Example sentences of "up the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up the phone directory and , sure enough , there was a P.Lawn , ( luckily not a common name ! ) , from which we surmised , correctly , that Ken had died but Pat was still there . |
| 2 | She did not leave as Corbett took up the pewter spoon and began to eat . |
| 3 | He walked over and picked up the pewter goblet , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 4 | The Tigers were said by the government to have blown up the defence minister , Ranjan Wijeratne , in March 1991 , and a general , Denzil Kobbekaduwa , in August 1992 . |
| 5 | To alleviate hardship when a bank becomes insolvent the Banking Act 1979 set up the Deposit Protection Fund . |
| 6 | Peter picked up the exercise book and slipped it into the box he had brought down from the loft . |
| 7 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 8 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 9 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 10 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 11 | Bash , your readers need you — only you can up the slaughter rate . ’ |
| 12 | By covering the food during microwave cooking you can speed up the cooking procedure . |
| 13 | I do believe he almost tried to catch them but I was too busy by then , swinging up the trumpet case and trying to use it as a battering-ram into Shifty-Eyes ' midriff , or private parts if I was lucky . |
| 14 | She held up the polythene bag that was half full of grain , her grain . |
| 15 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 16 | I rang up the ticket office but just got a recorded message . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't want to wake up the ticket collector . |
| 18 | Because of his superior position the capitalist can take advantage of the worker by speeding up the work process , extending the working day , or even displacing him with machinery . |
| 19 | Others included speeding up the work process , automation , the increased reliance on part-time workers and female workers , and the lowering of pollution controls and safety standards . |
| 20 | Microsoft says it has moved up the publication date of its Win32s application programming interface , a subset of the Win32 application programming interface in NT , to this quarter . |
| 21 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 22 | Now somebody very very er cleverly brought up the word client perception and in fact we h were given the definition earlier from Hughie 's notes , of meeting and exceeding customer expectations . |
| 23 | Left by the kitchen door at the rear of the house , walked cautiously up the back alley and quickly worked my way through a maze of quiet back streets thinking about it . |
| 24 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 25 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 26 | If you find that it is difficult to knit after the stitches are crossed , push up the back bed needle marked X on the row before the transfer the release the loop from this needle and put the needle into non-working position . |
| 27 | After breakfast of tea without milk and rolls with cheese and marmalade , I wrote myself reminders of what to discuss today at the ‘ Keep Trying ’ bakery , collected useful handouts and a picnic lunch , fetched the bike from its tiny sleeping house , pumped up the back tyre and I was off . |
| 28 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 29 | I had you come up the back way " |
| 30 | Jed spent most of the afternoon in the parking-lot , wiring up the back seat . |