Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 2 | Coyle signs up another Scot |
| 3 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 4 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 5 | Working on the river bed with a hose attached to a powerful pump , the diver hoovers up gold- bearing alluvium . |
| 6 | Bargain set menus change with the market and are the best choice : Connaught-trained chef whisks up ultra-light leek terrine layered like lasagne , heaps of appley duck with green pasta tower , and neatly balanced fish casserole a la Dieppoise ; there 's also a meaty crab tart ( £3.95 ) and a choc pave as rich as the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | From time to time , following a particularly embarrassing CIA fiasco , the American president plucks up enough courage to clip its wings . |
| 8 | Ones such as , ‘ powerful plain pistons ’ , convey the sense of abruptness and force needed in the beginning while ones such as ‘ speed throws up strange shapes ’ slip from one word to the other giving a feeling of velocity . |
| 9 | The wind picks up some snow , or it is snowing gently , as I snow hook the dogs to sort her out . |
| 10 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 11 | However , vibration of sounds at 800 cycles per second and below is the limit of information , the vibrator picks up unwanted sounds which may drown the signals which you want to receive . |
| 12 | The Rock picks up several points made in earlier Criterion commentaries . |
| 13 | While the typology sets up these principles , only a commentary can be faithful to them and maintain the text 's plurality . |
| 14 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 15 | The study follows up previous research on six case studies for catering , cleaning and laundry services ( ‘ Public Administration' , summer 1987 , forthcoming ) . |
| 16 | For those whose fingers ca n't forget 1-2-3 for DOS , pressing the / key pops up this imitation of the original Lotus menu system |
| 17 | Only the complete work turns up new ground . |
| 18 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 19 | IN STITCHES A make-up girl conjures up false skin while above , the blood on the hunt saboteur in one episode is made from a food colouring mix |
| 20 | A companion to their recent Best of , this compilation gathers up sixteen songs from the ruins of their turbulent eight-year career , from the glorious shambles of their rudimentary punk-folk anthems to their later , less convincing , forays into more exotic territories . |
| 21 | Explain that this is because ice takes up more space than the water that froze to make it . |
| 22 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 23 | Degree opens up new life |
| 24 | ‘ The sun comes up each morning , the Pope 's a Catholic , and Donna Fratelli 's still sticking her nose into other people 's business . ’ |
| 25 | Here the Leeds-Liverpool canal climbs up Five Rise Locks at Bingley . |
| 26 | Sho redds up reffled hopes an steers |
| 27 | Thus , the decision as to whether a file takes up more space in serial or inverted form depends on the ratio of the size of the key and the data items . |
| 28 | Nature backs up helpless reason and stops it going so wildly astray. , How about that rare bird , the man who professes that he is a ‘ complete sceptic ’ ? |
| 29 | The forecasting process opens up basic assumptions , and past marketing strategies , for review , appraisal and criticism . |
| 30 | ‘ Rock'n'roll opens up these floodgates , ’ she insists . |