Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift . |
| 2 | The flames lit up the skyline but there was no sign of Mayne . |
| 3 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 4 | He was stoking the fire unnecessarily until the flames raced up the chimney . |
| 5 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 6 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 7 | In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC . |
| 8 | Hour by hour the birds move up the wedge |
| 9 | Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO . |
| 10 | That story , you see , was invented originally by the Russians to cover up the fact that Zbigniew was badly tortured by the guards before they shot him . |
| 11 | ‘ The break-up or impairment of the old ideas of discipline or order , and the life of great cities create occasions for some varieties of crime ’ , is how The Times summed up the feeling in 1899 . |
| 12 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 13 | The eunuchs piled into the entrance hall , the musicians started up the music and Vimla led the dancing by stamping her foot and ringing her little anklet bells . |
| 14 | It is scarcely feasible for the communes to set up the apparatus to assess local household incomes ; this is a matter that is best left to the republics and provinces . |
| 15 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 16 | You can feel the G-force by just watching the cars roar up the famous Prescott Hill . |
| 17 | It plans to fell some of the older trees alongside the lakes to open up the views down the valley . |
| 18 | The beaters stir up the water with enough force to loosen the berries which float to the surface forming brilliant , crimson lakes . |
| 19 | 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase . |
| 20 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 21 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The failure of ecological aspects of small mammal faunas to predict predator species leads to the consideration of modifications to the bones making up the faunal assemblage . |
| 24 | ‘ Still , ’ said Sam , ‘ they let the dossers pick up the ones they throw out . ’ |
| 25 | The headlights pick up the shiny worn sleepers . |
| 26 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 27 | Cos they ai n't got the companies to build up the |
| 28 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 29 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 30 | Efforts are initially made to persuade the parents to bring up the child at home , but where this does not prove successful or is not considered a wise step , some form of full-time residential care is required . |