Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped my dad clear up the house — he 's very good at that . |
| 2 | The age at which parents want their baby to give up the breast or bottle varies markedly . |
| 3 | But only a week ago she clashed with Mr Smith after he snubbed her request to wind up the Commons debate on the pit closures . |
| 4 | When you want to make a call , you just speak your code to wake up the phone , say ‘ Dial ’ , tell it the number you want , say ‘ Send ’ and you 're through in seconds . |
| 5 | Jordan temporarily closes its border to hold up the influx of refugees . |
| 6 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 7 | your mum 's got her fanny stuck up the exhaust of it . |
| 8 | Amidst calls to bring back the birch and to inaugurate ‘ Saturday night floggings ’ for soccer hooligans , Mr William Whitelaw reaffirmed his pledge to toughen up the law by introducing a new regime of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres modelled on the Army ‘ glass house ’ system of physical drill and unrelenting discipline . |
| 9 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
| 10 | Her father held her tightly until her eyes began to close and from far away she heard her mother pick up the cup and saucer . |
| 11 | Brian Fletcher on Red Rum thought he was , and urged his mount to keep up the pursuit . |
| 12 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 13 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 14 | With its horn blaring and its lights flashing , the bus had left its route to take up the chase . |
| 15 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | Say 12345 , first making your voice go up the scale ( you are not singing , just using your speaking voice ) , then going down the scale . |
| 17 | Every major road out of the centre had its tramway running up the centre of a dual carriageway . |
| 18 | She moved her torso without breaking the union , and stretched her arm to pick up the phone . |
| 19 | It was obviously far more interesting to spend his time chatting up the local talent . |
| 20 | His final work , on children , he advertised as fulfilling his promise to follow up the Tractatus , but in ‘ more hast ’ , because ‘ I see my glasse runs apace ’ : De morbis puerorum , or , a treatise of the diseases of children … very useful for all such as are housekeepers ( 1653 ) . |
| 21 | So you 've got to learn how to cultivate your ability to summon up the levels that you need when they 're particularly needful . |
| 22 | Eight years after setting a world mile record which still remains unchallenged today , the 32-year-old has abandoned his glittering international miling career to make his eagerly-awaited move up the distance ladder . |
| 23 | For his part Ivashko promised following his election to give up the Ukrainian CP leadership , and at a party congress on June 22-23 he was replaced as first secretary by his former deputy , Stanislav Gurenko . |