Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 2 | from the paper bank and four hundred pounds worth of grant , two hundred from the county council and two hundred from the district council , so added up car park . |
| 3 | The diatom analysis was sensitive enough to pick up land use changes : lake records detected pollen change , showing variation in vegetation , but it was the coincidence of the onset of acidification with the industrial revolution , its rapid acceleration after the Second World War when the consumption of fossil fuels leapt up , and the appearance of industrial metals , which made the conclusive link . |
| 4 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 5 | Hyperodapedon and other rhynchosaurs had a barrel-shaped body to accommodate a large gut for the slow digestion of plant material ; they could not grind up plant food with their teeth , but may have been able to ‘ ruminate ’ , like a modern cow . |
| 6 | These people no longer chat up Joe Blow of Idaho : they talk to Wall Street analysts and to serious-money managers across America . |
| 7 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 8 | How will that be possible , given that Labour wishes to phase out nuclear , which could easily push up carbon dioxide emissions by at least 10 per cent . |
| 9 | Against doctor 's advice , and protected by specially made up mesh clothing , he continued to the finish . |
| 10 | She like woke up Monday morning , she there was four empty vodka bottles . |
| 11 | Brazil 's eventual choice is clear , if unpalatable : either forgo a quota system which could help raise and stabilise prices , or enter the quota system but formally give up market share to other producers . |
| 12 | The Association is a company limited by guarentee , not having any paid up share capital . |
| 13 | Graham Bell and Ronald Duncan were two seconds off the pace , about 60 yards , and Martin Bell , still working up snow time after his knee operation , three seconds . |
| 14 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 15 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |
| 16 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 17 | This button does n't just show you what directory you 're currently in , but also pops up File Manager . |
| 18 | It has also beefed up debt collection by the simple expedient of using the phone instead of relying on writing to people for all its credit control . |
| 19 | He also picked up £40 cash . |
| 20 | There was n't any violence between prisoners in the dining hall — it was mainly smashing up prison property — but there was some violence towards the officers . |
| 21 | On the other hand , wallmounted fittings do n't take up table space , have no trailing flex and can be properly directed to your reading material . |
| 22 | And I ca n't phone up WordPerfect Corp and say |
| 23 | Simply putting up speed limit signs , then , is known not to work . |
| 24 | right , Craig 's just about to beat up Jane man , and he 's hitting her because she 's meant to have taped over something and I 'm taping over even more of it now ! |
| 25 | Black Agnes was outraged , declaring that she would never yield up Dunbar Castle to the English , despite her traitor husband , and she was now seeking help . |
| 26 | Big business interests have been quietly buying up Latvia match tickets to ensure seats for their clients at the Republic game . |
| 27 | I am therefore setting up Exe Directory . |