Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | David Skinner heads up the project team . |
| 32 | Jed spent most of the afternoon in the parking-lot , wiring up the back seat . |
| 33 | After wiring up the Xmas tree lights and programming the computer , even managed the washing up ! |
| 34 | Once they are removed , all that soil , like the fertilizer , has to go somewhere , and , often as not , it ends up in the watercourse , silting up the stream bed , eroding banks , and worsening flooding . |
| 35 | Not content with this triumph , Joseph Thomas turned his attention to the groyne at the mouth of the harbour which attempted , not very successfully , to prevent sand from the beach silting up the harbour mouth . |
| 36 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 37 | Moon Valley Software 's Icon Hear-It is a program offering lots of fun utilities for brightening up the Window Desktop . |
| 38 | Also high interest rates have the effect of driving up the exchange rate , which in turn can be damaging to exports . |
| 39 | In his final chapter , he notes that the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce identified what he feels ‘ may perhaps be the most important influence of all in driving up the divorce rate , namely the idealization of the individual pursuit of self-gratification and personal pleasure at the expense of a sense of reciprocal obligations and duties towards helpless dependents , such as children , and , our society as a whole ’ ( pp 403–4 ) . |
| 40 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 41 | Short-term money market accounts yielding high interest were abolished , to be replaced by a " Social Development Fund " where short-term money would be pooled to finance the debts of state and local government , blamed by the government as being primarily responsible for driving up the money supply . |
| 42 | This will have the effect of driving up the market price of long bonds , making their yield lower than normal , and perhaps even lower than short-term yields . |
| 43 | ( 4 ) Rumours of a full bid may have the effect of driving up the target company 's share price . |
| 44 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 45 | So an optimistic note for the pub trade , but a pessimistic one for Oxfordshire 's only two-man brewery , because it 's struggling to survive against tough competition from the major breweries and the are concerned that the Government proposals to shake up the brewing industry wo n't really help them . |
| 46 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 47 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 48 | Through sheer organisational brilliance , Barés and de Rose had , by mid-April , built up the Verdun air strength to 226 machines ; a concentration which Falkenhayn , with his policy of security-on-all-fronts was unable , or unwilling , to emulate . |
| 49 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 50 | phoned up the funeral arranger and say my mum 's died , |
| 51 | Markby snatched up the telephone receiver lying on the table in the hall . |
| 52 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 53 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 54 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 55 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 56 | She 's picked up the cryptosporidium organism , which has been found in the reservoir and causes stomach pains , sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 57 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 58 | STOCKBROKERS have picked up the airline habit : flying merrily on heedless of a leakage of cash . |
| 59 | Despite its success in signing up the software community for Destiny , everything is n't roses at Univel Inc at the moment . |
| 60 | The top picture depicted an action ( e.g. , John winding up the toy car ) , and the lower picture depicted a result of the action ( e.g. , the car going ) . |