Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] up [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 2 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 3 | My attempt to make a bicycle chain run more smoothly on an expensive light alloy racing crank by hitting the pedals with a large axe probably summed up my adolescent mechanical bent best . |
| 4 | It was for injured hedgehogs he and his wife Sue originally set up their wildlife hospital , St. Tiggywinkles — and now he 's made a video with all you need to know about taking care of the hedgehog which despite their reputation , he says performed beautifully : |
| 5 | I find the Automatic Linker and Rib Transfer Carriage really speed up my knitting and save a lot of shoulder and neckache . |
| 6 | Forty years on Marcel 's wife Ellen now makes up his appreciative audience . |
| 7 | Phil Mitchell , ex-FYT field officer for the North West , and his wife Lyn , decided a few months ago to open up their home to young people . |
| 8 | Unhappily a gale of enormous force then blew up which threw the marquee to the ground and we were left clinging to the posts in order to remain upright . |
| 9 | Later , when Aurangzeb ordered the decapitation of the naked fakir Sarmad , an Armenian Jew who had converted to Islam , the sage allegedly picked up his head and walked up the steps of the Jama Masjid . |
| 10 | The separated ions are converted back to atoms by passing them through lithium vapour , from which the ions easily pick up their missing electrons . |
| 11 | The New York Mercantile Exchange quickly picked up his lead . |
| 12 | The boy now gives up his Oedipal wishes because he would rather keep his penis , and he takes the castration threat seriously , having seen a castrated person . |
| 13 | The tricksters then look up their victims ' phone numbers and call them — posing as bank officials who need to know the owners ' personal identity numbers . |
| 14 | Cornelius hastily snatched up his bags . |
| 15 | The girl never pulled up her ankle socks . |
| 16 | The Chancellor recently summed up his own achievements on this front by observing ‘ I have lightened the tax on inheritance very considerably , both by cutting the rates , and by granting exemptions for lifetime transfers ’ ( interview with Bruce Anderson , Sunday Telegraph , 9 October 1988 ) . |
| 17 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 18 | Mr Williams eventually set up his own painting and decorating business which he ran until failing sight brought retirement more than ten years ago . |
| 19 | Tamar 's enthusiasm for the place momentarily brightened up her face . |
| 20 | Micro Focus Plc yesterday stepped up its presence in the Unix market with launch of Micro Focus Transaction System , a distributed , client-server transaction processing system that runs under Unix , AIX OS/2 and Windows NT , which can act as servers for other copies of Transaction System and for CICS OS/2 , CICS/6000 and Transaction System thin clients . |
| 21 | BOXING : Manchester trainer and manager Phil Martin yesterday signed up his Champs Camp stable with promoter and manager Mickey Duff . |
| 22 | the women who bring up their children in poverty still bring up their children in poverty . |
| 23 | So Tommy the waiter carefully hung up his yellow waistcoat with its white lining and ordered some wine from room service and in a while after a long easing shower slept for eight solid hours and did n't dream about Filmer . |
| 24 | The ironmongers also built up their businesses by using the human and material resources of their families . |
| 25 | He returned 15 years later to set up what he described as the ‘ government of God ’ . |
| 26 | Psychologists often divide up their subject into ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ areas . |
| 27 | Bulgaria has been similarly affected and four years ago wound up their two leading clubs , Levski Spartak and CSKA Sofia , the army side , after the players reduced the Cup final to a brawl . |
| 28 | Your government did n't have any courage then to back up it 's own man , and force through some changes , and so I do n't know what your policy is , it seems to change every couple of years . |
| 29 | Luckily , my after-match tantrum in the dressing room certainly shook up my rabble and got a good performance against Frampton . |
| 30 | ‘ Madame ! ’ she called , and Miranda quickly bundled up her clothes and streaked across the landing , as the proprietress came heaving up the curving stair , the rail quaking in her grasp . |