Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers interested in doing experiments involving ultrasonics can buy the basic matching transmitters and receivers quite cheaply but they will need to look up or develop the circuits needed to make them work . |
| 2 | Lastly , the Government was obviously concerned about the way the press and radio could , by their manner of reporting , either build up or damage the reputations of political figures . |
| 3 | Then Frank arrived one weekend with a team of his workmates to wire the place up and install the plugs and light fittings . |
| 4 | She got up and checked the wardrobes , and her bemusement became sheer bewilderment . |
| 5 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 6 | He looked up and saw the glasses . |
| 7 | There was a shrieking in her ears , so vibratingly shrill that for an instant she thought it was the whole Glass Castle shivering to pieces — then she looked up and saw the Women sweeping down on them , screaming their war cry . |
| 8 | He picked it up and set the flowers down on the locker . |
| 9 | From the start , go down the ladder , grab the crate and kill the green blob , jump down the hole into the water , swim over to the ladder and get out , avoiding the workman in the process , continue right , kill the blob and move into the ladder , climb up and collect the records ( avoiding the broken ones ) , dive down the hole , swim right to the open/close door then go up the ladder , pick up the crate and jump out the open gap onto the railway line and lob the crate at the workman , move left over the trains ( killing the blobs with spare crates if you wish ) until you reach the end . |
| 10 | Well you can drop the calculator if you want it would be better if you pick 'em up and stick the numbers in . |
| 11 | The peasants tore up and burned the copies they received ; and often it was simply ignored and the singing of hymns in Latin continued . |
| 12 | McCrea had been told to stay on , pack , tidy up and return the keys to the landlord when he left next morning . |
| 13 | On the same axes , draw up and label the equations y = 3x — 2 and y = ⅓x + 2 . |
| 14 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 15 | Mundell , 22 , and Lieutenant Andrew Hadley , 24 , then stormed into Lt Richard Brearey 's room and asked him to get up and watch the results . |
| 16 | On a Saturday night in July they were woken by two burglars who hit Mr Ross repeatedly on the head and body , tied them both up and demanded the keys of the safe . |
| 17 | By simply picking up and moving the categories ' names with the mouse I can reverse their positions and totally rebuild the worksheet … |
| 18 | So I thought I 'd spend tomorrow at home clearing up and reading the newspapers and engaging in some spiritually uplifting reading . |
| 19 | He dragged Rex up and spat the words into his face . |
| 20 | Did you set up and supervise the builders ? |
| 21 | After she leaves he cleans up and does the dishes . |
| 22 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 23 | One woman had the temerity to ask whether a person would be available to dig up and carry the ferns she hoped to take away during a bush walk . |
| 24 | Barry Overton was appointed to set up and head the plastics environmental affairs group with Gordon Head and Sue Ward in charge of polymers [ Melinar PET and Propathene PP ] and Bob Dye in control of PET and PP film . |
| 25 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
| 26 | Right now Stephen hang your cups up and put the knives and forks away while I sort this out . |
| 27 | Excess LDL , rejected by the now full-up cells are deposited in the walls of the arteries , where they can build up and make the arteries narrower . |
| 28 | They were very surprised , because usually they advertised for them , but they went up and asked the tailors if they wanted anyone , and then a dear old man , a er named Mr said he like a trouser finisher . |
| 29 | He picked it up and studied the contours of the face , a slight smile on his lips . |
| 30 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |