Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A previous rights issue in 1991 raised some £25 million and helped the company buy up development land at bargain prices . |
| 2 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 3 | This flat had to be sold by the council , and the ADC states that by allowing tenants to purchase such dwellings , the Government will ensure that over time younger households will buy up accommodation formerly occupied by older people ; |
| 4 | As the carriages were successively condemned , the ‘ receiver ’ , who ran the railway , would buy up job lots and you never knew if you would be travelling in something from the Brecon & Merthyr , the London & South Western , or the Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith . |
| 5 | Yeah , I think there 's is n't there in there really ? plain white bag I 'm going to hopefully put out in there to protect that , those groups I do n't know why that suddenly can fall up side down , but it 's alright . |
| 6 | This fact sheet actually says yes here , but eh , if you say no , then er it will free up disk space . |
| 7 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 8 | Special consideration of alternative strategies , such as nutritional or surgical intervention , is warranted for children who are already stunted at the time of diagnosis and therefore need extra catch up growth . |
| 9 | There are only certain ways , it seems , you can drum up support . |
| 10 | When she gon na pack up work ? |
| 11 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 12 | A report from US National Park Service scientists has argued that the proposed use of underground water systems by the city of Las Vegas may dry up water supplies in a large area of the National Park system . |
| 13 | Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand . |
| 14 | However , the New York-based human rights group Middle East Watch was reported on Dec. 17 to have estimated the deaths at 1,000 and arrests at 5,000 ; its director , Andrew Whiteley , was quoted as saying that there was no wish to overstate human rights abuses in order to " whip up war fever " . |
| 15 | Hong Kong Land 's low gearing , and chairman Simon Keswick 's suggestion that he could snap up property at depressed prices , triggered hopes the company was interested in Canary Wharf . |
| 16 | European Marketing , Chevenoz , France , will market YMI 's stuff on the continent , UK , Oxford-based Phase IV Systems will head up support services for Europe and sell to VARs — Open Minds AB of Lund , Sweden , will market YMI 's educational software . |
| 17 | The government says it will break up state monopolies , liberalise prices , set up an independent central bank and introduce a single rouble exchange rate . |
| 18 | You must concentrate on a dairy and maybe a few tender crops we could never grow up north . |
| 19 | Scavengers , contrary to popular belief do not suck up mud and stones from the floor of the pool , but feed upon uneaten fish food and in the case of snails , on troublesome algae as well . |
| 20 | Dear God , I must give up drink . |
| 21 | She must n't give up hope she told herself . |
| 22 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 23 | Do n't give up hope , my darling . |
| 24 | With a little group of people who did n't give up hope . |
| 25 | ‘ You must n't give up hope . ’ |
| 26 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 27 | ‘ One day there will be a breakthrough and people should never give up hope . |
| 28 | Despite moments of despondency , de Gaulle himself certainly did not give up hope . |
| 29 | Do n't give up , do n't give up hope . |
| 30 | Joan said : ‘ I want people to know that Brian has never been forgotten and that we will never give up hope that his murderer will be found . ’ |