Example sentences of "up [verb] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | We all turned up to see the mighty Linfield toss Bangor aside and we go and spoil the party . |
| 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 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 6 | He was a tall , heavily built man , and I had to look up to see the bearded face . |
| 7 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | If success follows at the polls , legislative programmes then have to be drawn up to implement the incoming Government 's undertakings . |
| 15 | ‘ Else thee 'll end up scrubbing the bloody step like me . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In spite of lowering clouds and apocalyptic forecasts , plenty of hardy souls turned up to sample the culinary offerings of Brecknock 's answer tot he Roux Brothers , and were rewarded with a pleasant , rain free evening , and a meal that reached even dizzier heights than last year — the proportion of charcoal to edible meat having been somewhat reduced . |
| 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 | Like the physicalist attacks on the privacy of subjective experience , these attacks on intellect are self-defeating , in that they end up denying the very realities they are trying to explain . |
| 22 | One morning they woke up to find the Blessed Margaret in charge whilst their own leaders resembled very recently decapitated chickens . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Belinda 's head flew up to meet the blue onslaught of Tom Russell 's frowning gaze . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Membership applications were received from all over the UK , and the MLA was set up to meet the growing demand for a central organisation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Here the fields are small … and the hedges often tall and deep , leafy with trees of all ages as hedgerow saplings grow up to replace the dying giants … . |
| 29 | Then he remembered he 'd given up smoking the damned thing . |
| 30 | In the first place , a working party set up to simplify the complex technicalities of the original assessment proposals generated a system which was more intelligible and rational . |