Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 2 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 3 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 4 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 7 | Hercules conjures up the image of a weight lifter . |
| 8 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 9 | Lamborghini 's Diablo brings up the rear with 9 and 14mpg respectively . |
| 10 | With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . |
| 11 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 12 | Paolozzi takes up the challenge with relish , as he deliberately creates hiatuses and breaks in The Wealth of Nations . |
| 13 | Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit . |
| 14 | Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes . |
| 15 | Julian gives up the hunt for that elusive pressing plant |
| 16 | Reacting with a positive touch Peter Jones weighs up the prospects for the Lib Dems , who meet in Dunoon this weekend |
| 17 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 18 | Joseph Rothschild sums up the effect of these events : ‘ Facts became taboo and suspicion pervasive . |
| 19 | It is by tiny touches such as these — though only a stylometrist would consciously notice them — that Jane Austen builds up the picture of one character 's clubbability , and the other 's insolence of rank . |
| 20 | Michael Barry conjures up the taste of the Deep South with Shrimp gumbo |
| 21 | Tim Russon weighs up the odds in Friday Feature |
| 22 | Parsons gives up the matter in disgust when Tottle fails to win the hand of the eminently eligible Miss Lillerton . |
| 23 | Paul Forster soaks up the peace of a Malaysian island , |
| 24 | Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’ |
| 25 | Since the story has a happy ending , Fallon points up the effectiveness of extra police manpower and resources funded by the government . |