Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The owner starts up a new business and pays into the business bank account £1,000 . |
| 9 | GLAZING machine supervisor Steve Wilmore starts up the new glazing machine . |
| 10 | On May 22nd ( the day following his terrible vow against Elfed ) he writes up a typical entry : ‘ Went to see As You Like It as performed by Form 4 . |
| 11 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
| 12 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 13 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 14 | A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction but remains chemically unchanged at the end of that reaction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 17 | Now in her case we put her on two fifties but that i uses up an awful lot of skin and it 's a real hassle , so er |
| 18 | What uses up the conventional memory ? |
| 19 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 20 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 21 | The provision of council housing therefore links up the second basis of local — newcomer conflict , which relates to broadly environmental issues . |
| 22 | This analysis shows up a further difference between choices of means and of ends ; the former start from facts publicly testable by objective criteria , the latter from the look and feel of things tested privately and subjectively , by assuming in experience or imagination the relevant viewpoint in the fullest awareness available , and discovering how one does respond . |
| 23 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One leads up an unfrequented glen occupied by wild goats and skirts the northern flank of Beinn Fhada to arrive at a rough bealach or col , where I once shivered for two hours waiting for the mist to lift off Sgurr nan Ceathreamhnan ahead , which it did not . |
| 26 | For instance it clears up a tiresome controversy over the level at which natural selection acts . |
| 27 | Each Victorian town conjures up a distinctive image in one 's mind , an overall impression that blurs the differences that existed within a town between one quarter or district and another . |
| 28 | Gay conjures up a nightmarish world , in which ‘ thief-takers ’ inform on fellow criminals for the £40 reward , marriage for love is regarded as a family disgrace , and man is presented as an animal of prey . |
| 29 | This is a real delight and conjures up a wonderful portrait . |
| 30 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |