Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb base] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then slowly his face clears as the pendulums pick up speed . |
| 2 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 3 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
| 4 | All the majors and two of the mini-majors set up production subsidiaries in London . |
| 5 | The Republicans put up candidates in about half the constituencies and their overall share of the vote stayed low at 2.3 per cent . |
| 6 | The males set up territories which they will defend vigorously against others of their own kind , and fights to the death have occasionally been witnessed . |
| 7 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 8 | The triceps make up 60% of the upper arm while the biceps make up only 40% and yet it is still the case that most people tend to have overdeveloped biceps . |
| 9 | In summer , when the white trash Protestants from the rookeries of the Dock Road marched in honour of King Billy , the police put up barricades to stop the Catholic men from charging the procession . |
| 10 | The way the police beat up Malcolm McLaren … |
| 11 | Luib studied it as the others set up camp . |
| 12 | ‘ When the brewers put up beer prices last July we decided to peg our prices . |
| 13 | At first the belts slip round the flat pulleys — they 're meant to — but as soon as I squirt the gum they grab and the shafts pick up speed real fast , and the spokes on the pulleys blur and disappear . |
| 14 | The reality is that the present intelligent and moderate leaderships of the unions pay up money out of a mixture of sentiment , good will and habit . |