Example sentences of "[verb] up the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Thus we can always tell what colour a face should be by looking at its centre , regardless of how mixed up the cube is . |
| 2 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 3 | The trial judge seems to have mixed up the Caldwell and Cunningham versions of recklessness . |
| 4 | But however mixed up the plot may be , there 's no doubting the strength of the music : |
| 5 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 6 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 7 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 8 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 9 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 10 | Sure enough , I dived in the water , swam up the other end , and he came after me . |
| 11 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 12 | Thirty were to be converted into gun-sloops , by shoring up the bows to accommodate a 24-pounder [ 11-kg gun ] … |
| 13 | Just as many equality feminists opposed shoring up the traditional family at the beginning of the century , so present-day Labour has been challenged internally time and time again — and externally by the women 's and lesbians and gay liberation movements — on its sexual politics . |
| 14 | Clearly , the £250,000 reputably spent each year on shoring up the LTA 's publishing ego trip could be much better spend elsewhere . |
| 15 | On the other , he could have devoted his energies to shoring up the regime 's prestige , authority and ability to maintain order . |
| 16 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 17 | They were talking about the House of Representatives at Weimar — ‘ That troublesome place ’ , as the T'ang continually called it — and about ways of shoring up the tenuous peace that now existed between it and the Seven . |
| 18 | A stupid game dedicated to shoring up the notion that they did not want to play together . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the United States carried out a series of crisis measures apparently aimed at shoring up the dollar . |
| 21 | And the fella that was on it named has , lives up the Goldfinks , he , he 's still alive . |
| 22 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 23 | The little girl was frightened when she saw her mother being hustled up the aisle towards her . |
| 24 | Well we 've had all this trauma about you know , cos I do you , where do you want the he said well do n't see much of daddy or nan and granddad and nana and granddad said they moved in on Christmas Day stay here and Rachael and Steven would n't come up , stay here on Christmas Day , it 's quite likely , quite likely to go with daddy he said but , in many ways I he said I know what we can do is when we send up the chimney we could put nanny 's address , nanny 's address on it , shall we ? |
| 25 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 26 | send up the survey to old Hughey , he , he 'll give you a few . |
| 27 | I could buy up the whole block . |
| 28 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 29 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 30 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |