Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 5 | Kids eat up the money . ’ |
| 6 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark . |
| 9 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 10 | When it had gone she turned to watch the white waves roll up the beach then roll back . |
| 11 | Chekov 's melodramatic last words sum up the film quite neatly : ‘ Well I guess this is goodbye ! ’ |
| 12 | Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder . |
| 13 | Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself . |
| 14 | If branches take up the suggestions made in this paper they may find themselves having to increase annual expenditure . |
| 15 | Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous . |
| 16 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 17 | The voice possesses neither sufficient depth nor weight , and the technique is often found wanting — literally hundreds of interfering aspirates break up the continuity between sound and text . |
| 18 | The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA . |
| 21 | The landscape manager faces major practical difficulties due to lack of basic information , including the extent and location of the individual elements of land cover ( woodlands , moorlands , farmland , etc ) or the way in which these elements make up the landscape . |
| 22 | In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population . |
| 23 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out . |
| 26 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 27 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 28 | Twenty green-minded companies set up the network with the aim of raising awareness of environmental issues . |
| 29 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 30 | There is a little poem by Ogden Nash from which a couple of ( long ) lines sum up the danger excellently . |