Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars . |
| 2 | I was remembering some of the facts I built up from the data you brought me . |
| 3 | You hook up with the people on the same trip and work it from there . ’ |
| 4 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 5 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 6 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 7 | He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B. |
| 8 | But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama . |
| 9 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 10 | They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch . |
| 11 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 12 | Captain David Lloyd-Owen 's LRDG patrol also turned up at the rendezvous and he recalls his first meeting with him . |
| 13 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 14 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 15 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 16 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 17 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 18 | I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry . |
| 19 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |
| 20 | It is understood that these solicitors ( Norton Rose ) have asked claimants to look to their own insurers first and that any claims in addition will be met up to the £2,700 Convention limit . |
| 21 | God knows what lie she 'd have made up to the staff , and they 'd have believed her . |
| 22 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 23 | A high concentration builds up in the fish which are a staple part of the Cree and Inuit 's diet . |
| 24 | A report from the Lower Franconian town of Kitzingen in May 1943 , dealing particularly with opinion among academics , salespeople , and the bourgeoisie — groups which had earlier tended to be pro-Nazi in their sympathies — stated that ‘ a disgust about the Party was building up among the people , and a rage which would one day boil over ’ . |
| 25 | The costs of outbreeding may include the risks of infections from pathogens carried by the partner and the breaking up in the offspring of co-adapted complexes of genes found in the parents . |
| 26 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 27 | My family have lived in Anglesey for 500 years , mostly as parsons , and I am deeply tied up with the people and landscape . |
| 28 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 29 | If a decision is made to abandon the launch at height , it is safer to release first and then to lower the nose , as this prevents the risk of the cable parachute opening and flying up over the aircraft . |
| 30 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |