Example sentences of "'s [adv] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 2 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 3 | Compaq Computer Corp accompanied its new product blitz yesterday with the news that it will no longer publish suggested list prices for its machines in the US — but unlike IBM Corp with its mainframes , it 's not tearing up the price list . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 6 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 7 | And so when you , so it means that the Dutch are leaders , so it 's , it 's kind of , that 's how putting up the communications empire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |