Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sometimes goes the , the colour as it , as it starts to heal up the , colour gets a wee bit lighter |
| 2 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 3 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 4 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 5 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 6 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 7 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc , one of the players , has given up the SparcWare designation used by its Catalyst independent software vendor programme to the group 's new binary-compatible branding scheme . |
| 9 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 10 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 12 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 13 | An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery . |
| 14 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 15 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 16 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 17 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 18 | The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments . |
| 19 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 20 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 21 | According to Rothschilds the introduction of non-certification has speeded up the redemption process by eliminating the need to return share certificates . |
| 22 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 23 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 24 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 25 | Nowadays the holding of dances , raffles , and pub talks along with the fixture has pushed up the sums enormously , although if inflation and house prices are taken into account even £50,000 or over is hardly a fortune for a man who has to find a job and keep a family . |
| 26 | The pressure to make cars lighter , and so more fuel-efficient , has pushed up the proportion of plastic in a typical car , from around 2% of the weight in 1960 to 12% today ( see chart 5 on previous page ) . |
| 27 | When you take it out , you will see the ice has pushed up the cap . |
| 28 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 29 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 30 | Law and order has shot up the list . |