Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The successive rounds of the game give us the opportunity to build up trust or mistrust , to reciprocate or placate , forgive or avenge . |
| 2 | While there was disappointment that the Chancellor had not taken the opportunity to roll up tax relief for first time buyers into the first few years of a mortgage , the doubling of the stamp duty threshold has been widely welcomed . |
| 3 | Acute back pain forced the Prince to give up polo for a month in June , 1991 . |
| 4 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 5 | Premadasa on March 23 appealed to the LTTE to " enter the democratic process " , promising that " if the LTTE gives up violence , the government will lose no time in holding fresh elections to the North-Eastern Provincial Council and to the local government institutions in that province " . |
| 6 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 7 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 8 | The buyer held up delivery and the juice went bad as a result . |
| 9 | Instead , the Armada sailed up channel and the watchers at Rame , including Carew , could view the first engagement of battle early that Sunday morning off Plymouth , with the first galleon exploding . |
| 10 | Dressing often becomes a battle at this time , as you try to hurry the process by helping where help is n't wanted and she becomes more and more frustrated when her leg goes in the wrong hole or the jumper ends up back to front . |
| 11 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |
| 12 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 13 | It is one thing , though no doubt foolish , for the president to hold up air traffic while he gets a haircut from a high-priced snipper on the tarmac of Los Angeles airport . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The car picks up speed very quickly in the lower gears thanks to a 16-valve turbo engine and soon we were finding out how to negotiate winding country lanes at 60 . |
| 16 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 17 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 18 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
| 19 | As the boat picks up speed , so you can settle gently into the boat to gain control . |
| 20 | Acer is the latest PC company to jump on the bandwagon signing up handwriting recognition software expert CIC to develop pen based applications to be run on Acer hardware . |
| 21 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 23 | After the Wall Street crash of 1929 , with the slump forcing up tariff barriers around the world , Ramsay Macdonald 's Second Labour Government clung dogmatically to Treasury orthodoxy and the defence of free trade . |
| 24 | But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them . |
| 25 | The Unit is sponsored by the Scottish Home and Health Department , the Scottish Health Education Group and the Economic and Social Research Council and commenced operation when the Director took up post in September 1983 . |
| 26 | She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles , looking oddly like a bee with broken wings . |
| 27 | The mullet pick up speed and head in towards land cleverly putting us between them and the dolphins . |
| 28 | We would n't have got the cash to set up Headline if we had n't started with the intention to be commercial . ’ |
| 29 | Sue : Finally , is there any thing you can tell us about the Business Start Up Scheme and the TEC Challenge ? |
| 30 | Roger : The Business Start Up Scheme is an expansion of an existing programme . |