Example sentences of "up [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Guy of Castlemilk Housing Energy Action , set up to combat the high level of fuel debt in the area , described the anger and despair with which people had reacted to the decision to add VAT to their fuel bills . |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | Are you staying up to see the New Year in ? ’ |
| 4 | One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths . |
| 5 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 6 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 7 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 8 | But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police . |
| 9 | Some younger patients will need to develop this into a walk/jog sequence to get the heart rate up to the necessary level , and will ultimately take up jogging the whole distance . |
| 10 | Then , in 1975 and 1976 , the CNAA 's committee for Art and Design , which had been set up to monitor the existing provision , instituted a major review and renewal of approval of well over 100 BA honours courses . |
| 11 | The FRPB has been concerned about the water quality of the River Almond ( Class 3/4 ) for some time and in June 1988 a River Almond Model Study Group was set up to monitor the deteriorating river quality . |
| 12 | The two got togged up to publicise the first programme in their new series of Watchdog tomorrow night ( BBC1 , 7.30pm ) which investigates the cost of school uniforms . |
| 13 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 14 | Simtek is his firm … in the driving seat is David Brabham he 's been signed up to drive the new machine … the father figure of formula one 's newest team is Sir Jack Brabham … three times world champion … |
| 15 | If success follows at the polls , legislative programmes then have to be drawn up to implement the incoming Government 's undertakings . |
| 16 | ‘ Else thee 'll end up scrubbing the bloody step like me . ’ |
| 17 | First , it was the gradual transformation of woodlands and grasslands into farmland , and then years later building it up to accommodate the ever-growing influx of people . |
| 18 | Backspace allows correction , carriage return or line feed terminates the process , while a decimal digit character is translated and the decimal number built up using the elementary formula |
| 19 | For example , if an offline system were designed which destroyed all offline copies when bringing a module back online , then there is a possibility that files could be lost if the system crashes immediately following the restore before the online version had been safely backed up using the normal VMS system back-up procedures . |
| 20 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 22 | Belinda 's head flew up to meet the blue onslaught of Tom Russell 's frowning gaze . |
| 23 | So she goes well she reckons it 'll be a good idea if you went up to meet the little lad , he 's only six , he 's called Mark . |
| 24 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
| 25 | Possibly the only person ever to have succeeded in upstaging Margaret Thatcher in a photo-opportunity , Katharine lined up to shake the Prime Minister 's hand wearing a T-shirt declaring ‘ 58 per cent Do n't Want Pershing ’ at a Downing Street reception in 1984 . |
| 26 | Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . |
| 27 | Then he remembered he 'd given up smoking the damned thing . |
| 28 | A new consultative group , to be set up to oversee the new programme , will include representatives from aid donors , countries possessing tropical forest , NGOs and community organisations . |
| 29 | The special EP2 Task Force set up to oversee the huge job combined people from both Sellafield and Risley sites . |
| 30 | Switch to wavy bullets and go left , get over the blocker and jump up to shoot the fat creature . |