Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes ate up Nicandra 's beaded satin , and shifted disapprovingly from Lalage 's muslins — a clothes snob to the last . |
| 2 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 3 | A flexing of the green planes making up Bryn 's face could have been interpreted as a smile . |
| 4 | PLANS to spruce up Middlesbrough 's cemeteries are in the pipeline . |
| 5 | Meanwhile children bring outgrown favourites … hoping , like the writers to step up Oxfam 's sales of second hand books . |
| 6 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 7 | Nazis carve up girl 's face |
| 8 | Moves to clean up Britain 's heavily polluted cities and countryside were welcome , but without resources the proposed measures were merely wishful thinking and would prove a cosmetic exercise . |
| 9 | THE FRENCH aerospace company , Matra , and Hawker de Havilland of Australia have joined forces to set up Australia 's first space company . |
| 10 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 11 | THE Japanese government is expected to introduce further measures to prop up Tokyo 's fragile stock market next week , following a meeting between the ‘ big four ’ stockbroking companies and the Ministry of Finance yesterday . |
| 12 | Since trustbusters broke up America 's Bell system in 1983 , AT&T 's biggest switch-customers have been the seven regional ‘ Baby Bells ’ born of the break-up . |