Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 2 | You do n't need to pump up the revs to get it to move swiftly and smoothly up through the gears , and it is n't a noisy performer by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 3 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 4 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 5 | A factory in Northamptonshire has taken up the challenge to create the fish footwear . |
| 6 | However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector . |
| 7 | Right do we want to set up the mouse to display the environment , or what ? |
| 8 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 9 | Following a critical report about screening , the Imperial Cancer Research Fund plans to tighten up the programme to catch victims earlier — saving up to 1,000 women a year . |
| 10 | So the state has no had to tighten up the law to cut the cost . |
| 11 | So despite the payment reinstatement of the sacked journalists is still no nearer but some intend to keep up the pressure to get their jobs back . |
| 12 | The mixed feelings at having given up the struggle to cope with the family member at home can lead to a diminution of visits , which may be painful at times . |
| 13 | His difficulty is accompanied by a no doubt symptomatic increasing distrust of universals so that , in championing specificities against them , he seems to give up the attempt to validate the universals — History as Totalization — that originally formed the object of his project . |
| 14 | But that would be a kind of failure , having summoned up the courage to go this far , to take this step ; and though he had warned her that it might hurt a little , she trusted him : he was so gentle , so mature . |
| 15 | That means either taxpayers or consumers will have to cough up the cash to make up the difference between expensive British coal and cheaper foreign coal . |
| 16 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 17 | These ones up in the town , did the boatmen used to have to go up the town to find |
| 18 | Eventually , as much for hygienic reasons as out of a desire to conform with Moscow 's example of de-Stalinization , the Czechs were forced to give up the battle to keep Gottwald 's corpse from going green and bury him instead . |
| 19 | LEFT Ruffling up the feathers to make yourself look bigger is a common defensive measure in a lot of birds . |
| 20 | Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one . |
| 21 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 22 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 23 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 24 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 25 | Perhaps — no , not perhaps , but because McAllister , with all her youthful ebullience and charm , was in his house , she had revived something in him which he did not want to feel and he had called up the demon to assuage it — no , to kill it . |
| 26 | I could wake up tomorrow , and I 'd be back where I started , working in the tyre factory trying to save up the money to release a single . ’ |
| 27 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 28 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 29 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 30 | She was getting tired of the equipment — the leash and ring and creance — slowing her down , and I had to pluck up the courage to let her fly free for the first time . |