Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 2 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 3 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 4 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 5 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 6 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 7 | An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery . |
| 8 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 9 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 10 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 11 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 12 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 13 | The vote on Mr Craxi has speeded up the disintegration of Italy 's scandal-tainted parties . |
| 14 | According to Rothschilds the introduction of non-certification has speeded up the redemption process by eliminating the need to return share certificates . |
| 15 | When you take it out , you will see the ice has pushed up the cap . |
| 16 | The pressure to make cars lighter , and so more fuel-efficient , has pushed up the proportion of plastic in a typical car , from around 2% of the weight in 1960 to 12% today ( see chart 5 on previous page ) . |
| 17 | For example , children earning 7.25 per cent in TSB 's Firstsave account would get 8.5 per cent if their cash helped pushed up the family 's total savings to more than £5,000 . |
| 18 | I have been impressed with the way Wilkinson has built up the squad over the last few years . |
| 19 | Law and order has shot up the list . |
| 20 | The 22-year-old fashion student has sewn up the opportunity of a lifetime by winning last night 's Northern Ireland Smirnoff Fashion Designer of the Year Award . |
| 21 | Microsoft says it has moved up the publication date of its Win32s application programming interface , a subset of the Win32 application programming interface in NT , to this quarter . |
| 22 | A heavy backlog of cases has snarled up the court process for dealing with non-payers . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't argue the pros and cons of public or private investment per se , but in view of the problems that have arisen it seems to me that if the Government has talked up the price by making rather loud commitments to potential voters , perhaps the Government should spend some of our money overcoming those problems , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The debate over the Education Reform Act , and subsequent developments since then , such as the appeal by the London boroughs of Ealing and Newham against their local Agreed Syllabuses , has shown up the extent of this polarization . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's great and it has opened up the race again , ’ said Mr Holding , 23 . |
| 26 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 27 | The move to diesel has opened up the Gateway car lists , which were once primarily Ford-dominated but which now include European manufacturers such as Peugeot , Citroen and Renault as well as Ford and Vauxhall . |
| 28 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 29 | In Oxford , Labour has used up the housing reserves and still owes £22 million on its council houses . |
| 30 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |