Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 2 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 3 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 4 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 5 | In October 1966 , however , one year after the decision not to take up the option on the book , David V. Picker at UA bought the movie rights . |
| 6 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 7 | The sun gradually ate up the mist until by the afternoon we were in a blazing oven under a burned blue sky . |
| 8 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 9 | Say a prayer and light one of the candles each Sunday in Advent gradually building up the light as Christ 's coming draws nearer . |
| 10 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 11 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 12 | The Act also tightens up the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , 1977 , in respect of services and disclaimer clauses . |
| 13 | The plan also splits up the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research into two units from next month , with the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh being separated from the Babraham Institute , Cambridge . |
| 14 | Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops . |
| 15 | His athletic , shimmying run then set up the second-try for Dewi Morris . |
| 16 | His gaze casually swept up the table instead , skimming the bowed heads and carefully composed expressions until it reached Professor St John Goth , where it stopped short with a sense of shock . |
| 17 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 18 | The sprawling retrospective of his work currently takes up the two vast floors normally devoted by the museum to setting forth the story of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century painting and sculpture . |
| 19 | Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties . |
| 20 | Under the guise of outrage , the Daily Post self-righteously took up the story , forcing the other Fleet Street newspapers to follow suit . |
| 21 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 22 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 23 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 24 | Roy Hattersley 's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform . |
| 25 | The very act of brainstorming often throws up the structure of the answer as well as the main points which it is necessary to cover . |
| 26 | Its rapid post-war development was based upon its close association with trade unionism , already firmly established before 1914 , and it seems likely that the First World War simply speeded up the process of political change . |
| 27 | One teacher indeed summed up the book as portraying religion as a fairy story and a religious festival as like a birthday party . |
| 28 | Gerald Sterling neatly summed up the Conservative case : ‘ Voting Labour means high taxes , high taxes mean less to spend , less to spend means fewer things bought , fewer things bought means fewer things produced , and fewer things produced means less work for everyone . ’ |
| 29 | I was there in September and our group miserably went up the valley from Mayrhofen in the rain and was even more miserable when we reached the summit to find ourselves in a blizzard . |
| 30 | His own worst experience ‘ in the past year , anyway ’ involved a Friday 7pm service from Kings Cross that started late , had no buffet car , and after more stops than the Minster organ finally gave up the ghost at Doncaster . |