Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An advance guard of hundreds of men , with bulldozers , mechanical shovels , tractors and lorries has for months been scarring the lowlands , daubing the green acres with splashes of grey clay and red earth in a mariner unseen since Beaker Folk raised their burial mounds or Saxons threw up ramparts on surrounding hills . |
| 2 | In all over 60 parties and groups put up candidates . |
| 3 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |
| 4 | Press with the thumbs and fingers to scoop up flesh , squeeze gently but firmly , and slowly release . |
| 5 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 6 | In every way possible preachers and troubadours stirred up enthusiasm . |
| 7 | The document is full of information about Dixons ' market share — reckoned to be around 16 per cent — and efforts to smarten up Dixons and Currys outlets . |
| 8 | The royal household cost £56,000 in 1550/51 , compared with only £25,000 in 1538 /39 ; pensions and annuities ate up £20,000 ; and permanent garrisons , the navy , and the ordnance absorbed £80,000 . |
| 9 | In Gabon , the prosimian Euoticus elegantulus , by contrast , has gums from trees and lianes making up 75% of food intake . |
| 10 | One of the region 's biggest hospitals is urging staff and patients to step up security in the face of rising crime . |
| 11 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 12 | The West Coast had love-ins ; now London in considerably less welcoming climes tried the same , complete with an obligatory visit by Andy Warhol , Pink Floyd , and celebrants shinning up organ pipes as the night wore on and boredom or chemically induced demons had to be exorcized . |
| 13 | • Life and Pensions profits up 22% to £104.0 million |
| 14 | The first of these involved grassroots campaigning , the setting up of local groups , farmers and landowners putting up notices stating ‘ No Uranium Prospecting ’ . |
| 15 | The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development . |
| 16 | The all-embracing AD/Cycle combines a set of standards and interfaces to speed up application development . |
| 17 | Anticipating intervention by Moldavian armed units , the authorities in the towns of Tiraspol , Bendery , Dubossary and Rybnitsa declared a state of emergency , and residents set up blockades and organized militia detachments . |
| 18 | WITH so many western companies , consultants , bankers , venture capitalists and others setting up offices there , Budapest 's telephone directory can not keep up . |
| 19 | Like every creation of the music business , Kylie relied on hype and headlines to stoke up interest in her and her music . |
| 20 | But Mr Arnold Keilberth , of the German Union in Prague , said there were individual efforts to forge new relations : ‘ There have been voluntary agreements between Sudetens and Czechs to clean up cemeteries in Bohemia . |
| 21 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |