Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this tim the teem hav kept up sum kind of consisstincy by continuwing to loose more games than it haz one . |
| 2 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 3 | An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group . |
| 4 | During July 1690 , demonstrating the French command of the Narrow Seas , small landing parties were put ashore on the Sussex coast to put up posters urging local residents , and especially army and navy officers , to support their former king , a somewhat pointless propaganda exercise , but a much more serious incursion followed . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 6 | The Goldsmith plan to break up BAT has been overtaken by BAT 's decision to do the job itself . |
| 7 | City Comment : Stock Exchange stirs up backwater shares |
| 8 | Car bomb blows up president after only 17 days in office Arab League close to despair Lebanon leader killed . |
| 9 | Those who get housing benefit , but not income support , will find a single person 's rent rebate goes up £1.63 a week . |
| 10 | Car thief cut up bodies , court told |
| 11 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 12 | Quota trading to back up claims made in 1994 was not expected to begin until after 15 September . |
| 13 | In 1737 a Falmouth merchant buying up corn for shipping to London was warned : |
| 14 | The AP man rushed up tot the Shah with a wire that announced : " Teheran : Mossadeq overthrown . |
| 15 | Telly star serves up cheer for homeless |
| 16 | The 30 youngsters from Keldholme School took up plastic sacks and gloves as part of a three-day litter pick to learn about the environment as they help to protect it . |
| 17 | The Community Action Trust put up £5,000 of the money . |
| 18 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 19 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 20 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 21 | All four Scouts sported minor shuriken wounds , swiftly healed , their cinnabar blood closing up gashes like sealing wax . |
| 22 | Quality system procedure two , talks about how the management team pick up suggestions made by yourselves through Q S P Three , and set about making decisions for improvement of the group 's quality system , the service that we provide to our clients . |
| 23 | But he must have endured more mental turmoil as his rookie replacement lit up White Hart Lane . |
| 24 | Leading in with a Simon Templar-style '60s intro , it rips into a raw guitar riff part nicked from old punk chestnut ‘ Jet Boy Jet Girl ’ , Jim Bob ranting eloquently about the state of pop and the industry 's gratuitous use of glamour girl sex to prop up videos by losers like Lionel Richie and Robert Palmer . |
| 25 | N Ireland win sets up Dublin showdown Albania1 |
| 26 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 27 | The Queen gets £7.9 million from the list , the Queen Mother picks up £643,000 and Philip gets £359,000 . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 29 | She pressed the accelerator and the sports car picked up speed . |
| 30 | Major in war zone to cheer up troops |