Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sum up the position so far : expenditure on the health services has increased substantially since the last war and with it the volume , range and quality of the health services . |
| 2 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 3 | Even before the debate took place , The Times was able to sum up the situation accurately : |
| 4 | On the Cobbler 's South Peak , Gary Latter ventured up the slab directly above the start of Osirus : Horus E6 6b was the outcome . |
| 5 | Yes , when you erase something , it does n't free up the memory straight away . |
| 6 | This procedure , carried out each generation , could tie up the land indefinitely . |
| 7 | As for the Multiple sclerosis sufferers at Didcot ; they believe there 's enough evidence to give credibility to their treatment , so they 're keeping up the pressure both inside and outside the chamber . |
| 8 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 9 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 10 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 11 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 12 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |
| 13 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 14 | This time she had n't picked up the thread automatically . |
| 15 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 16 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 17 | The soft white animal-like hand picked up the baton again . |
| 18 | ‘ We think someone may have picked up the jeans innocently , and maybe now thinks it 's too late to come forward , ’ a Norfolk police spokesman said . |
| 19 | Most of the front row jumped to their feet and fled up the aisle away from the danger . |
| 20 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 21 | So they warm up the water sometimes , they either blow warm air through or at Stoke Bardolph they whip up the erm sewage with fans which beat air into the water , and the aerobic bacteria digest some of the harmful substances in the sewage . |
| 22 | To help out , the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection . |
| 23 | insy winsy spider climbing up the spout again |
| 24 | Yes , very good , we 're climbing up the league now , week by week . |
| 25 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 26 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 28 | Dumb Why do you like picking up the telephone so much ? |
| 29 | ‘ The hospital say he ca n't be moved for two months yet , ’ said Annunziata , picking up the tray again , ‘ but then il dottore will arrange everything . |
| 30 | ‘ You can guard each other , ’ he said , picking up the loaf again . |