Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun sg] [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 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They talked non-stop in an elaborate relay race , one picking up the thread as soon as the other paused for breath . |
| 11 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ‘ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 22 | ‘ And as she and Steve are together it 's not unlikely for him to pick up the phone if it rang . ’ |
| 23 | DOG owners in Cleveland have been warned they will have to pick up the tab if their pets go walkabout . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Browne knew the Masai well and understood how alien such a proposal was to their consensual system of politics , but nevertheless this was the beginning of a long and unavailing effort by the British to set up the laibon as chief of the Tanganyika Masai , until at last in 1933 the current occupant asked to be relieved of his office . |
| 26 | He may even have to set up the maul before he hits the tackler . |
| 27 | The parent will choose , topping up the value if they wish . |
| 28 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 29 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 30 | Er no we had some larger other income erm I 'm turning up the detail as we speak . |