Example sentences of "[vb past] up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 2 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 3 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 4 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 5 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 6 | Facing this triangular space , created for the benefit of traders , the abbot divided up the land on either side into a series of narrow plots on which traders and others were encouraged to settle permanently , building their houses with timber and other materials provided by him . |
| 7 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 8 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 9 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 10 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 11 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 12 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 13 | See he smashed up the house on Christmas day . |
| 14 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 15 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 16 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , ministers and the NHSME took implementation seriously and kept up the pressure on Health Authorities . |
| 18 | The Nottinghamshire opening partnership of left handers kept up the pressure on a shaky Worcestershire attack . |
| 19 | Waringstown kept up the pressure on leaders Lisburn with a 45-run win over Woodvale at Ballygomartin Road on Saturday . |
| 20 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 22 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 23 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 24 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 25 | From 1927 onwards , as the consequences of Eliot 's baptism into the Anglican church showed up in the imagery of ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , ‘ A Song for Simeon ’ , ‘ Animula ’ , and most conspicuously ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( 1930 ) , Tate , open to the solicitations of Christian belief , took up the running on Eliot 's behalf from the non-believer Wilson . |
| 26 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 27 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 28 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |
| 29 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 30 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |