Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coverage is further restricted because the same titles tend to crop up in each paper . |
| 2 | Enemies unite to clean up Caribbean |
| 3 | SA anti-apartheid groups vow to step up struggle . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the supporters want to set up a petition encouraging Flashman to go . |
| 5 | I know , but when she was saying apparently th like the research was that er people who leave Scotland and go down to , you know the south of England and all that , their words begin to crop up down there . |
| 6 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 7 | Bolstered by Kierson 's flagrant ‘ one previous owner ’ Manc basslines and Mark Lester 's sterling drums , the songs manage to stand up amid the pop-funk ( con ) fusion that sometimes drifts in . |
| 8 | If , on top of this , her income dries up because of her husband 's death , if she did n't have a paid job and her husband was not insured , then her losses begin to mount up . |
| 9 | Supermodels such as Linda Evangelista — used to commanding at least £10,000 just to get out of bed — Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer , who have dominated the world of glamour for so long , will face tough competition as designer labels clamour to sign up actresses Michelle Pfeiffer , Geena Davis and Kim Basinger . |
| 10 | ‘ Although the loss is temporary , I 've noticed that women who have had many pregnancies seem to wind up with thinner hair , ’ says Kingsley . |
| 11 | The old sampan-ladies begin to tie up their wares , wrapping everything in layers of black plastic and hessian sacking . |
| 12 | Pulling a heavily ‘ Suede'-stickered guitar case from under his bed , his eyes seem to light up when he opens it to reveal a cherry sunburst Les Paul . |
| 13 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 14 | It seems the young drivers like to play up to an audience . |
| 15 | 5 The fact of electoral competition , and the role of party programmes in that competition , means that parties try to draw up popular programmes of policies that will appeal to , and secure the electoral support of , the populace at large . |
| 16 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 17 | Scots fail to keep up challenge |
| 18 | Christmas is a good example of this : ten weeks before Christmas arrives , the shops start to fill up with goods which obviously encourage us to dwell on a day that is far ahead in the future . |
| 19 | Australian World Cup tactics help set up May 2 showdown at Twickenham |
| 20 | The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options . |
| 21 | The fair-weather hikers have hung up their boots and retreated indoors and the rest of us have even more of the countryside to ourselves . |
| 22 | The origin and symbolic meaning of some individual motifs and designs are well documented , but the majority can not be traced to any undisputed source , and a number of conflicting mythologies have grown up around them . |
| 23 | THE Yanks have mopped up London-based printing ink company Usher-Walker . |
| 24 | In Darlington , 99 fitness fans have signed up for Swimathon ‘ 92 which takes place at the Dolphin Centre at 5.30 pm tomorrow . |
| 25 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 26 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 27 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |
| 28 | The eight to 10 weeks after schools have broken up for the summer are the peak period for tour operators , and it is only around mid-September that they can judge how successful they have been . |
| 29 | Well yes , because in the schools now they 've started erm some of the schools have taken up celebration , Divali which is coming up in November and erm they celebrate some of the other festivals as well . |
| 30 | Some schools have started up businesses to raise money . |