Example sentences of "[vb base] up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all heard of the party game where a message is whispered form one person to the next : ‘ Send up reinforcements , we are going to advance ’ . |
| 2 | send up cloudlets on which she rides |
| 3 | ‘ Top up courses ’ … ‘ practice in other authorities and practical information ’ … ‘ a greater exchange of ideas ’ … ‘ new developments in libraries ’ . |
| 4 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 5 | Once you start paying the full rate , you build up benefits in your own right . |
| 6 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |
| 7 | It advised a future Conservative cabinet to : ( i ) build up stocks of coal at power stations ; ( ii ) plan contingency coal imports ; ( iii ) introduce dual oil and coal-fired burning in power stations ; ( iv ) cut the social security entitlements of strikers ; and finally , ( v ) set up mobile police squads to deal with flying pickets and obtain sufficient numbers of ‘ reliable ’ non-union drivers to cross picket lines . |
| 8 | to associate with others and build up relationships |
| 9 | It will therefore be free to retain surpluses and build up reserves , or to manage temporary deficits . |
| 10 | Kirov had used his services before , to produce false papers , touch up prints or produce blow-ups from microfilm . |
| 11 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 12 | Drunken yobs smash up shops |
| 13 | She 'd thought Harry was wonderful because he was able to mend her bicycle chain ; make bows and arrows and catapults ; shin up trees to collect birds ' eggs for her collection ; find dormice nests , badger setts and squirrel dreys . |
| 14 | ‘ The role of SSSI is not to say that the rest of the countryside does n't matter , but show up areas which should be preserved at all costs . ’ |
| 15 | They also show up fabrics and small-scale sedimentary structures in sandstones and siltstones . |
| 16 | ‘ If you have nothing better to do than prop up buildings , will you kindly go and find yourself a street corner and not clutter up my department ! |
| 17 | During the 90-minute session , they dabble with paper and paint , cut up magazines , print with bobbins and pastry cutters . |
| 18 | I remember he was fascinated about the Nilson murders , the man who cut up bodies and melted them down in his garden . ’ |
| 19 | Coleman 's introductory lecture began late in November , and students had to stay in London in the heat of the following summer , when in those pre-formalin days they cut up carcasses at some hazard to their health . |
| 20 | Bend up left foot , bend up toes |
| 21 | Being colour-blind has not cramped his style : ‘ Although , because I mix up greens and browns , I seem to have had lots of green hair . ’ |
| 22 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 23 | COVER UP DESIGNS LTD |
| 24 | What I failed to realise was that to those who never walk up mountains , visiting the bank , the post office and the dry cleaners on the same day is considered a triathlon . |
| 25 | When it rains , people put up umbrellas . |
| 26 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 27 | We gave them A.W.A.C.S. material , we put up satellites just for them . |
| 28 | Put up lengths in the usual way , smoothing with a sponge , then flatten seams with a seam roller . |
| 29 | The Freight and Transport Association wants the E C to step in after French lorry drivers put up blockades in retaliation at protests by their Spanish counterparts over fuel prices . |
| 30 | well , no , they put up laws to stop |