Example sentences of "up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sheikh motioned us to sit down , left his men outside , and picked up the phone on the table . |
| 2 | We were called by EMI , RCA , Arista , Warner Brothers and I hung up the phone on all of them . |
| 3 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 4 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 5 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 6 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 7 | The ‘ specially urgent need to take whatever steps were immediately possible to improve the safety testing of drugs ’ in the light of the thalidomide disaster led the Joint Sub-Committee on Safety of Drugs to set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs in 1963 . |
| 8 | White liberals , including the President 's wife , Eleanor , gave their support to the cause of the blacks , and in 1941 Roosevelt set up the Committee on Fair Employment Practices . |
| 9 | Normally playing seated amphitheaters , our audience and the Mary Chain 's tend to be up the back on the lawns . |
| 10 | Creeping up the backstairs on her return from the Galleon , she 'd foolishly thought she was safe . |
| 11 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 12 | Katz also pushed up the bidding on a finely carved and drilled colossal marble bust of Lucius Verus ( lot 84 ) , attributed during the viewing to Carlo Albacini , which sold for £45,000 ( $72,000 , est. £8,000–10,000 ) . |
| 13 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 14 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 15 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 16 | Go right and fall down , go left and push the crate right onto the button , go left to a wall , duck down and crawl under it , go left and fall down , go right , fall down and collect the main tape deck , go right , then up on the platforms , right , down , and collect the battery , push the crate left and go up on the lift , go left to a button , then jump two platforms to your right , and then onto the platform to your left , push the crate down onto the button and fall down , go up on the lift , then right to the next lift , go up the passage on the lift and ledge , and then go left along the top . |
| 17 | The heat tended to dry up the gum on stamps and getting them to stick on was the very devil . |
| 18 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 19 | By using different ways to add up the forces on each star from the infinite number of other stars in the universe , one can get different answers to the question of whether the stars can remain at constant distances from each other . |
| 20 | Use a flat file ( or the flat side of a half-round file ) to clean up the burr on the outside of the pipe so that the pipe will enter the fitting |
| 21 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 22 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 23 | He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the computer system , installing new software and setting up the accounts on which LIFESPAN users will do most of their work . |
| 24 | ‘ What we wanted to tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ was that we'se goin' up the woods on Saturdee and we was wonderin' if you 'd come with us like . ’ |
| 25 | Rolling over , he assumed a sitting position and used his heels to push himself up the slates on his backside until he was seated astride the apex of the roof . |
| 26 | We will tighten up the rules on holiday brochures and contracts , and introduce a ‘ cooling-off ’ period into timeshare contracts . |
| 27 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 28 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 29 | Taking up the wager on behalf of ADT Healthquest , Coe 's idea to encourage people to develop more active and healthy lifestyles seemed , he said , an obvious extension . |
| 30 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |