Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I goes up the shute . |
| 2 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 3 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ I thought , ‘ to have marched all night , then someone blows up the kitchen ! ’ |
| 4 | I picks up the phone and dialled a special number for the fraud squad . |
| 5 | What d' ya want to know when someone picks up the phone . |
| 6 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 7 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 8 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 9 | This would affirm at least one value of the book review as that legal force which covers up the work . ’ |
| 10 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 11 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 12 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 13 | But after a while straight pieces of knitting cease to be satisfying and we progress to shaping , which speeds up the making-up process and also saves on materials . |
| 14 | It 's the issue of the name which conjures up the problems . ’ |
| 15 | Rhyolites are pale grey or buff-coloured rocks with a micro-crystalline structure and a rather distinctive sugary texture or ‘ feel ’ — like obsidian , they usually have a well-developed banding running through them , which shows up the flow folds in the lava plainly . |
| 16 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 17 | Around most of the walls are black stone excrescences which take the form of a rib-cage projecting from a central spine which grows up the north side of the room and arches up to the centre of the ceiling . |
| 18 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 19 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 20 | It also remains stable when cooked , which opens up the possibility of combining it with Ruby and other new products in the Staley portfolio to create diet markets in areas aspartame is unable to enter — jam , baked beans , canned fruit and vegetables , soft drinks concentrates , desserts and cakes . |
| 21 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 22 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 23 | This weapon is a coercive metaphor or conceptual structuring lens which carves up the world according to its needs and either conditions or eradicates colourless inhabitants by subjecting them to ‘ diagnosis ’ or excluding them from ‘ symbiosis ’ in a perpetual present . |
| 24 | In the Nineties we are rediscovering a way of living and dressing which picks up the threads of that decade and updates it . ’ |
| 25 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 26 | Dr Newton , Harwell 's deputy head of biomedical research must give regular samples for analysis , as does his fellow volunteer , Eric Voice , along with regular sessions under this detector which picks up the gamma rays given off by the plutonium . |
| 27 | Mine is one of those libraries which picks up the tab … |
| 28 | There is chemical pollution discharged into rivers from factories and chemical plants , which clogs up the rivers with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas . |
| 29 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 30 | Speaking through Hosea , God himself sums up the lesson of Israel 's failure : ‘ They were filled , and , being filled , grew proud ; and so they forgot me . ’ |