Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 2 | Attempts to scale up these systems beyond their intended domain have met with little success . |
| 3 | His biggest moment came ten years ago when his marvellous mare Sobarattled up 11 wins , including the valuable Stewards ' Cup at Goodwood . |
| 4 | Ad hoc groups like the North-South and Israel/Palestine Working Groups head up different projects with a style that makes for continuity . |
| 5 | The gradient of the swash bar on its seaward side appears to be related to the nature of the waves , short waves building up steeper gradients than long ones . |
| 6 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |
| 7 | A secret report obtained by The Northern Echo says the authority has earmarked just £590 for publicity and advertising in a bid to drum up more visitors . |
| 8 | A BRITISH soldier beat up four women after a drinking binge . |
| 9 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 10 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 11 | In a perverse way , the new utopia dredged up ancient ways of doing things which capitalism a few decades earlier had threatened to abolish . |
| 12 | But they do blame the Hunt Saboteurs who organised the demonstration in Cambridgeshire and sent a bus to Milton Keynes to pick up young supporters . |
| 13 | We will encourage all schools to open up these facilities to local people in the evenings , at weekends and in school holidays . |
| 14 | But while some rumours are harmless — like the persistent one about certain restaurants serving up dead dogs — others can be very damaging for businesses , especially in the volatile electronics sector . |
| 15 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 16 | The development of British industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries opened up new avenues for achieving success and becoming part of the upper strata . |
| 17 | She nudged him as the sleek dark head of a seal bobbed up scant yards from where they were . |
| 18 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |
| 19 | Dressed in an embroidered , peasant blouse from Oxfam and a frilly skirt , she stabbed at the Turkey carpet with her stiletto heels sending up little whorls of dust and leaving pockmarks in her wake . |
| 20 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 21 | With such idle thoughts , I repaired to my virginal couch to stack up some zeds in the sleep bank . |
| 22 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 23 | There was the matter of box-office takings and in essence the drive for respectability was part of the attempt to build up larger audiences . |
| 24 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 25 | The lawyers walked at the elbow of the landlords : a dispute about a ditch , a border , rights of way , and the landlord stood by , the peasants fought , the lawyers on both sides charged , delayed , charged some more , until the double ruin of plaintiff and defendant delivered up both sides into the proprietor 's hands . |
| 26 | One day the married niece asked if she could use Auntie 's old sewing-machine to run up some curtains : her own machine had broken down . |
| 27 | Ones such as , ‘ powerful plain pistons ’ , convey the sense of abruptness and force needed in the beginning while ones such as ‘ speed throws up strange shapes ’ slip from one word to the other giving a feeling of velocity . |
| 28 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 29 | On his return to Britain , Haworth took up academic appointments , first at Imperial College , London , then at the University of St Andrews , Scotland . |
| 30 | However , vibration of sounds at 800 cycles per second and below is the limit of information , the vibrator picks up unwanted sounds which may drown the signals which you want to receive . |