Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 2 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 3 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 4 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 5 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 6 | This comprised a moonlit cable car ride up the mountains to a creaky farmhouse for cheese fondue , heady wine and oompah-pah music — the perfect way to round off a day 's skiing . |
| 7 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 8 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 9 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 10 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |
| 11 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 12 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 13 | The rural women often become tired of their hard lives in the fields and over the years save up the proceeds from the goods they sell at market . |
| 14 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 15 | The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses . |
| 16 | French retailers hike up the prices of their mature stocks with even more frequency and gusto than their British counterparts , and this can make ready-to-drink claret and burgundy très cher indeed . |
| 17 | Badlands surfers in reflective mood as lumberjack shirt-clad friend summons up the spirits of The Pit ( left ) ; the SAS tighten up ( above ) |
| 18 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 19 | And I read about how dancers burn up the calories , so you 're to order whatever you like . ’ |
| 20 | Acads pick up the pieces as GH-K start to fall apart at the seams |
| 21 | Taekwondo practitioners build up the calluses on their knuckles by performing press-ups on them , although there is evidence that prolonged conditioning in this way causes metacarpal damage . |
| 22 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 23 | ‘ The goats gobble up the vegetation , the pigs dig up the roots and the eggs of tortoises and turtles , and the donkeys trample paths on the hills , causing erosion , so that in the rainy season whole hillsides fall down . ’ |
| 24 | Please do not think that only suicidal people ring up the Samaritans . |
| 25 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 26 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 27 | He has sat and matched the former world amateur champions shoot up the rankings and said : ‘ I 'm glad to see them doing so well but it 's annoying when you know you are as good as them but are not able to do anything about it . |
| 28 | Children pick up the eggs from contaminated food or pets , and the worms hatch out at night . |
| 29 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 30 | Take a camel ride up the slopes or a coach tour around the summit . |