Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should still be inside , keeping up the pressure until he forced the truth out of her . |
| 2 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 3 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 4 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |
| 5 | Willie did so and soon picked up the melody until he almost began to enjoy it . |
| 6 | So always start with the minimum amount and gradually build up the tones until you reach the strength that emphasises , rather than overpowers . |
| 7 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 8 | As always , remember to practise sl-ow-ly at first and only build up the tempo as and when the part begins to feel comfortable . |
| 9 | Below the nesting area the slopes were rich with vegetation , enriched by bird-droppings , and we were climbing up the slope when we became aware that a polar bear with a big cub was ‘ grazing ’ on the slope . |
| 10 | Ironically , the hostel was charging so much in rent that while I did have to stay there , I was better off on the dole with the housing people picking up the bill than in cleaning work and having to pay it myself . |
| 11 | They talked non-stop in an elaborate relay race , one picking up the thread as soon as the other paused for breath . |
| 12 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 13 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 14 | Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’ |
| 15 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 16 | Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover . |
| 17 | The van would arrive every evening to give food to the homeless living on the streets and she was serving up the soup when she saw a man sitting in the doorway . |
| 18 | Sergeant Golding had unfortunately , after many years police service , blotted his copybook in about 1910 , for when called to the scene of a local murder , he allowed the victim 's mother , a widow , to clean up the room before detectives arrived . |
| 19 | She 'd had difficulty in sleeping these past few nights , although she was exhausted from trying to clean up the house after she finished work each day . |
| 20 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 21 | This body in turn can not compel the tip 's owners to clean up the area until regulations provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act have come into force , which may not be until at least 1993 . |
| 22 | Often it is another state-owned body which is used to provide the mechanism for making the payment ; this , as we have seen , provides a way of dressing up the deal as being commercially ‘ normal ‘ . |
| 23 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 24 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 25 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 26 | She could only be ready to pick up the pieces if and when required . |
| 27 | DOG owners in Cleveland have been warned they will have to pick up the tab if their pets go walkabout . |
| 28 | It says about scenes of crime officers cos most burglaries happen er in the early afternoon when when mum 's gone out to pick up the kids before she comes home to cook the tea |
| 29 | You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 30 | Management and employees had 18 months , including 12 months in the new plant itself , to set up the structure before a module had to be shipped . |