Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 4 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 5 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 6 | Of the relatively small amount of CDs issued in other currencies , yen and ECU make up the bulk . |
| 7 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 8 | The amp 's master volume pot , headphone socket and mains switch make up the remainder of front panel controls . |
| 9 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 10 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 13 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 16 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 17 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 18 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 19 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 20 | Transvaal turn up the heat |
| 21 | As the Revenue only allow a 10% mark up the tax gains can not exceed 1.5% of the turnover put through the company . |
| 22 | A full remission was maintained by avoidance of dairy products but in long term follow up the sensitivity was not persistent . |
| 23 | The Chandleresque tones on the promotional tape take up the tale : ‘ … downtown Cheltenham , gee , what a place . ’ |
| 24 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 25 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 26 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 27 | The voice possesses neither sufficient depth nor weight , and the technique is often found wanting — literally hundreds of interfering aspirates break up the continuity between sound and text . |
| 28 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |