Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 2 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |
| 3 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 4 | The rule also pushes up costs , since a non-bank can not route all its card business through its main finance department . |
| 5 | The sound of laughter apparently conjures up starlings for the people . |
| 6 | However , I 'm leaving work soon to take up fostering teenagers , so this should leave me more time to devote to campaigning . |
| 7 | Museums like the Science Museum now built up collections of enormous value to the historian of science , for the provenance of the pieces is known , and we can only judge past science when we know what could be done with the tools available . |
| 8 | Does your child often tear up drawings when they go wrong ? |
| 9 | Re-immersion in the Ministry followed this prolonged servility , but a breakthrough came with the Fifties publication of An Asiatic Romance , a satirical fantasy explosively pointing up bureaucracy 's absurdity and irrelevance in a world reduced to violence and cannibalism . |
| 10 | The candidate dubbed himself ‘ the comeback kid ’ and his campaign steadily picked up steam . |
| 11 | AN independent inquiry yesterday backed up allegations that a South African police ‘ death squad ’ had killed anti-apartheid activists . |
| 12 | The relativist often sets up standards of mutual understanding which are unrealistically high , and when we fail to reach them claims that understanding is impossible . |
| 13 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 14 | So here we see again that whilst most diets are ineffective in reducing inches and cellulite , my new diet again came up trumps . |
| 15 | But he could n't see any opening locally to take up farming on his own . |
| 16 | The person repeatedly sets up situations so that they are caught and , figuratively , kicked as though a Kick Me sign were pinned on their back . |
| 17 | A second king now took up residence in the Tower of London . |
| 18 | Their name often conjures up visions of ‘ star wars ’ , with ground-based free-electron lasers destroying incoming ballistic missiles as part of the US Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) . |
| 19 | Women her age usually give up sex — she 's a few months older than me , you know . |
| 20 | There is no simple answer in an uncertain world where monitoring and enforcement also use up society 's scarce resources . |
| 21 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |
| 22 | Sisters or brothers are often close , and youngsters of the same age often strike up friendships ; but other horses may become friends for no apparent reason . |
| 23 | The directors and executives of Equity Funding simply made up insurance policies to inflate the company 's business and hence improve its share prices . |
| 24 | Putting a negative bias on the gate simply frees up electrons living in the surface states , which promptly ( within 1ms ) undeplete the layer . |
| 25 | The male then took up guard , fanning the eggs constantly with his large pectorals and turning upside down to fan them as well . |
| 26 | The branch then help up posters and leafleted in Victoria Square , meeting with some friendly responses as well as some regrettable abuse . |
| 27 | In 1991 results of serum tests and ultrasonography before 28 weeks ' gestation together made up 38% of the indications leading to a prenatal karyotypic confirmation of fetal trisomy 21 . |
| 28 | Simon Halliday 's sensational defence-splitting run is brought to a halt by Gavin Hastings ' tackle — but not before the England winger gets his pass away to set up Dewi Morris 's try . |
| 29 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 30 | The Railside Revival Fund also put up cash for replacement gates at the North end of the station and working replicas of old lamps at the subway entrances . |