Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 3 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 4 | When I do that , it 's like summat inside of me is pulled out and streaks back up the street , under all the lights , right round the corner to where I ca n't see . |
| 5 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 6 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 7 | She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney . |
| 8 | So an optimistic note for the pub trade , but a pessimistic one for Oxfordshire 's only two-man brewery , because it 's struggling to survive against tough competition from the major breweries and the are concerned that the Government proposals to shake up the brewing industry wo n't really help them . |
| 9 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 10 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 11 | The shore boys were ready for us with slides and ropes , and the local corporation carthorses were ready to be harnessed to the capstan ropes to pull up the beach the Jim and Eliza . |
| 12 | Two skimmers to pole and bloodworm tactics made up the bulk of his 4–1–3 winning weight , pipping England international Alan McAtee ( Elton Tackle ) on 3–13–8 . |
| 13 | A flight of steps led up the mound to the base of the figure . |
| 14 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 15 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 16 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 17 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 18 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 19 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 20 | However , Western scientists allege that the Russians are exaggerating the dangers in a bid to raise funds to clean up the wreck . |
| 21 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 22 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 23 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 24 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 25 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 26 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 27 | It plans to fell some of the older trees alongside the lakes to open up the views down the valley . |
| 28 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 29 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 30 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |