | Although there are still some technical problems , developers are working on business software for wireless computer networks , and NEC hopes to open up the market by introducing a lightweight antenna-modem unit for use with one of its popular and established series of PCs . |
| 7 | Birkenhead MP Frank Field has taken up the fight of Tranmere residents who feared they were in danger of becoming a ‘ forgotten area . ’ |
| 8 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 9 | Furthermore , Robert has worked up the story very well . |
| 10 | While conceding that this is an area of ‘ great difficulty ’ , Bob Cooper intends to keep up the pressure on the security forces to improve their fair employment record . |
| 11 | THE prospect of a tour to South Africa has fired up the imagination of senior ALL BLACKS said to have been contemplating retirement after the World Cup . |
| 12 | HONG KONG has stepped up the pressure on China , promising to publish democratic reform legislation soon unless Beijing agrees to come to the negotiating table . |
| 13 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 14 | Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns . |
| 15 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 16 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has stepped up the pressure on Bosnia 's warring parties to forge a peace agreement , urging Serbs and Croats to be more flexible and warning that a NATO military response is possible . |
| 17 | USL has taken up the baton of Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format technology from OSF , and has signed with the UK 's Defence Research Agency — the originator of the ANDF technology — to commercialise it for release with SVR4.2 . |
| 18 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 19 | ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line . |
| 20 | Mr Major intends to wind up the Department of Energy , establish a Department of Arts , Broadcasting and Sport and appoint a minister to imp lement the Citizen 's Charter . |
| 21 | Dave Brown has set up the Canoe Polo Sports Clinic . |
| 22 | Santa 's stuck up the chimney he began to shout . |
| 23 | John Cleese wants to clean up the town — and he 's as good a sheriff as we 've got . |
| 24 | John Hayward , with whom he wed to live , is keeping on the old flat , and Eliot has paid up the rent for another two years . |
| 25 | Ken Hollands has taken up the appointment of North Western Area Director from David MacInnes . |