Example sentences of "[vb -s] up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket application programming interface and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 2 | Enhancements include Telnet support for VT220 , a Microsoft Windows Socket API and non-X application support using Xstart , which starts up the application on the host system . |
| 3 | So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on . |
| 4 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
| 5 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 6 | Where I call the cut , and he 's going the cut what cut that 's the canal I says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no that 's the alley |
| 7 | Sometimes a mass of viscous lava gets intruded near the surface , but does n't actually manage to break through ; instead it forces up the surface of the ground on top , forming a considerable hill where there was no hill before . |
| 8 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 9 | Super disk copier speeds up the operation of duplicating a master disk many times . |
| 10 | This reduces the number of errors from mistyping , speeds up the operation of the user interface and provides a session memory . |
| 11 | This reduces the number of errors from mistyping , speeds up the operation of the user interface and provides a session memory . |
| 12 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 13 | To the extent that policies are widely publicized and are regarded as credible by agents , the grafting on of the rational expectations hypothesis simply speeds up the process of adjustment to a lower rate of inflation . |
| 14 | The integration of the key system with the hotel management programme , speeds up the traffic at the reception desk since the keycard is authorised automatically when the guest checks in . |
| 15 | Alcohol is also supposed to have a ‘ warming up ’ effect , when in fact alcohol actually speeds up the loss of body heat , and can aggravate the problems of hypothermia . |
| 16 | A bagged concrete mix is now available which speeds up the erection of fence posts very considerably . |
| 17 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 18 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 19 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 20 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 21 | Roger North , the young Surrey allrounder , is the hero , with strong love interest , and a climax to tempt film-makers as he climbs up the gasholder at The Oval with the villain . |
| 22 | Well , the answer is pretty simple , you save the file , and you re-retrieve it , and when you re-retrieve the file , erm , it erases the memory to start with , and then erm , fills up the memory from scratch and if there 's nothing there any more , then it wo n't use any memory for it . |
| 23 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 24 | For a few miles initially their anticipation of a beautiful journey is confirmed by lovely surroundings of pastures and woodland as the train passes up the valley of the Ribble with the river in close attendance and friendly green hills rising on both sides of the track . |
| 25 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 26 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |
| 27 | This , unfortunately , shows up the flaw in an otherwise excellent gearbox . |
| 28 | The small study of children developing reading reported by Kyle ( 1981b ) confirms the general view , but shows up the gap between vocabulary development , where progress is made throughout schooling , and sentence comprehension , where deaf children frequently reach a plateau at about the 8-year-old level . |
| 29 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 30 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |