Example sentences of "[verb] up [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 2 | The automatic barriers rose up and the cavalcade swept through to the Palace . |
| 3 | She was relieved when the mini-cab drew up and the driver was not the usual small foreigner but a stern-looking English woman : Brian was not rude to people like that . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't be a footballer when you grow up and the girls ’ toilets are messy . ’ |
| 5 | Her face became blue , the veins in her neck swelled up and the pupils of her eyes were huge . |
| 6 | It 's Your pipes get clogged up and the bore down the middle gets thinner and thinner so the water sort of hardly trickles through . |
| 7 | Hurry up cos the candles have nearly gone down , right |
| 8 | After the cross-country phase , the penalties are added up and the competitor with the fewest penalties wins . |
| 9 | The value of the ‘ pearls ’ each family has collected is then added up and the family with the highest number is the winner . |
| 10 | This new lot have come up because the landowners are fools . |
| 11 | The motor throttled up and the car screamed away . |
| 12 | The road system built up since the Romans had come to serve a much heavier traffic load in the later Middle Ages as the county became wealthier . |
| 13 | Quickly and inexorably , however , the evidence built up that the man in military hospital at Buchanan Castle , Drymen , was not Rudolf Hess . |
| 14 | He was the inventor of water pick-up troughs laid between the rails , whereby a scoop lowered into the trough from the locomotive or tender allowed additional water to be picked up whilst the train was running , thus making possible much longer non-stop runs . |
| 15 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 16 | Sales had picked up and the paper was now established . |
| 17 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 18 | ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or |
| 19 | Sycorax was there when the baby was born , but she crumpled up when the infant was put in her arms by Ariel . |
| 20 | If things go wrong inside a tin , gases build up and the contents swell and the whole thing explodes … |
| 21 | During June and July , heavy cloud may at times build up and the weather can become very humid . |
| 22 | It is flown there as the alternative to the massive O-dako or rectangular Edo kites , largely because its three-spar construction enables it to be rolled up when the spine is removed . |
| 23 | Category A debt 's interest will be paid on time with the principal repaid as cash comes in ; interest on B debt will be rolled up and the capital not repaid until all A debt is redeemed . |
| 24 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 25 | It happened at New York 's Museum of Natural History in 1976 , and the experiments had to be wound up because the funding stopped . |
| 26 | If the foundation is wound up because the loan agreement ends , what happens ? |
| 27 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 28 | Finally , you can apply to have your debtor made bankrupt or , if a company , to be wound up if the amount you are owed is not paid to you . |
| 29 | Only a small amount of sand is sucked up if the air flow is kept low . |
| 30 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |