Example sentences of "[that] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its amazing the number of computer users that pick up a pen or pencil to take a telephone message when they 're sitting in front of a working PC ! |
| 2 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 3 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 4 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 5 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 6 | The conclusions are based , as they have to be , on the smaller bits of behaviour that make up a given style . |
| 7 | The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise . |
| 8 | An additional consequence of this narrow definition has been an emphasis and preoccupation with the chemical and reactive sequences leading to signal generation , with little or no attention given to the materials that make up a biosensor . |
| 9 | Hooker Phil Kearns said : ‘ If winning can inspire so many people than I can put up will the months of hard slog , sleepless nights , aches and pains and fleeting fears of failure that make up a World Cup campaign . |
| 10 | But there was not yet a drug invented , or ever likely to be , that could cope with all the different and complex actions and judgements that make up a round of tournament golf . |
| 11 | Both can be presumed to matter most when and where they are most influential — as in the charting of the interests , concerns and methods of analysis that make up a new academic discipline . |
| 12 | Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives . |
| 13 | They are defined as firms or enterprises whose final output is in some sense non-material , irrespective of the types of occupation that make up a firm 's labour force . |
| 14 | Indeed , in an essay which may be read as a gloss on aspects of S/Z ( with which it is roughly contemporary ) , ‘ The Death of the author ’ , Barthes writes that it is the reader , and not the author , who constitutes the only focus for the multiple writings and codes of which the text is made up : ‘ The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost ’ ( 1977b : 148 ) . |
| 15 | The idea of this quiz is to earn letters that make up a quote by answering the questions correctly . |
| 16 | The opening screen is in fact a text editor that you can use to enter the commands that make up a QBasic program . |
| 17 | This section provides an overview of the various activities that make up a typical risk management programme , and then presents some examples of good practice derived from Engineering Council studies and other sources . |
| 18 | The basic idea is that the cosmid probes that make up a contig should hit cosmid clones which are all hit by one or two YACs . |
| 19 | Third , we do also have a rich zoo of specific objects ( rotators , gliders , blinkers , and an expanding jaw-like configuration of C cells that eats up a universe of D , leaving only structured strings of D ( ’ eaters ' ) ) reminiscent of , but different from , those in Conway 's Life . |
| 20 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 21 | God knows they have trouble enough so IBM would appreciate it if we were perfectly clear on a couple of points that came up a fortnight ago ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 22 | One of the most important steps for the complete colonization of the land was the evolution of herbivorous ( plant-eating ) reptiles , tapping a prolific and nourishing source of food that opened up a new dimension to the ‘ food chain' . |
| 23 | Mannheim had set out a project for the sociology of knowledge that opened up a potentially stimulating area of sociological inquiry . |
| 24 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 25 | He built them a pagoda of solid jade and embellished it with precious gems — not realising that to grow up a dragon must accumulate its own hoard , must steal it from Emperors and princes . |
| 26 | Without wanting to state the obvious , the SJ-20 is a big guitar that takes up a lot of room . |
| 27 | With Mick Talbot in the producer 's chair , this boasts a full-bodied sound that takes up a more relaxed , less esoteric stance than ‘ In Search Of The 13th Note ’ , concentrating its positive energies on the music as well as the lyrics . |
| 28 | Well-established clematis plants develop a large root system that takes up a great deal of water . |
| 29 | That 's a vast erm that takes up a vast erm proportion of the market . |
| 30 | ‘ I expect that takes up a lot of your time ? ’ |