Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santa Barbara village street was deserted , except for Inés just opening up the shop to take in the milk left by the farmer . |
| 2 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took him half an hour 's fast driving up the autobahn to reach the disaster point . |
| 6 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Chinaman was suffering terrible toothache , so he phoned up the dentist to make an appointment . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 12 | So the state has no had to tighten up the law to cut the cost . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dracula walking up the brickwork to claim her ? |
| 17 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 18 | She was walking up the Mound to do the lunch shift at the Right and Wrong . |
| 19 | In what seemed to him to be the far distance he could see Mariana and the President climbing up the meadow to meet him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 22 | Before picking up the phone to place a brief , it is important to consider the following : |
| 23 | You could be passing up the chance to obtain the most loving , loyal friend anyone could wish for . |
| 24 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 25 | The Telford church is a suitable place to start and you can just angle up the hillside to gain the ridge to Creag Ruadh , the red crag , a good first viewpoint . |
| 26 | Dana would n't give up the chance to shine in front of all the heads of the fashion world . |
| 27 | Visitors should not be put off by the modern appearance of this roof , nor by the notice on the gate to the abbey field which indicates a slight trek back along the lane to Abbey Farm to pick up the key to view St Leonard 's Church , Kirkstead . |
| 28 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 29 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 30 | Right do we want to set up the mouse to display the environment , or what ? |