Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 2 | But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches . |
| 3 | She , too , holds up the spoon and tries to tempt me . |
| 4 | It speeds up the game and takes controversy away ’ . |
| 5 | He scoops up the ball and sees John 's dad a hundred feet away . |
| 6 | So now , of course , Gil immediately goes out , climbs up the lamp and just pulls the thing and it . |
| 7 | He fills up the streams and the paths , like veins |
| 8 | He fills up the evening and the morning , they darken |
| 9 | As usual , rainwater fills up the aquifer and water flows out from it where it meets the surface . |
| 10 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
| 11 | When they arrive at the restaurant cash points they run their card through the machine which automatically flashes up the price and deducts the cost of their meal . |
| 12 | well suited or well fitted with the , with the stuff that , you know , you 've , you 've got erm I mean that 's probably the best way to do it and I also find actually trying to write things sh myself shows up the holes in arguments , shows up the bits that you need yet to fill in sort of thing |
| 13 | At Newby Cote , a detached farming community on the old road , a track leads up the hillside and when it ends , its direction can be maintained by continuing upwards alongside the stream bed of Grey Wife Sike , which is normally dry . |
| 14 | Anguish : Mrs Ellen Owens clears up the muck and water from her Conwy Morfa flat Picture : COLIN PAXTON |
| 15 | Meanwhile the main path route goes up the valley until sea reappears ( where these two routes merge ) . |
| 16 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 17 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 18 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 20 | In effect , the cell body integrates up the plus and minus stimuli it is receiving , and this determines its own output . |
| 21 | A guy with a gun sits up the tree and waits . |
| 22 | Joyce worries about the fact that Luke does n't eat , yet , every time she is away , he gorges himself — stores up the food so he can starve again when she returns , and really makes her feel bad about leaving him . |
| 23 | But the new admission that Britain is considering ( forgetting ) about further reprocessing plant opens up the possibility that the temporary store may become a long-term dumping ground for the industry 's most dangerous waste . |
| 24 | This chapter has suggested that in the majority of large public companies the separation of ownership and control is a reality , and that this opens up the possibility that in some of them , subject to the variable constraining influence of market forces , managements will pursue deviant goals and/or shirk . |
| 25 | Among other things , this opens up the multiculturalists and antiracists to the very charge of propaganda and indoctrination which they level at the textbooks , authors and teachers they are attempting to challenge . |
| 26 | If you are concerned about losing user access to LIFESPAN while you take such a BACKUP , you may like to consider having a batch job which , for instance , runs at 2 a.m. every day , shuts down the process , backs up the Process and Working Directories to a save_set on a disk somewhere , and restarts the process . |
| 27 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 28 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 29 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 30 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |