Example sentences of "up [noun sg] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has she come here for goodness sake Ar Art barked mentally choosing mushed up mushroom omelette and a roll of butter . |
| 2 | Sophia thought this looked rather odd and had offered to lend her a string of cultured pearls , but the beads seemed to go with the piled up hair style and the long pointed-toed shoes that Penelope was wearing . |
| 3 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 4 | there were dishes of chopped up spring onion and all like that and you put your own mixture int middle and then rolled it up . |
| 5 | His government would ( i ) support the NLA in drafting a fresh constitution and in organizing " honest and fair " elections ; ( ii ) reform the bureaucratic administrative system by , among other measures , fighting corruption and decentralizing power ; ( iii ) modernize the armed forces and develop the national defence industry ; ( iv ) support good relations with ASEAN and neighbouring countries ; ( v ) speed up the relief of economic hardships suffered by the people and farmers and improve economic efficiency ; and ( vi ) step up crime suppression and prevention . |
| 6 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 7 | In the rectory kitchen Lavinia and Mrs Blackham and Mrs Goff buttered buns and cut up sponge cake and ginger cake and fruitcake , and arranged oatmeal fingers on plates . |
| 8 | Well straw I picked up strawberry jam and that was sixty two |
| 9 | Why do n't you pick up Angel Delight and got a free jelly with it back there ? |
| 10 | In his last chapter in the book he claims he did a a beam me up scottie business and |
| 11 | Before the four-cylinder half of this plan came to fruition , Rudd , now engineering director , hired a new recruit from Jaguar — ‘ a bright young man called Mike Kimberley ’ — to head up vehicle engineering and lead the team that put the existing twin-cam engine in the Europa . |
| 12 | Sales will be direct and via existing third-party distributors , though ICL plans to sign up specialist Unix and office software VARs in all regions . |
| 13 | A good flight safety section of an airline will publish within the company the results of its own defect and incident reports , keep up safety consciousness and continue safety propaganda campaigns through a regular in-house publication . |
| 14 | It is two years since the 44-year-old former convict set up Convoy Aid and now he devotes his life to the Romanian orphans . |
| 15 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 16 | The aggregate of called up share capital and all reserves , excluding minority interests . |
| 17 | Then back again up Soap Walk and Least Street towards the top of the town and the fine new Town Hall . |
| 18 | Mountain streams are usually the longest , originating from springs on high ground and picking up ground water and tributaries as they descend . |
| 19 | The Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) is designating 1993 as Year of Youth Sailing in order to attract more young people to take up dinghy sailing and windsurfing . |
| 20 | In addition , H pylori eradication speeds up ulcer healing and is associated with healing of previously refractory ulcers . |
| 21 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 22 | While other ventures such as property lending faltered , American consumers piled up credit-card debt and tolerated interest rates three to four times the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | If ever I get the chance I would love to take up sky diving and roam through the Amazon jungle ( especially while it 's still around ) to collect undiscovered plants for medical research . |
| 24 | Was there any way he could have traced her call or picked up background noise and was now rushing downtown in a wild attempt to snatch the film from her ? |
| 25 | Greenpeace have recommended that funding agencies should act to set up heating control and energy-efficient light bulb factories in the Ukraine , in an effort to cut electricity consumption and thereby further reduce dependency on nuclear power . |
| 26 | True up a piece of hardwood ( one surface/two sides ) the same width as the regular plane and put both in the vice , truing up plane case and hardwood with a straight edge . |
| 27 | The B team are so determined they gave up holiday time and daily allowances to assemble for two days of intensive preparation this week in Cardiff . |
| 28 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 29 | A tubercular kidney was diagnosed and Laidler was advised to give up office work and to spend his winters abroad . |
| 30 | large-scale fiscal measures to speed up slum clearance and housing schemes , to improve local amenities , to boost family incomes by generous family allowances , to improve the job market in the inner city , and to implement the proposed extension of nursery provision . |