| With Brindley dropping back, less than two seconds covered Webster, Steinhausen and Reeves, but the North Yorkshire ace upped the pace. |
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| My big achievement for the day was talking to my new account exec at iPowerWeb and getting my storage space upped to 3gb. |
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| But this summer they upped the ante by merging with two other combined co-ops to form a super cooperative. |
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| If the film-makers had toned down the swells of music, upped the humanity, and found a clear direction, it might have been a powerful film. |
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| Added estrogen also upped the signaling capacity of nerve cells in the hippocampus, the brain's memory region. |
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| Hibs upped the ante even further in the second half and this was in no small a part due to Riordan and Brown, stretching Aberdeen on the wings. |
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| The next day, the government upped the ante, sending riot police with black shields and plastic face guards to the neighbourhood. |
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| She was very distressed and told me the family had upped and gone to England and she was very fearful for the safety of the two children. |
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| A few months later, the guy who owned and operated the company upped and vanished to avoid a legion of creditors, and has not been seen since. |
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| One track and I would have let it pass but they boogied on so at track four I upped and dressed to go knock on their door. |
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| Soccer and rugby fans could face difficulty catching matches in Bradford's pubs next season because Sky Sports has upped its subscriptions. |
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| That means that taxes will be upped when the Government decides to up them, and Parliament can whistle in the wind. |
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| Parkville upped it another gear and Colin Coady got on the end of a corner kick to poke the ball home and secure all three points for Parkville. |
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| Eventually I just upped and left at 17, went to London to find musicians to play with. |
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| The stakes were upped last Monday when the consequences of last summer's direct action protest were dealt out at Dingwall Sheriff Court. |
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| The loss of Labour's majority in last week's local elections has upped the political stakes as opposition parties try to negotiate the best deal. |
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| Although they caught the Yugoslavs by surprise, they were exposed somewhat when they upped a gear. |
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| Nothing untoward happened to the traitor until he upped sticks and defected to Moscow. |
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| Employers had difficulty holding on to employees as they upped stakes and changed employers at the drop of a hat or in the quest for more money. |
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| The visitors side upped their game in the second half when they had got used to the playing surface. |
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| He's not a well man, you know, and his most consistently highly-paid gig has just upped and sacked him. |
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| They upped the tempo somewhat but were guilty of ballooning some bad balls wide of their intended mark. |
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| The little blue pill has upped the stakes in indoor sport and whetted people's appetites for lifestyle drugs. |
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| The Texan's voice upped a pace and softened slightly, as the guitars zinged with country spice. |
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| It's just that if they upped the speed to 128 kilobits, the thing would get too hot to hold, and the battery would run down in ten minutes. |
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| When the pain inflicted by his bullying schoolfellow exceeded the pain-pleasure ratio, he upped and ran away from Repton. |
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| As if spurred on by this, Peebles upped the ante, taking two consecutive strikes against the head. |
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| Clubs can now take four short-term and four long-term loans at any one time, with the maximum allowed in any one match upped to five. |
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| At the heart of the CR-V beats Honda's lively new 2.0-litre i-VTEC engine with power output upped in 2002 to 150 bhp. |
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| The Government keeps changing the criteria and they are being upped again in April. |
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| One or two guys are clearly playing within a comfort zone and it is time they upped the pace a bit. |
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| True to her quirky nature the Essex girl upped her glamorous ways and traded in vajazzling for a scouse-brow. |
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| Squeezing some lemon over it, though, brought out some of the flavour and upped the tastiness a notch. |
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| Against the wine Villa upped their game but had to withstand some fierce Mill onslaughts before capturing the points. |
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| Thankfully most of the fashionista lookalikes have upped and offed by now, and so much the better. |
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| Wearing a huge sticking plaster over her right breast, she upped the stakes again and raised the bar again. |
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| I upped the protein with cottage cheese and boosted the fiber with whole-wheat bread. |
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| Every time anybody showed himself, Earl upped with that rifle and levelled down. |
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| The new editor has instead upped news content and there is talk of launching a News Review section. |
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| He applied the same cedar shingle siding and roofing he used the first time around on the new addition but upped the weatherproofing factor with a rubber roof membrane. |
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| She's upped sticks and gone to America, and she's ridden 55 winners this year. |
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| In February 2007, Boogaerts upped sticks and moved to Brussels where he began work on his new album. |
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| In 1994, U-cef upped sticks and moved to London where he had to rethink his career from scratch. |
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| After one particular row Iris upped and went to France to pick grapes. |
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| After finishing their A-levels the band upped and left for London. |
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| Now, the batteries in my alarm clock have just upped and died too. |
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| Anyway, housemate Big Al has upped and left for pastures green. |
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| As it turns out she's having her basic three-channel television reception upped to a cable package in anticipation of her daughter's homecoming from the hospital. |
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| It was revealed last week that Desmond has relocated his business to avoid tax in Britain-in other words, he's upped and offed in search of a better life. |
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| I understood that comprehensive education was designed to call a halt to the tragedy of those left behind when the grammar school kids upped and offed. |
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| Labour came third in 2010, when Clegg upped his majority to 15,284 with the Tories a distant second. |
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| Later the same day, he upped the ante by green-lighting a tv campaign. |
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| The frequency with which they had direct, person-to-person contact with researchers also upped their research use. |
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| So far, so Escoffier, but Otto recently upped the ante with an even more ancient lobster press. |
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| The Commission proposed a margin of EUR 137 million below the ceiling, but the Council has upped this to EUR 208 million. |
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| And both the Conservatives and Labour have upped their rhetoric on immigration in a bid to woo back Ukip voters. |
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| However, if the bid were upped to closer to their £30m valuation, the temptation to cash in on their prize asset would surely be irresistable. |
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| Langer didn't say that it was only arrogant gamblers who upped their bets in the presence of the schnook. |
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| He upped his game during the off season and figured out how to ski GS and the new skis better than anyone else. |
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| Not content with today's substantial sums, the government has again upped the ante for infrastructure spending. |
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| In response, South Ossetia's leadership upped the ante by announcing preparations to defend their unrecognized republic against a supposed Georgian invasion. |
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| But ITV upped its game later with some gloriously ill-conceived animated munchkins bearing a vague resemblance to the party leaders. |
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| But going into the last fence Mark and Another Rum upped the tempo and at the finish the pair stormed to the line, seven lengths clear of the chasers. |
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| The return of Hakan Calhanoglu to his former club had upped the aggro in the stadium and the bad vibes soon affected the players. |
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| The Saints upped the temperature as they began to attack relentlessly. |
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| By pushing our content into the heart of search engines we've upped our visitor numbers and got our cost per user down from 49p to 5p in four years. |
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| The side-by-side spin has been iffy for us and it has been the last one for us to get together, but overall we upped our skate from nationals and our throw and jumps worked out a lot better. |
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| Accompanied by simple guitar chords and subtle backing vocals, Mariam launches into a soft, languorous ballad before the rhythm is upped a tempo and carried away on the balafon. |
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| Already established in the capital as a cutting-edge venue, they have upped the ante with the launch of their new concept, Speakeasy. |
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| Time marches on, as do sportbikes, and 2010 saw the arrival of the standard-raising BMW S 1000 RR and Aprilia RSV4 Factory, two bikes that upped the performance bar several notches for street as well as track riding. |
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| In Northern Ireland, the amount of a parking ticket is cut from pounds 60 to pounds 30 if paid within two weeks, but upped after 28 days. |
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| The narrative tells how Jane, one of the originators of Neal's Yard Dairy, upped sticks and moved to this distant, ravishingly beautiful valley in between Hereford and Hay-on-Wye. |
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| Artistic directors have moved on or up, casting directors have upped sticks, literary managers have become dramaturges or have had their post axed. |
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| Formed out of the rump of the club that upped sticks and ended up as MK Dons, AFC Wimbledon were founded in May 2002 and have made a rapid rise up the league pyramid. |
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| And Lady Agnes has, understandably, upped sticks to Buckinghamshire. |
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| Moffou' was a way of marking my break from France because I'd been living in Montreuil for around ten years or so and then I suddenly upped sticks and moved back to Bamako. |
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| Dimitri upped the glam stakes for his next album, dreaming up sounds that would suit a mega-party organised in the legendary villa of Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner. |
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| The break in play failed to halt the charge from the ladies in red as they upped the tempo to pull further clear heading into the half-time. At the interval England had moved 31-19 in front. |
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| We upped our game with respect to working with other agencies. |
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| But on Robot Rock they appear to have upped the ante. |
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| Wheat got a lot of bearish attention with projected U. S. wheat stocks bumped to 712 million bushels and world wheat stocks upped six million tonnes to 156 million. |
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| The country also sentenced several former high-ranking public officials for corruption in 1998 and, under new 1997 laws, considerably upped the prison terms for some major drug traffickers. |
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| Some people were put off by the length of the operation, others felt their voices were not heard, others moved out when rents were upped, though not excessively. |
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| Once again, the revolutionary player's racquet has upped the ante. |
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| The top five groups upped their share by 16 points over the space of five years, reflecting a more aggressive commercial approach on this segment. |
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| However as pressures in both financial markets and the economy intensified, the Fed upped the ante in early December cutting the policy rate again to a target range of zero to one quarter of a percent. |
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| Some of that increase can be attributed to higher physician fees and the growing numbers of seniors. However, the main reason was that seniors had radically upped their visits to the doctor within the 10 years. |
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| The ante has been upped and now things are getting kind of fun. |
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| There are too many examples of successful entrepreneurs who have upped sticks and gone elsewhere. |
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| If a doctor had to do an operation in a sailing ship, you upped sticks and went before the wind, he said. |
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| However, at Smith's suggestion, the Barathea filly remained in training and has been upped to a mile and a half. |
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| Even as the battle for Taj Mahal continues between Shia and Sunni sect leaders, a section of Shia leaders have upped the ante. |
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| She first upped sticks and moved to Germany after reading an advert in The Stage looking for singers. |
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| Unable to handle the separation, close friends Steve and Mary Parker upped sticks and bought a house three doors down from them. |
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| Had he been shrewd he would have upped sticks in the early part of 2002 and taken himself and all his money to the Continent. |
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| At the very least, I feel like you upped the cool factor with this battle. |
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| The manager who drove their promotion, Phil Parkinson, upped sticks to Hull City while they also lost several key players, including Neil Danns to Blues. |
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| But it would be a major shock if the Bluebirds boss upped sticks to The Hawthorns and it's thought he has already given assurances to City that he is going nowhere. |
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| But now he has upped sticks and signed a two-year deal at Tannadice. |
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| Stourbridge upped the ante after the break, Nathan Bennett clattering the crossbar on 52 minutes from a corner and Leon Broadhurst skyed the rebound. |
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| We were doing a lot already but ideas such as adding vegetables to a homemade tomato sauce and fruits to milk puddings have upped the intake of fruits and vegetables. |
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| After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, they upped their game after the break and might have taken at least a point from the match. |
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| Actually, the elegant Michaels has upped his nuncupative game this season. |
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