Example sentences of "in [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten days later , when the agents moved in to round up their targets , El-Jorr checked out and returned to Cyprus , charging the hotel bill to his American Express card as instructed . |
| 2 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 3 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 4 | When the Exxon Valdez sank in 1989 , coating Prince William Sound in raw crude , more than 10,000 Americans and about $2 billion were drafted in to clean up . |
| 5 | Hays had been called in to clean up Hollywood following the wave of scandals which began when Roscoe ‘ Fatty ’ Arbuckle was tried for rape and manslaughter , and continued with the murder of William Desmond Taylor . |
| 6 | When she had looked in to clean up the following day the meal was still on the table , untouched . |
| 7 | So he goes out there and they all turn round and say , stuff you , I 'm not coming in to clean up for four pound and hour which again equates to six pound an hour . |
| 8 | Conveniently , Donald John MacDonald , Manager of Castlebay Branch , was waiting to help me fill in the hour before the Glasgow based Loganair Twin Otter was due to come in to pick up those flying on to Tiree and Glasgow . |
| 9 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 11 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 12 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 13 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 14 | So with that call it coincidence , call it what you like but one of these low-loaders come in to pick up a caravan or something like . |
| 15 | What about tonight then er Gary 's out , erm who 's gon na come in to play up front instead of him ? |
| 16 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 17 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 18 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 19 | Derek Easton came in to put up my chignon and ‘ wire up ’ my fringe . |
| 20 | After the 1990 floods , when farmland was submerged , many sheep were lost and Perth was inundated , the engineers Babtie Shaw and Morton were called in to draw up a preliminary study . |
| 21 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 22 | In addition Sotheby 's experts will be drafted in to start up sales in new areas such as furniture . |
| 23 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 24 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 25 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 26 | Even such apparently social differences as women 's larger attendance at church and enthusiasm for coffee mornings , and men 's greater participation in Rotarian meetings , are roped in to back up the argument ( Hutt 1972 ) . |
| 27 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 28 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 30 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |