Example sentences of "up [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes from 0–62 in 8.4 seconds , all the way up through the rev band to a top speed of 129 mph , although no en route to Tooting . |
| 2 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 3 | And so usually at the end of the day you you reversed your procedure and went back to the stalls and took the lines down and cleared up for the butchers and what have you , and then you usually got some meat , or perhaps some vegetables , and various things . |
| 4 | Time to find whether opting out adds up As the 2% incentive to contract out of SERPS nears an end , LIZ WALKINGTON takes stock |
| 5 | Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller . |
| 6 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 7 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 8 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 9 | He had to see what was up with the sheep . |
| 10 | He caught up with the pair when they stopped to change getaway cars . |
| 11 | And , on meeting up with the Apache after 30 years I like it now . |
| 12 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 13 | But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama . |
| 14 | You hook up with the people on the same trip and work it from there . ’ |
| 15 | My family have lived in Anglesey for 500 years , mostly as parsons , and I am deeply tied up with the people and landscape . |
| 16 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 17 | Given our present level of ignorance there is a good case for muddling along as best we can until the theory catches up with the data . |
| 18 | In other words the access paths for joining or separating relations are not set up with the data . |
| 19 | This is why Peter gets so steamed up with the sales people from the software houses . |
| 20 | I AM fed up with the media blasting Kenya 's tourist industry . |
| 21 | When Lord Hanson made his cash bid for Ranks Hovis McDougall a month ago the shares shot up above the 220p offer . |
| 22 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 23 | They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch . |
| 24 | A tall order with many quality filter systems starting at prices up in the £200/300 price bracket but fortuitously a high performance filter had just come onto the market at an affordable price . |
| 25 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 26 | The costs of outbreeding may include the risks of infections from pathogens carried by the partner and the breaking up in the offspring of co-adapted complexes of genes found in the parents . |
| 27 | Barnsley 's John Mayock , who had been fancied possibly to go one better in Toronto than his silver in last year 's European Indoor Championships , ran out of steam as the pace hotted up in the 3,000m final , and could only finish sixth , in 7:54.41 , some four seconds behind Italian winner , Gennaro Di Napoli . |
| 28 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 29 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 30 | A high concentration builds up in the fish which are a staple part of the Cree and Inuit 's diet . |