Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 2 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 3 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |
| 4 | And now , with the accountants still hiring bulldozers to gather up the money , they 've begun to blow it all via smack , the biggest sucker punch of the lot . |
| 5 | Increasing intra-abdominal pressure by asking subjects to blow up a balloon produced an increase in anal pressure in both controls and spinal patients , returning to the baseline after the action ceased . |
| 6 | Now she is able to eat again , although naturally only very little and often but already she is feeling stronger and is doing exercises to build up the muscles which had become so weak . |
| 7 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 8 | This is like just allowing children to pick up a bottle of poison , and leaving it in their hands as though it is a matter of no consequence to us whether or not they drink it . |
| 9 | ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Now I know that er , some of the details are in the confidential section of the , of the agenda , I shall be very careful not to breach confidentiality , erm , but the , the proposal is this , that erm , we make representations to ensure that the receiver considers the welfare of residents er , in making arrangements to wind up the affairs of private residential homes . |
| 11 | Although your tenancy agreement may be with the agent many courts are making landlords pick up the debt . |
| 12 | Motown , a leading black record company , is now making moves to set up a Nashville branch . |
| 13 | Her enthusiasm did not , however , encompass all the complexities that would be involved in such a project , from researching the fabric to preparing special screens for printing and educating machinists to make up the dresses in a traditional way . |
| 14 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 15 | A re-occurrence of the ‘ brief chat ’ approach , leaving members to pick up the grammar and the context will not be a happy omen for the new authorities . |
| 16 | Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds . |