Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 4 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 5 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 6 | But some believe the DoH has stopped short of adequate advice , while others believe the new guidance opens up the system to abuse . |
| 7 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 8 | Administrative support posts are becoming increasingly attractive to men and this broader approach to the core subjects opens up the market of applicants to both sexes who wish to work as part of the executive office management team . |
| 9 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 10 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 11 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 12 | Main picture : The uncluttered bedroom sums up the atmosphere of the house |
| 13 | The game is a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up where your aircraft zooms up the screen to greet the enemy troops zooming down to kill you ( surprise , surprise ) . |
| 14 | This process provides the manufacturer with more of a profit because the bacon soaks up the salt and water which increases its weight . |
| 15 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 16 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 17 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 18 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 19 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Constantine picks up the thread . |
| 21 | Ken McRobb rounds up the rest of the World Cup news . |
| 22 | This inelegant but graphic import from American business vocabulary sums up the relevance of finance to the building surveying practice . |
| 23 | With this paragraph in the preface to Newsletter Writing and Production Handbook for the Spirited Journalist , editor Alfonso B Deza sums up the philosophy of the handbook . |
| 24 | British Mogul Champion Neil Munro sums up the problem . |
| 25 | The final scene sets up the image of Suzannah and the Elders echoing the painting while reinforcing Tassi and Cauley 's conspiracy against Artemesia in the scene before . |
| 26 | For example , Chafe sums up the expression of givenness as follows : |
| 27 | Big satin bows now adorn the magnificent marble fireplaces , golden ivy trails up the banister , and filmy white voile and translucent glass baubles float across the dining room mantelpiece . |
| 28 | The sun sucks up the water into the sun . |
| 29 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 30 | Oh shame it 's a bloke works up the bank |