Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad grin lit up Rory 's features . |
| 2 | A stable soil soaks up water , and allows acid to break up bedrock and create more soil . |
| 3 | A third route could be to permit vertical relationships and restraints between domestic producers , or domestic producers and distributors , which made it difficult either for a foreign firm to set up production and gain essential supplies , or for a foreign firm to get access to existing distribution networks . |
| 4 | A powered digger to break up ground . |
| 5 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 6 | Based on the Marvel comic of the same name and filmed back in 1988 , it 's the usual uncomplicated but enjoyable mix of demolition derby and fuck you one-liners , which features Dolph as a leather-clad psycho-avenger tearing up nightclubs with huge guns , using his karate skills on mob bosses and riding round city sewers on his Harley . |
| 7 | Thomson-CSF SA says its Syseca unit won a contract worth several million dollars to provide a turnkey system to send messages between 29 European civil aviation agencies : the contract , awarded by Eurocontrol , which oversees air traffic control across Europe , calls for installing the system by end-1993 , and the contract is part of a vast programme to link up Europe 's air traffic control systems — the present fragmentation is one of the key causes of the air travel delays ; the Central Flow Management Unit system will be based on Syseca 's Aermac product , and will collect flight plans from the World Civil Aviation Network , the SITA airline network SITA and from air traffic control centres ; it will be installed at two central sites , at Haren , Belgium and Bretigny-sur-Orge , France , using Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant systems connected via an X25 packet-switched network . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's good practice , ’ Nutty panted , in a dying effort to keep up morale . |
| 9 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 10 | Deery got to the bye-line with a fine run to set up Ian Adams for Coleraine 's second , but again the home side regained their two goal cushion when Gilmore chipped into the net . |
| 11 | Make a conscious effort to speed up activity in this way . |
| 12 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
| 13 | A little man turned up Friday afternoon , after they got home you know how we 're very susceptible to these market research types ? |
| 14 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 15 | More recent data is available from a long term follow up trial in New Zealand . |
| 16 | Earlier , the Bank of England threw away £10BILLION in a futile attempt to prop up sterling . |
| 17 | Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service . |
| 18 | The trouble was , the transport yard in Page Street was a good place to pick up bits and pieces of worthwhile scrap . |
| 19 | Let me tell you dis much … a good doctor cuts up bodies to make people well . |
| 20 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 21 | The Pack spent a busy evening making up gift parcels to take round to the orphanage and to other people on the Guider 's list . |
| 22 | APR ) for 90 p.c. of the value of the property up to £200,000 with a one-month interest set up fee and six-month early redemption penalty . |
| 23 | A small boy rounds up chickens with a stick twice as long as himself . |
| 24 | After the hassle of dealing with the subtle sunlight of evening , it was a sheer relief to set up tripod at the Moorea Village Hotel , and shoot a few of the guests relaxing at sunset beneath the convenient palm-tree across the still waters of the swimming pool ( figure XX ) . |
| 25 | Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter . |
| 26 | ‘ We read ’ , he read , ‘ in Richard Milward 's unreliable , tendentious and often plainly wrong book Early and Mediaeval Wimbledon that ‘ in 878 a Danish army took up winter quarters just across the river at Fulham . |
| 27 | Secondly we urged that the marginalisation of the area and the social exclusion of many of its people should be addressed by a concerted effort to open up employment opportunities outside West Belfast and by a serious attempt to involve local people in development decisions . |
| 28 | They often discussed his family together and how hard it was for a single man to bring up children alone . |
| 29 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 30 | After a disappointing first round of sales in Texas , where half of the affordable housing is located , the agency extended its offer and advertised a sealed-bid auction to drum up interest . |