Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boro will be among the clubs stepping up their recruitment as their mid-table finish in North One proved they are some way short of promotion standard . |
| 2 | They met in Sion College , and , following some lengthy discussions drew up their list of proposals for church government and church discipline . |
| 3 | The chlorophyll traps make up their electron deficiency by grabbing them from water molecules sited close by . |
| 4 | River pollution across the region has reached record levels , and a Government Minister has warned farmers who dump their waste in the waterways to clean up their act . |
| 5 | CERN , for instance , is ready to swing over to NT and abandon its Unix boxes because the administration side there is awash with incompatible PCs and Macs and if the techies give up their Unix stations then everybody will be on the same system . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , purity groups and feminist organizations stepped up their pressure with a nationwide campaign . |
| 7 | Hamlet advertisements rely on the ‘ humour of suffering ’ , featuring unfortunates scrabbling under lavatory doors for errant rolls of loo paper or watching airport carousels chew up their luggage : the victim , by lighting a Hamlet cigar , becomes the spiritual victor . |
| 8 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 9 | ‘ My advice is to learn lots of two letter words to bump up your score . |
| 10 | A GRANDFATHER was killed by a single punch as he tried to stop a gang of drunken teenagers ripping up his garden fence while he hosted a family barbecue . |
| 11 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 12 | These words sum up her intention and feelings , expressing the result of two years of preparation for a show that came to mean so much for the many artists participating in the event . |
| 13 | As well as sending the hotel an updated booking position each month , Saga sent a final rooming list four weeks before your departure , confirming the names of clients taking up their allocation of rooms at the hotel . |
| 14 | On a slow surface , both sets of bowlers bowled straight , and the batsmen were loath to take risks to break up their line . |
| 15 | White thistle heads floated up my nose as I struggled to keep up with Duncan , his suspension forks making light work of the ruts and bumps on the ground . |
| 16 | It was an important fundamental assumption of international life in 1880 that no great power contemplated the use of revolutionary methods to break up its rivals . |
| 17 | In this country of robots , minuscule calculators and pocket TV , they use little wooden abacuses to add up your bill . |
| 18 | Manufacturers ran up their mills , factories and works on the edge of existing towns , and their workers were housed in streets of terrace-houses built rapidly on the vacant ground all around the factory . |
| 19 | A horrid brown one with pincers ran up my pyjama leg once and I 've never got over it . |
| 20 | When you woke , at first light , you 'd find an untended llama nosing in your pocket and a party of Thrant flake traders setting up their market all around your bed . |
| 21 | I can announce today that we 're going to put an end to the unco-ordinated and inefficient activities of public utilities digging up our roads . |
| 22 | The reconnaissance parties divided up their gear , to share out the better UK equipment , before COPP 3 sailed in HMS Unbending for a reconnaissance of the beaches between Sciaco and the river Belice , some 15 miles ( 24km ) of coast on the south-west shores of Sicily . |
| 23 | He has no plans to open up his hallway for public viewing . |
| 24 | Should British researchers hold up their hands in horror at this further shameful symptom of the failure of the United Kingdom to innovate ? |
| 25 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 26 | It attracts both long-standing operators brushing up their skills and complete newcomers . |
| 27 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 28 | But Greek knowledge of Egypt , and the Greek presence there , already had a 300-year history when Peukestas put up his notice . |
| 29 | Kellmer Pringle believes that we go too far in asserting that the way parents bring up their children is solely their own concern . |
| 30 | The research is concerned with the ways in which Hindu parents bring up their children in Britain in accordance with their own traditions . |