Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet to impose a purely ‘ universal ’ reading on a novel such as Pedro Páramo is to impoverish it , for it also — and more immediately — conjures up associations with the ancient Mexican myth of Quetzalcoatl 's journey to Mictlan , the kingdom of the dead , and the world into which we are introduced is one where the indigenous cultural tradition constitutes a living presence . |
| 2 | It conjures up images of the old Nimble bread adverts with the girl in the balloon , or the bit in The Snowman where the kid flies over the coast . |
| 3 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
| 4 | The sound of laughter apparently conjures up starlings for the people . |
| 5 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 6 | This method of cultivation protects the growing plants from late frosts and builds up heat in the soil so that the potatoes are ready to be lifted 2–3 weeks earlier than if they had been grown conventionally . |
| 7 | Such blindness distorts truth ; such political irresponsibility stores up trouble for the future . |
| 8 | Whenever Marx or Freud or any other thinker is used in such a way as an authority of revealed truth , then the community of sociologists opens up discussion on the basic aspects of the theory . |
| 9 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 10 | In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden ; Gustave forbids its slaughter . |
| 11 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 12 | Bird ( 1968 ) divides up coasts on the basis of tidal range into microtidal ( less than 2 m : 6 ft ) , mesotidal ( 2–4 m ) and macrotidal ( more than 4 m : 12 ft ) . |
| 13 | NWD snaps up 15% of the market , Hewlett-Packard and DEC have 17% apiece , IBM lags behind at 14% , while Network Computing Devices Inc leads the field with 25% . |
| 14 | The feed pipe is fixed at the throat and as water flows from the tap the suction draws up chemical from the drum to mix with the water . |
| 15 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 16 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 17 | The Bus company delivers and picks up children at the School every day . |
| 18 | She is a serial killer who picks up men in the Métro . |
| 19 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 20 | It 's probably one that picks up conversations in the room as well as just on the phone but I can show it to the boys at — ’ |
| 21 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 22 | It uses experiments to measure its subjects ' behavioural components , and sets up psychologists as the neutral agents of these experiments . |
| 23 | Open account : Under this payment method the exporter gives up control of the goods to the importer and receives debt settlement at a later date under the contract 's terms . |
| 24 | The title of Rubin Rabinovitz 's study , The Reaction Against Experiment in the English Novel , 1950–1960 ( 1967 ) , sums up part of the mood of the decade . |
| 25 | It flows up channels through the rocks under decreasing pressure until suddenly it flashes into steam and water spouts high into the air as a geyser . |
| 26 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 27 | Typical is the Pine Gap installation near Alice Springs in Australia , a huge project that sucks up communications in the Far East and Pacific . |
| 28 | Operating like a huge vacuum cleaner , it sucks up gravel into the dredge where it is sieved to retrieve the fine , black , gold-bearing sand . |
| 29 | Other employees said they had favourite sections of the roadshow , and everyone was enthusiastic about the Crystal Maze game that makes up part of the roadshow . |
| 30 | The weft , which makes up 60% of the material , consists of pure cotton thread , while the warp , the other 40% , is nylon thread . |