Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 7 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 8 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 9 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 10 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 11 | It plans to fell some of the older trees alongside the lakes to open up the views down the valley . |
| 12 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 13 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 14 | A shift from a presidential system to that of a Prime Minister and Cabinet would make it easier for parties to divide up the rewards of victory between their various factions ( as illustrated by the Japanese model ) . |
| 15 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 16 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 17 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 18 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 19 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 20 | TriStar Pictures snapped up the rights after persuading Julia , 25 , to take the part . |
| 21 | Concern was expressed over the failure of Cala Homes to make up the roads to serve their new houses . |
| 22 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 23 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 24 | Neighbours raised the alarm when they saw flames light up the early-hours darkness in Ferry Road , Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Frequency of the trains had been increased but the swollen crowds filled up the tunnels and the escalators at the interchanges . |
| 26 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 27 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 28 | In nineteen ninety one we 'll all recall the desperate scenes of our television screens of Kurdish refugees scrambling up the mountains , fleeing from Iraq 's Saddam Hussein . |
| 29 | His drive towards restructuring higher education along egalitarian lines opened up the colleges to those from less privileged ‘ proletarian ’ backgrounds and those who showed the correct political disposition . |
| 30 | When the archeaologists dig up the ruins in France at the turn of the next millennium , they may well be confused about what was going on in our time . |