Example sentences of "[vb pp] up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 2 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 3 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 4 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 5 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 6 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 7 | She 's picked up the cryptosporidium organism , which has been found in the reservoir and causes stomach pains , sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 8 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 9 | STOCKBROKERS have picked up the airline habit : flying merrily on heedless of a leakage of cash . |
| 10 | *John wound up the toy car because it went . |
| 11 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 12 | *John wound up the toy car because it would go . |
| 13 | Water is sucked up the suction tube ( 1 ) into the pump ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | According to Rothschilds the introduction of non-certification has speeded up the redemption process by eliminating the need to return share certificates . |
| 15 | Having sewn up the Cobol development business in the IBM mainframe world , Micro Focus Plc is setting out to pull the same trick in the Unix world and is offering what it describes as a complex Unix application development environment optimised for client-server applications . |
| 16 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 17 | Connections of seven of the 11-strong field have persuaded themselves that their chances merit the late production of a £10,000 entry fee , beliefs that have pumped up the penalty value to over £133,000 . |
| 18 | Then , later on , when you have both built up the small-animal side , she could have a share of the profits . ’ |
| 19 | The first was William Purser who over twenty-five years had built up the Delta mission , originated work for the blind , organised teacher-training and supervised the small theological school of the diocese . |
| 20 | Microsoft says it has moved up the publication date of its Win32s application programming interface , a subset of the Win32 application programming interface in NT , to this quarter . |
| 21 | As the UK ( and other more prosperous countries ) have moved up the league table of relative prosperity , it is not surprising that assistance under Objective 2 has been fiercely debated . |
| 22 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 23 | A heavy backlog of cases has snarled up the court process for dealing with non-payers . |
| 24 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 25 | I am always thankful for their enthusiasm and commitment as we have drawn up the development brief for the Architect , Ray Davis , whom we have now appointed . |
| 26 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 27 | Nigel Mansell showed today that he 's still out to win despite having already wrapped up the World Championship . |
| 28 | Nils had already opened up the engine compartment , which was directly below the deckhouse , and he and Iain were sitting on the floor with their legs dangling over the big diesel , going through a list of requirements he had produced . |
| 29 | Footpath work has opened up the Rosslyn Castle to Hewan right of way |
| 30 | The move to diesel has opened up the Gateway car lists , which were once primarily Ford-dominated but which now include European manufacturers such as Peugeot , Citroen and Renault as well as Ford and Vauxhall . |