Example sentences of "up [noun] [unc] [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 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday . |
| 7 | We shall write up Newton 's equation for the case when the force is provided by an electric field and friction is present |
| 8 | He sums up Revie 's reign by saying ; ‘ He enjoyed ‘ dishing it out ’ but could n't take the pressure when the tide turned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I looked up Dana 's name in the telephone book , and , with wildly beating heart called the number . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Another reason for the lack of interest in PEPS is that its benefits were predictable and it tied up clients ' money for at least a year . |
| 14 | Graeme Fowler and Gatting each scored double centuries in the sweltering heat of the Chepauk Stadium to set up England 's victory in 1985 . |
| 15 | Brazilian Nogueira headed Marinos ahead from a free-kick in the 32nd minute but compatriot Jorginho set up Grampus ' equaliser after 77 minutes for Shigeo Sawairi . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll cost , ’ said Lloyd , weighing up Tel 's wallet with his X-ray vision . |
| 18 | Lizzy picked up Joey 's fear from his voice . |
| 19 | Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He picked up Willie 's label from the top of the bookcase and handed it to him . |
| 23 | Sunday Life has learned that the Northern Ireland Office will stump up taxpayers ' money to the IRA 's political wing for the protection of its premises . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 26 | A large carafe of wine was on their table and Andrée filled up Flavia 's glass from time to time . |
| 27 | Unaccountably , a tide of colour crept up Juliet 's neck into her cheeks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Marginally , perhaps , but I always come by the street and pick up uncle 's paper from the newsagent on my way . ’ |
| 30 | From one angle , it could be merely resting , yet from another , the crushed corpse seems to sum up man 's relationship with flies perfectly . |