Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dot spooned up the bottom from where it was cool and milky . |
| 32 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 33 | She wore a pale blue suit , skirt slit up the thigh for combat , and a white blouse . |
| 34 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 35 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 36 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 37 | HM Inspectorate helped in various ways and Statistics Division of the Scottish Office Education Department drew up the sample of schools at short notice . |
| 38 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 39 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 40 | The Treasury Select Committee will have fun discussing the precise significance of that measure , which is another attempt to talk up the economy and persuade consumers that it is all right to spend now . |
| 41 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 42 | Patrick heard her little car passing up the avenue . |
| 43 | However , Western scientists allege that the Russians are exaggerating the dangers in a bid to raise funds to clean up the wreck . |
| 44 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 45 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 46 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 47 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , Lady Alethea and Gilbey fled to Italy . |
| 48 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 49 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 50 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 51 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 52 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 53 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 54 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 55 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 56 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 57 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 58 | The implementation of the recommendation to set up the Crown Court is recounted in a later chapter , but we should note here the implications for the Lord Chancellor . |
| 59 | Countries bordering the Baltic have agreed , as a result of the summit , to implement an emergency programme to clean up the Sea , with a target of halving the inflow of harmful substances by 1995 . |
| 60 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |