Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | USL 's DCE for Unix SVR4 will be an extension of Siemens ' reference work that the pair will collaborate on to tighten up the integration . |
| 2 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 3 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 4 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 5 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 6 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 8 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 9 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 10 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |
| 11 | So with that call it coincidence , call it what you like but one of these low-loaders come in to pick up a caravan or something like . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 13 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 14 | Mr Popple unravelled some toilet-paper and threw it down to cover up the spider as it was thrown against the ceramic sides of the bowl . |
| 15 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 16 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 17 | Steve suggested drily , bending down to mop up the water at her feet . |
| 18 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 19 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 20 | Even such apparently social differences as women 's larger attendance at church and enthusiasm for coffee mornings , and men 's greater participation in Rotarian meetings , are roped in to back up the argument ( Hutt 1972 ) . |
| 21 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 22 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 23 | Human Touch ( Columbia ) is the worst : an hour of express-way roar with only the odd shift down to break up the nose-to-bumper raunch . |
| 24 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 25 | Be prepared for off the subject remarks — put in to perk up the interview , or comments like ‘ so you all prance about in leotards , then ? ’ |
| 26 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 27 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 28 | Then we would fling ourselves upon each other at all hours of the day and night make love upon the unmade bed , for often we refused to let the maid in to make up the room : |
| 29 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 30 | Where the road bears left continue straight on to pick up the coast path above Caerbwdy Bay — look out for the purple sandstone around the bay . |