Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phosphates used in detergents and cleaning products are useful because they condition the water to reduce scum , help to keep the water alkaline for proper cleaning and break up the dirt on fabrics to prevent it settling back . |
| 2 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 3 | Cook the din-dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time . |
| 4 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 5 | Pick up the web on this card , as with the wire loop . |
| 6 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 7 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 8 | Go right and fall down , go left and push the crate right onto the button , go left to a wall , duck down and crawl under it , go left and fall down , go right , fall down and collect the main tape deck , go right , then up on the platforms , right , down , and collect the battery , push the crate left and go up on the lift , go left to a button , then jump two platforms to your right , and then onto the platform to your left , push the crate down onto the button and fall down , go up on the lift , then right to the next lift , go up the passage on the lift and ledge , and then go left along the top . |
| 9 | You fire up the engine on the starter button and the mechanic waves you out into the pit lane and you realize that the overall purpose of a racing car 's design is that you should feel a pure sense of yourself in propulsion . |
| 10 | The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks . |
| 11 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 12 | Others divide up the bookfund on a departmental basis and leave the librarian only a minimal allocation to balance up departmental orders . |
| 13 | As we approach the van door , the photocell triggers and the orange bulbs light up the cross on the roof . |