Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got notes to write up and Madame Gebrec 's book to read . ’ |
| 2 | erm My ears pricked up when Mr Waterhouse did in fact say , I though he said that it was n't necessarily help in monetary terms , but some of these people might be willing to help in kind , or in sort of helping as people with some voluntary organisations , and I think , if that was what he meant , I think there again that might be very useful , because voluntary organisations are always looking for people to help . |
| 3 | When people speak of doubt , sooner or later medical images pop up as doubt becomes seen as a sickness of faith . |
| 4 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 5 | Her legs shot up and Samson 's tankard skidded across the counter , spilling the rest of the porter over the floor . |
| 6 | Large generators can overcharge batteries , ultimately destroying them as the electrolyte boils away and the plates heat up and buckle . |
| 7 | ‘ Overall , the forecasts are for a year of slow recovery from the 1991 recession , with production , demand and imports picking up and exports slowing a little ’ he concluded . |
| 8 | The Institute 's new accreditation requirements have been approved and a register of accreditation visitors set up and training commenced . |
| 9 | After moving to Beverly Hills his parents split up when Kiefer was only four years old . |
| 10 | The credits came up and Mike switched the TV off . |
| 11 | Ironically , the Aintree heroes line up as adversaries for the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday — Llewellyn rides Twiston-Davies ' well-backed Captain Dibble , while Party Politics will have stand-in Declan Murphy in the plate . |
| 12 | Fresh targets sprang up and Schellenberg fired six times very fast , again two holes in the heart area on three separate targets . |
| 13 | He knows that if you play games with budgets , costs go up and profits go down . |
| 14 | As the standards of competition became even higher , costs shot up and sponsors came forward to support an activity with high social status and a good media profile . |
| 15 | But because interest rates were expected to drop gradually over the coming 12 months , the view was that by early 1991 confidence would have returned , volumes picked up and prices started to lift — even if only by the inflation rate . |
| 16 | Yes but I mean when families grow up and children start going to work and as Carolyn was saying |
| 17 | HP vice president Wim Roelandts said flatly that it was because of the bad feelings built up when Vittorio Cassoni was running Unix that Unix is n't the dominant operating system today . |
| 18 | Now we are charging blindly down the same path , while families break up and children turn to hooliganism for want of a mother 's essentially female care . |
| 19 | The views of both managers coming up as Mark Kiff looks forward to D-Day . |
| 20 | The visitors were having a great time until suddenly the lights went up and bar staff started howling , ‘ Give us your pots and glasses and start moving on out , PLEASE ! ’ . |
| 21 | The headline improvement is thought to have come about because demand for US-made microprocessors held up while demand for commodity chips for consumer products slumped . |
| 22 | The interviewer will get their names mixed up and Fred Fm — the bald one who does n't sing — will smile and say ‘ just call us all Gloria ’ . |
| 23 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 24 | Profits shot up and stockholders benefitted from rising shares . |
| 25 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 26 | In the hall , a woman gloomily collecting dirty plates and ashtrays looked up as Kelly appeared . |
| 27 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 28 | ‘ Are there hams hanging up and bunches of herbs ? ’ |
| 29 | her arms reached up and offering |
| 30 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |