Example sentences of "up [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Annie considered that Ann Butler should step in and make up Sarah 's mind for her .
2 But to show Ian the detrimental effects of talking when you should be working , Mrs Britten held up Ian 's painting in front of the class and systematically ridiculed his efforts ; this with Ian standing beside her going redder and redder with every word .
3 Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics .
4 Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example .
5 Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday .
6 We shall write up Newton 's equation for the case when the force is provided by an electric field and friction is present
7 He sums up Revie 's reign by saying ; ‘ He enjoyed ‘ dishing it out ’ but could n't take the pressure when the tide turned .
8 He could only have shored up Labour 's establishment in Scotland and Wales by fragmenting its UK establishment , and betraying the north of England component .
9 I looked up Dana 's name in the telephone book , and , with wildly beating heart called the number .
10 One morning , Claude , the French maître d' , ran out of oranges and had to top up Dustin 's glass with some of the tinned variety .
11 Peter set up Nottinghamshire 's library in the winter of 1978–79 with the assistance of then chairman Dick Milnes : ‘ I spent the winter filling in gaps in the collection and disposing of the duplicates .
12 Graeme Fowler and Gatting each scored double centuries in the sweltering heat of the Chepauk Stadium to set up England 's victory in 1985 .
13 At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service .
14 ‘ It 'll cost , ’ said Lloyd , weighing up Tel 's wallet with his X-ray vision .
15 Lizzy picked up Joey 's fear from his voice .
16 Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions .
17 Before a scramble up Cust 's Gully on Great End , I consulted Wainwright 's Southern Fells and Scrambles in the Lake District by P.B. Evans .
18 People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route .
19 He picked up Willie 's label from the top of the bookcase and handed it to him .
20 Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back .
21 ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) .
22 A large carafe of wine was on their table and Andrée filled up Flavia 's glass from time to time .
23 Unaccountably , a tide of colour crept up Juliet 's neck into her cheeks .
24 Then came a review which made a bonfire of all the others and lit up Burton 's name in flames in the English theatre of the day .
25 ‘ Marginally , perhaps , but I always come by the street and pick up uncle 's paper from the newsagent on my way . ’
26 From one angle , it could be merely resting , yet from another , the crushed corpse seems to sum up man 's relationship with flies perfectly .
27 Someone picked up Gallagher 's jacket from the ground and handed it to him .
28 Evelyn desperately wanted to clean up Lizzy 's room for her but Kate had forbidden her to touch it .
29 In general Golding built up Piggy 's character by only stressing his bad points , so that Piggy could get full sympathy from the reader .
30 Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion .
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