Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty were to be converted into gun-sloops , by shoring up the bows to accommodate a 24-pounder [ 11-kg gun ] … |
| 2 | Santa Barbara village street was deserted , except for Inés just opening up the shop to take in the milk left by the farmer . |
| 3 | The committee which drew up the Act included a large representation from the Finnish National Board of Forestry . |
| 4 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 5 | This afternoon security men were wiring up the holes caused when a hedge bordering the planned clinic was set alight . |
| 6 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 7 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 8 | Put them in now , before autumn gales and winter blasts make the plants rock at their roots , and frost loosens up the soil to compound the damage . |
| 9 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 10 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 11 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 12 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 13 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 14 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 15 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 16 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 17 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 18 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 19 | Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening . |
| 20 | So the state has no had to tighten up the law to cut the cost . |
| 21 | Douglas Hurd 's announcement on Friday that he will try to tighten up the law relating to the licensing of these parties should certainly address itself to that aspect of the problem . |
| 22 | The sort of argument just presented emphasizes that large organizations are not monolithic and that attempts to tighten up the system to make them so do not necessarily yield improvements . |
| 23 | Following a critical report about screening , the Imperial Cancer Research Fund plans to tighten up the programme to catch victims earlier — saving up to 1,000 women a year . |
| 24 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 25 | Dracula walking up the brickwork to claim her ? |
| 26 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 27 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 28 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 29 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 30 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |