Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ She appears when I am alone clearing up the bar . |
| 2 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 3 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 4 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 5 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 6 | Regulators are busily clearing up the mess . |
| 7 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 8 | The tale goes that a little while back , IBM Corp was using street names , reportedly from the Palo Alto town map , as its product code names — Sierra , Summit perhaps — and had been carefully working up the map , so that all you had to do to put a top IBMer into a real flap was to pick a name from the map a couple of streets up from the most recent one you 'd heard of and ask how that product was coming along . |
| 9 | And now societies still interested in the conversion possibility will be carefully weighing up the reception given to the Guardian scheme compared with Abbey 's . |
| 10 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 11 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |
| 12 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 13 | We were soon building up the idea of productivity … |
| 14 | Its arms clutched these objects as they were individually passed up the ladder to its niche : followed by its disembodied head , with a physiognomy very close to that of the photographs of the deceased . |
| 15 | Today they were simply soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying a tour of the province 's most popular sites , including a shopping trip to Belfast city centre and a visit to the Giant 's Causeway . |
| 16 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 17 | I do not want to make too much of them , but there are bogus applications and they are completely clogging up the system . |
| 18 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 19 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 20 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 21 | Motorola , Mace says , is still cleaning up the part and does n't want to announce pricing or general availability until later in the year . |
| 22 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
| 23 | She 's probably heating up the mince pies so we can have them hot when we 're sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree trying to guess what the wrapped up prezzies are . |
| 24 | Datacraft , a $70m Australian integrator , is also picking up the stuff . |
| 25 | It is also speeding up the installation of cab radios linked to signal boxes , and is adopting major changes in management practice to ensure that the safety measures are properly implemented . |
| 26 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 27 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 28 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 29 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 30 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |