Example sentences of "up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 2 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 3 | He tots up the maths in his head — five units for last year 's domestic season and the World Cup , a unit each for 1992 's five domestic tests , two more for the venture to South Africa and four for the major tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 4 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 5 | The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated . |
| 6 | b ) You can true up the work in the chuck and ensure that it runs true . |
| 7 | Summer died under the weight of falling leaves , and autumn filled up the ruts in the road with rainwater , like blood filling fresh claw-marks . |
| 8 | She held an overhanging branch with one hand , as though to steady herself , and put up the other in a gesture of greeting . |
| 9 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Very well ! ’ sighed Isambard , and reached a hand to take up the candle in its iron holder from the rocky ledge of the wall . |
| 11 | Driver of Vickers Laboratories explained the procedure : ‘ You shake up the sample in carbon tet to extract the oil , dry it , and run an IR spectrum in the crucial region because it has no C-C bonds . |
| 12 | At this stage the author uses the light box to see through the paper , and by turning over the paper it is possible to drawn in with pencil on the reverse , a rough copper track layout which will link up the components in accordance with the circuit diagram . |
| 13 | jack London , as an American journalist visiting Britain , picked up the mood in The People of the Abyss ( 1902 ) . |
| 14 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 15 | I stuck my nose in the beaker and hoovered up the aroma in the approved fashion . |
| 16 | Drifter flowed up the gallop in a smooth fast rhythm and Tremayne said he would have a good chance at Worcester if his blood was right . |
| 17 | The majors have swept up the independents in licensing deals , or in Norman Jay 's case , have started to employ a new breed of A&R man … |
| 18 | Simply set up the machine in minutes , cast on over the 100 needles and off you go — sweaters in yarns from Double Knitting to Chunky can quickly be made using the famous BOND Classic Knitting System on which the new Sweater Machine is based . |
| 19 | Cords over the shoulders and under the armpits cross on the back to hold the garment down at speed , and break up the surface in a more superficial pattern of folds . |
| 20 | Mr Rifkind , Transport Secretary and former Scottish Secretary , wound up the campaign in Edinburgh on the same topic the Tories had used to open it — Scotland 's constitutional future and safeguarding the Union . |
| 21 | Already in January 1948 they had yielded up the clause in the wartime Quebec Agreement which stated that neither Britain nor the United States would use nuclear weapons without the consent of the other . |
| 22 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 23 | Passing me , she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again . |
| 24 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't even seen the original series — I must be about the only guy in the western hemisphere who has n't , ’ he said as the cast walked up the plank in Irvine , Ayrshire , to inspect the Vital Spark for the first time . |
| 26 | ‘ It gobbled up the bird in one go , ’ said a mournful bird-watcher yesterday . |
| 27 | To follow up the concern in the White Paper for the definition of levels of attainment , the government intend to introduce some kind of benchmark assessment , a point we made earlier , in an effort to improve standards . |
| 28 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 29 | More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers . |
| 30 | She picked up the foot in both her hands and nipped the jagged crescent with her teeth . |