Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 3 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 4 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 5 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 6 | She moved when he came in , her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel , her breasts breaking the surface . |
| 7 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 8 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 9 | But all religions have had their mystical failures who have used their experiences to prop up the ego rather than transcend it and whose behaviour has been very odd indeed . |
| 10 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 11 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 12 | Outside Europe international finance would pool its resources to open up the biggest prize of all — the vast reservoir of cheap labour awaiting Western exploitation in China . |
| 13 | Because of the limits on income support payments there is increasing evidence of a shortfall between benefit levels and home fees , with resulting pressure on individual residents and their families to make up the deficit . |
| 14 | That is why Britain should base its efforts to cable up the country on optical fibre , rather than on an obsolescent technology |
| 15 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 16 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 17 | A rag-tag convoy in half-tracks and armoured cars passed by City Hall , their outriders churning up the flower beds . |
| 18 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 19 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 20 | It 's putting a power into the hands of faceless Directors , picked by the Government , just as they pick their friends to head up the privatised National Industries . |
| 21 | Everyone went mad , stripping off their tops to soak up the sun , doing handstands and laying out tents and kit to dry — until the rain started again ! ’ |
| 22 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 23 | Once again , although men are capable of this too , the ability is less marked , and many will rely on their women to pick up the intangible clues , or to decode their own shadowy impressions for them . |
| 24 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 25 | My father was one of them , and when ‘ Buddy Can You Spare a Dime ? ’ topped what was then the hit parade , its lyrics summed up the poverty , dependence and despair of the millions of poor throughout the world . |
| 26 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 27 | ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life . |
| 28 | In the case of the Anglican Church , whose buildings make up the largest group of ecclesiastical structures , there exists a quite involved and considered procedure which is defined by the Pastoral Measure of 1983 . |
| 29 | Several Trade Unions agreed to support the Communist application , among them the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , whose votes made up the bulk of those recorded for Communist affiliation at the Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party . |
| 30 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |