Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
2 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
3 | Managing director , George Sneddon heads up the regional management team of 24 UK staff who are supported by 123 Omani , Indian and Sri Lankan staff and a labour force of 1500 men . |
4 | Regional pig business manager left , heads up the regional team which includes pig sales manager ( East ) , right ; pig sales manager ( West ) ; pig technical manager and 12 regional sales specialists . |
5 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
6 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
7 | GLAZING machine supervisor Steve Wilmore starts up the new glazing machine . |
8 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
9 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
10 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
11 | What uses up the conventional memory ? |
12 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
13 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
14 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
15 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
16 | Such cropmarks occur because soil moisture deficiency in gravel subsoils shows up the earlier features . |
17 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
18 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
19 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
20 | Nothing about what conjures up the distinctive perfume of a bookshop , however . |
21 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
22 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
23 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
24 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
25 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
26 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
27 | Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation . |
28 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
29 | Chef turns up the racing heat |
30 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |