Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 2 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 3 | The integration of the key system with the hotel management programme , speeds up the traffic at the reception desk since the keycard is authorised automatically when the guest checks in . |
| 4 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 5 | The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals . |
| 6 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |
| 7 | After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 . |
| 8 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 9 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 10 | Page two , trying to pick up the bit at over the bottom of the door . |
| 11 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 12 | Because that way it stays on if you do it the other way it 'll drop off it 's as simple as that , okay , cover the pad and as you spiral up the arm all you need to do is to cover about two thirds of what you 've just done before , just like a spiral , you find the bandages , the more you use those roller bandages of yours the worse they get to control because they lose their , you know , nice and stretchiness , so you just do , cover up the pad at the top , tie always on the top of the arm never underneath here . |
| 13 | Tony 's gon na bring up the lorry at six o'clock sharp on Saturday night . |
| 14 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 15 | ‘ I checked out most of Crevecoeur 's old haunts , ’ he said , consulting his memofile , ‘ and turned up the goods at Alix Micklemas ’ tattoo parlour . ’ |
| 16 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 17 | Cardiff saw its hideously burnt and decomposed head turn to look up the stairwell at them , just as Jimmy and Rohmer heaved the filing cabinet over . |
| 18 | He also took it in turns with other canons to act as verger and lock up the cathedral at night in the shortage of vergers caused by the war . |
| 19 | For a side challenging in Europe Rangers performance was disappointing , but manager Smith fired up the troops at half-time . |
| 20 | For Prescot Round Table is preparing to light up the sky at Rainhill Hospital . |
| 21 | Stepping up the pace at Alton Careers Advisory Service are from the left : Principal advisor , Debbie Dean , senior advisor Paul Barnes , advisor Jackie Lewis and senior assistant advisor Glynis Bravery . |
| 22 | This may all seem trivial , but I wonder how many fishkeepers have possibly given up the hobby at an early stage because they were unaware their fish were dying from nothing more sinister than overfeeding with resultant ammonia/nitrite stress — and nobody told them . |
| 23 | For the same reason , if we ride fast on a ( preferably quiet ) motorbike past a wailing factory siren , when we are approaching the factory the pitch will be raised : our ears are , in effect , gobbling up the waves at a faster rate than they would if we just sat still . |
| 24 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 25 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 26 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 27 | Last night 's mystery was set in an open prison so relaxed that you wondered if the female governor went round tucking up the inmates at night . |
| 28 | ‘ They 'll be bringing up the squares at any minute . |
| 29 | We have seen how McClellan 's system provides a framework for building up the bookstock at each service point . |
| 30 | He had scoured up the ladder at the back and now lay flat on the roof . |