Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Very soon after the campaign of unspeakable suffering had commenced , ’ James Butterworth wrote in 1932 , ‘ those who had laboured long in building up a club saw the once-hooligan juniors , who had become stalwart seniors , whipped away as by magic … |
| 2 | Mr Waigel hoped to go to Munich ; Mr Kohl would move someone better at adding up the costs of German unity to the finance ministry . |
| 3 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 4 | Though you do make it sound like running up a cotton frock . |
| 5 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 6 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 7 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 8 | For this reason , it is best to practise a pan before you shoot , starting with the body pre-swung through half of the movement in the opposite direction — rather like winding up a spring . |
| 9 | Rather like putting up a mouth to get a kiss and getting a blow instead . |
| 10 | Bull , who has scored four goals in the last two games , did not train yesterday after picking up the injury during Saturday 's 5-0 win over Portsmouth . |
| 11 | The claims of the opponents of monopoly turned out to be reasonably justified ; more and more slaves were shipped across the Atlantic by the independent traders , and the government found itself drawn further and further into keeping up the forts that provided English traders with a base of operations in West Africa . |
| 12 | It may be prudent for a firm to gain experience in the market through agents and distributors before venturing directly into setting up a manufacturing subsidiary . |
| 13 | Powers claimed by the Home Secretary to intervene over the content of programmes would radically alter the constitution of broadcasting , Mr Anthony Lester , QC , told the Court of Appeal yesterday in winding up an appeal against the High Court refusal to outlaw restrictions on interviews with named groups , including Sinn Fein . |
| 14 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 15 | Now according to a report in today 's Guardian , the company is considering going a step further by setting up a manufacturing plant in Russia . |
| 16 | A shortage of time proved problematical and in order to ensure that the Suhaili negotiated the fjords successfully in picking up the climbers , Knox-Johnston returned to the boat before the others . |
| 17 | And now for picking up the bits . |
| 18 | The reason why this amendment in my view is one that can take us forward is that it places responsibility now for clearing up the mess clearly where it belongs and that 's with the Labour group . |
| 19 | In management reports it is often worth adding up the columns of figures that are presented . |
| 20 | Far from giving up the ghost , Mr Jones now tours the world with his ‘ Absolut Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company ’ , staging his late companion 's choreographies , dancing , even getting into debates with local Roman Catholic clergymen about the use of condoms . |
| 21 | ‘ Hello ? ’ she queried evenly on taking up the receiver — and an instant later , Lubor 's apologetic tones hit her ears . |
| 22 | This takes some getting used to , but claustrophobic fingertips need not concern themselves unduly , as the feeling is dispelled immediately upon picking up the guitar . |
| 23 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 24 | ‘ The only thing that glass does n't do as well as metal is that metal generates some sound simply by moving up the string , and I really like that kind of character . |
| 25 | Weediness , it would seem , can not be fully described simply by totting up a score . |
| 26 | Knowing that mere seconds might mean the difference between life and death for the hundreds of people trapped by the explosions , IMDEC responded immediately by setting up a citizens ' coordinating committee , drawing on the expertise and resources of 27 social and human rights organisations . |
| 27 | He took his pulse again to calm himself ( it had gone up to sixty-five ) and then began to concentrate hard on gathering up the bits of himself . |
| 28 | The conservation strategy will focus initially on building up an information database on the region 's bird life , and on conducting further surveys , with a view to making information available to locally-based researchers . |
| 29 | I 'll back chasing young cattle against anything else for working up a sweat , and I had already forgotten the uncharitable world outside . |
| 30 | The cards can be stored alphabetically , and children can use them instead of taking up the teacher 's time . |