Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jam and Lewis soundtrack powers up some fairly physical action sequences , and there is a surprising amount of killings . |
| 2 | Their only son at the time , a cousin of my father 's called William Bayles Brown , went out on Cotherstone Moor in a snow storm to gather up some sheep , and never came back . |
| 3 | And they n have now claimed exemption , so any child or any person who has n't got income using up all their basic allowances should apply to banks or building societies not to deduct their tax |
| 4 | I tell you what , car 's a bit frozen up this morning |
| 5 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 6 | Coyle signs up another Scot |
| 7 | A secret report obtained by The Northern Echo says the authority has earmarked just £590 for publicity and advertising in a bid to drum up more visitors . |
| 8 | ‘ We haul the son a' beetch up that mast now , leetle dog . |
| 9 | Brian Anderson , the Quakers ' club secretary , added : ‘ It 's awful to hear of a young fan ending up this way . |
| 10 | The Government has indicated an intention to set up some 20 such colleges in Inner City areas . |
| 11 | He was using my car to pick up another girlfriend at the airport . |
| 12 | In general , there are many situations without a check in which enough of the energy of the returning hammer will be absorbed to prevent the hammer reaching the string for a second time , but not enough to stop the hammer bouncing up some way towards the string . |
| 13 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 14 | I agree , sometimes I can tell you I have witnessed a hunt and on a cold , frosty morning when er about forty or fifty horses are thundering across the ploughed field , it 's enough to p the power of that sight is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up that 's not what we are against the hunter that came to me and says Eh up lad , I wo n't go drag hunting because I 'm sixty years old , I 've done it all my life and I like the ride , I like to be there I never see a fox killed that 's fact , it 's in the video . |
| 15 | This study showed up some fascinating differences : the figurative pieces — small models of porcupines , antelopes and so on — showed no convincing evidence for quantisation , but the geometric pieces did , as can be seen in the frequency charts of the weights ( fig.9.5 ) . |
| 16 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 17 | From time to time , following a particularly embarrassing CIA fiasco , the American president plucks up enough courage to clip its wings . |
| 18 | Walking : There are several pleasant walks around the resort , while the Patscherkofel cable car opens up some spectacular hiking trails . |
| 19 | According to the standard description , a long shot of a human figure is one in which the figure takes up half to two thirds of the height of the picture . |
| 20 | With such idle thoughts , I repaired to my virginal couch to stack up some zeds in the sleep bank . |
| 21 | Aha , when the pantomime started up that was just carried on in there . |
| 22 | And it 's my intention to keep up this analysis , er , for as long as it takes , probably to the end of my life . |
| 23 | The discussions are close to a conclusion and I understand that my hon. Friend will shortly be writing to the industry to clear up some of the remaining points , which will isolate the relatively few issues to be settled . |
| 24 | The lawyers walked at the elbow of the landlords : a dispute about a ditch , a border , rights of way , and the landlord stood by , the peasants fought , the lawyers on both sides charged , delayed , charged some more , until the double ruin of plaintiff and defendant delivered up both sides into the proprietor 's hands . |
| 25 | One day the married niece asked if she could use Auntie 's old sewing-machine to run up some curtains : her own machine had broken down . |
| 26 | Her opinion of her benefactor leapt up another few notches as she followed his messenger through to the tiny kitchen , where the porter dumped his box on the only available surface and bent to open the fridge . |
| 27 | The wind picks up some snow , or it is snowing gently , as I snow hook the dogs to sort her out . |
| 28 | The Rock picks up several points made in earlier Criterion commentaries . |
| 29 | And there are 150 members of the Royal Commonwealth Pool 's own judo club to back up that claim . |
| 30 | For example , if one branch of a lineage puts up some ‘ core land ’ ( i.e. land of substantial symbolic meaning for the lineage 's patrimony ) for sale , another branch will buy it instead of some more fertile outlying land in order to maintain intact the honour ( or symbolic capital ) of the lineage . |