Example sentences of "[v-ing] up [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 2 | Toby Marten , Dead Certain 's owner , paid only 5,800 guineas for her and even after stumping up £10,000 to supplement her for yesterday 's race , he is still well over six figures in the plus in prize money , not to mention Dead Certain 's enormous intrinsic value . |
| 3 | Guinness is stumping up £750 and Helen plans to raise the rest through events including a sponsored abseil . |
| 4 | Sugar , who with his directors holds a 36% stake in the group , is stumping up £19.5m of his own money for the deal . |
| 5 | Bandaging up people when they 'd been hur-hur-hur — ’ |
| 6 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 7 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 8 | It 's picking up people who do n't have end date . |
| 9 | The government subsidy made it likely that the staff of the two papers were less worried about pushing up sales than were their counterparts on the then Lonrho-owned Standard . |
| 10 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |
| 11 | Pattullo and Whitaker were in turn lining up staff . |
| 12 | A few swims on the Frome at Lugwardine are turning up dace and odd chub . |
| 13 | Make sex discussions much less of a trial with the Family Planning Association 's new Growing Up series of leaflets : Answering Your Child 's Questions , for parents ; How Your Body Changes , for teenagers . |
| 14 | £1.50 each , £3 the set ( inc p&p ) , from Growing Up Series , FPA , 27–35 Mortimer St , London W1N 7RJ . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding such examples , children growing up m a rapidly changing technological society can not be expected to master all that they require to know if their learning is totally haphazard and unstructured . |
| 16 | And say ‘ look , part of growing up means that you 're going to have to deal with nastiness ’ |
| 17 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 18 | The first task that we have is to present ourselves and that way we can get into the papers and on to the TV and smash those trends that are destroying things , sucking up people 's blood . |
| 19 | It envisages sucking up 45% of the multi-user Intel market in the first 24 months of NT 's life . |
| 20 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 21 | Mr Merlyn Rees as Labour Home Secretary had given voice to the more usually reticent position early in 1978 when he charged Mrs Thatcher with ‘ an irresponsible and dangerous approach to law and order … whipping up people 's fears in a ‘ cynical ’ ’ attempt to win votes ' . |
| 22 | Earlier on you were talking about erm the dredger bringing up fish or you your father |
| 23 | Where was the best place for bringing up fish on the river ? |
| 24 | Very difficult indeed , you did n't like calling up people at a private house and ask if we could use the phone . |
| 25 | For the year ending Mar 31 , 1991 , we have made mainly useful progress with the herd average moving up 770kg to 7320kg a cow of standard milk ( ie corrected to 3.8% butterfat and 3.2% protein ) or 7400kg at 3.89BF and 3.03 protein uncorrected . |
| 26 | Well they want to move it they want to develop the area and er now they 're talking as well about taking the trees out from around there too which is really getting up people 's noses it would seem . |
| 27 | Then he threw in the spice and seasoning : ‘ By stirring up people 's fears unnecessarily , jobs have been endangered by the Labour Opposition . ’ |
| 28 | Futures contracts do not require any carrying costs , for instance the loss of interest on money invested in margins , and so the futures price is higher than the spot price by Sr , the interest foregone by tying up £ S in the stock market . |
| 29 | Intel Corp shares were bouncing late Tuesday , closing up $4.375 at $101.375 on excitement generated by a suggestion from Alex Brown & Sons analyst Erik Jansen that he believed Intel was negotiating to use an IBM Corp chip plant in order to boost production of 80486 and Pentium computer . |
| 30 | Giving up fruit may make you concerned about Vitamin C deficiency , but if you eat sufficient quantities of fresh vegetables this should not be a problem . |