Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Such blindness distorts truth ; such political irresponsibility stores up trouble for the future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden ; Gustave forbids its slaughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |