Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research was then produced by Jeff Woods from the Institute of Food Research which backed up part of Sam Weller 's argument . |
| 2 | Erm the education side you picked up university and school fees . |
| 3 | She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro . |
| 4 | This training , quite different from the acquisition of knowledge , skill and technique which makes up education today , will be directed towards the understanding of one 's self and releasing the unique potential of each person . |
| 5 | The 16-tonnes Shear Pack is the remotely controlled machine which cuts up fuel assemblies ready for the next stage in reprocessing , the chemical separation of the various elements . |
| 6 | Dr Hamish Inglis says : ‘ Once you have had a cold you build up immunity to that particular virus . |
| 7 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 8 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 9 | In the half it used up £21m of this provision , and the net cash outflow of the group was £40m . |
| 10 | Erm , now what you do with this , these sections is of course you build up information over time . |
| 11 | Diférance is the force behind , or rather in language ; it produces the effects of difference which make up language . |
| 12 | SINEAD O'CONNOR has received support from a group which tore up photos of the Pope outside New York 's St Patrick 's Cathedral . |
| 13 | The microphone may be built into the camera , in which case it is an omnidirectional microphone which picks up sound in a very general way . |
| 14 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 15 | The resolution demands that Libya should hand over two men suspected of planting a bomb which blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988 with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 16 | Some rich toff she met up West , I dare say ? ’ |
| 17 | See the old man was saying when he was doing Salisbury Plain they blew up couple of and a couple of |
| 18 | He had been visiting the island since 1935 and during his internment as a prisoner of war he worked up plans to establish an observatory on the island after the war . |
| 19 | The next day I rang up Roger Penrose . |
| 20 | The idea of an " objective view " may suggest that there is one true body of knowledge which makes up History . |
| 21 | Spring snow has a low-friction surface which opens up acres of gentle offpiste perhaps not steep enough to ski when powder-covered . |
| 22 | What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place . |
| 23 | Its 20 staff support two distributors and 11 resellers across Ireland and in the six counties north of the border which make up Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | But Jeffrey Katzenberg , chairman of Walt Disney , says : ‘ She seems to be a person who stirs up publicity for herself by attacking her directors and leading men . |
| 25 | Got home safely , did yer , that night we spent up West ? ’ |
| 26 | At tea-ti me the next day he picked up Catherine at her flat , noticing that she was looking rested and pretty even if he was feeling jaded and disaffected . |
| 27 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 28 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 29 | It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power . |
| 30 | Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife . |