Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening . |
| 2 | Count up the ticks to discover which were most common . |
| 3 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 4 | Walk up the field crossing the rhyne ( ditch ) . |
| 5 | The home side 's run of four straight wins in which they scored 10 goals counted for nothing as Brian Flynn 's men put up the shutters to keep a clean sheet for the fourth time this season . |
| 6 | You can become resigned to the monotony of captivity and give up the struggle to maintain your own interests and identity . |
| 7 | The fact is that I did n't — do n't want you to make such a sacrifice and give up the zoo work you like so much . ’ |
| 8 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 9 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 10 | You want to create a good impression every time you pick up the phone to answer it . |
| 11 | Potential buyers , who have a pre-sale preview of all stock on offer , then watch the screen on sale day and pick up the phone to make a bid . |
| 12 | Two microphones , one in each ear of a dummy or human head , pick up the sound reaching the ears . |
| 13 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 14 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 15 | The topology of the three helices in the NMR structure , and the assignment of the residues that make up the helices agree well with the crystal structure . |
| 16 | This advantage stems from the fact that the companies and organisations that make up the market tend to be clustered together , for instance on a geographical basis , or by product type . |
| 17 | The mass of estuaries and inlets that make up the coastline mean an oil spill would cover a lot bigger area . |
| 18 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 19 | It is as though Crabbe 's personal inspiration , which surrounds Grimes with a visionary nimbus , becomes one part of the opera , and the whole series of poems which make up The Borough become the rest of the opera . |
| 20 | To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution . |
| 21 | But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’ |
| 22 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
| 23 | As is well brought out in a recent paper , the views of Carnap 's which Quine opposed involved the claim that conventionally adopted analytic linguistic frameworks provided criteria of reality , which set up the standards according to which any question that might arise was settlable ( Ricketts 1982 ) . |
| 24 | IDE drives are intelligent , that is provided that you set up the CMOS to show the new drives capacity you do n't have to worry about drive type . |
| 25 | If you summon up the courage to investigate , you might find not alien creatures but a friendly hedgehog or two , emerging from hibernation and foraging for food among the shrubs in your borders . |
| 26 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 27 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 28 | lot 's of people dig up the pavement do n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ We either dig up the countryside to meet growing aggregates consumption on roads , buildings and other major civil engineering projects , or take a decisive step towards a more sustainable society ’ . |
| 30 | And then you , fill up the holes do you ? |