Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] up the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if you want to read up the background to all this , this is th one of the best books and one of the most recent on the reading list , it 's on the reading list on the second page or something . |
| 2 | In fact they had Mala 's and my molecu-prints and other data from our previous visits , and that helped to speed up the process to a slow crawl . |
| 3 | Our conference , which Delamothe said was attended by ‘ political activists and pensioners , ’ was intended to open up the debate to the public and to inform people using the service . |
| 4 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 5 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps not — but there 's precious little risk of that happening these days , and anyway , what happened to speed up the return to ‘ normal ’ after birth ? |
| 7 | when the reactor was left hot on that July morning , heat would have crept up the metal to the condenser and melted the crystals , letting tetrachlorobenzene flow back into the reactor and lie in a concentrated layer on top of its contents . |
| 8 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 9 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 10 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 11 | It was claimed that Goebbels had raised up the Führer to be the ‘ German god ’ . |
| 12 | I waited until Duncan had winched up the Golf to the road and exchanged the rope for the winch hook which lifted the front of the VW off the ground so it could be towed . |
| 13 | The work is being carried out on behalf of English heritage , which is planning to open up the Friary to the public once renovation work has been completed . |
| 14 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |