Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Accidents and vandalism make up 25pc of claims for loss of use of the vehicle . ’
2 We then elected to stay on and opened up those two houses ( Bombay Burma ) for thirty officers who had been turned out of hospital from the fighting lower down , and Pop opened up St Michael 's school for about eighty soldiers until they were fit enough to go back to duty .
3 And Muse came up trumps , regaining the lead in the final strides to snatch a dramatic head victory over the 2–5 favourite in the Racecall Hurdle .
4 Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ
5 After investigation and treatment follow up data were collected to ensure that no recurrence of anaemia occurred and that the symptoms had resolved .
6 When the room number and balance pick up check digits are entered they are verified electronically and if incorrect the terminal will reject the entire entry as invalid thus eliminating a common error in posting to guest 's folio .
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