Example sentences of "[v-ing] up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | West need three points to be sure of promotion , Newcastle keeping up the challenge on Saturday by winning 54–21 at home to Plymouth . |
| 2 | It was largely due to her that Fred had been able to secure the leasehold of the cafe and build up trade by extending the seating arrangement and brightening up the fare on offer . |
| 3 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 4 | ‘ The UK felt it very important to be a member of LOFT while the ( Sizewell ) inquiry was going on , so they could demonstrate their seriousness in picking up the questions on safety ’ . |
| 5 | Soaking up the sun on a sparkling coral beach , it 's hard to imagine how our lush Reef Resort was built in Cairns , North Queensland without a single tree being felled or lifted . |
| 6 | Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour . |
| 7 | Sheldukher considered turning up the voltage on the Cell again . |
| 8 | Turning up the heat on Sun Microsystems Inc and IBM , Hewlett-Packard Co is starting worldwide deliveries of another Snake RISC workstation in June , adding a colour model of the PA-RISC HP 9000/705 to its pit . |
| 9 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 10 | Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV . |
| 11 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |
| 12 | This is not helped by the suspicion that a preoccupation with Europe is distracting the Government from cleaning up the mess on its own doorstep . |
| 13 | Much of the government 's initiative was simply job substitution — the collection of rubbish or cleaning up the environment on the cheap using ACE workers instead of full-time employed council staff . |
| 14 | The review team has concluded that the main objective must be to reduce the scope for dissatisfaction by stepping up the pressure on those solicitors who are not yet ‘ up-front ’ about charges . |
| 15 | Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate . |
| 16 | However , independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ( The Structure of Alcoholic Taxes : A Hangover from the past , 1990 ) and by the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between Alcoholic Drinks : An Analysis , 1991 ) indicates that it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits , and levelling up the duty on wines and beers , so that all alcoholic drinks are taxed at the same rate of duty per degree of alcohol content . |
| 17 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 18 | I use this basic method of building up the design on a bed of leaves , as it gives a good three-dimensional effect , but there are several other ways to achieve an equally pleasing design . |
| 19 | The Simpsons started life as animated shorts breaking up the sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show . |
| 20 | Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Fly Past Spitfires and Hurricanes flying up the Mall on September 15th . |
| 21 | ’ Werewolf nodded towards the restaurant 's kitchens from where Gino had appeared zipping up the flies on a new pair of jeans . |
| 22 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 23 | Hepzibah bent over him , cutting up the ham on his plate . |
| 24 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 25 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 26 | Despite being scheduled for late September , it 's still delayed as the label rushes to press enough copies to send it soaring up the charts on the heels of MUDHONEY 's pre-posthumous release . |
| 27 | ‘ You are a boring shit , ’ he mimicked , counting up the words on his fingers . |
| 28 | Taking up the wager on behalf of ADT Healthquest , Coe 's idea to encourage people to develop more active and healthy lifestyles seemed , he said , an obvious extension . |
| 29 | The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate … |
| 30 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |