Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 6 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon this afternoon visited Up Hatherley , Cheltenham , and was received on arrival at Staverton Airport by Her Majesty 's Lord-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire ( Colonel Martin Gibbs ) . |
| 2 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 3 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 4 | This issue comes up time and again for example there is an equally divided community in Britain , a divided position on matters like abortion . |
| 5 | Microphones of this type pick up sound which is mainly from sources within the picture area , and the nuisance of unwanted noises-off is much reduced . |
| 6 | The investment financed by this borrowing stoked up demand for commodities , permitting sales to be maintained at higher and higher prices . |
| 7 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 8 | Talking at all above the screech of the wind was difficult and he had to make his explanation short : ‘ Mariana , the men running this coup set up roadblocks this morning to pick up any of the Government trying to get into Belpan City . |
| 9 | This shoot em' up game has very good graphics and supports sound blaster . |
| 10 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 11 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
| 12 | Interestingly , this activity set up references to two different reading contexts : reading television , the context in which the characters originally appeared ; and reading pictures , the format in which the characters were presented . |
| 13 | Congress ( I ) continued at this stage to prop up Chandra Shekhar 's fragile minority Janata Dal ( S ) government but extracted a number of major concessions for its support . |