Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Press releases with follow up phone calls to key journalists coupled with advertising in the trade weekly newspapers brings our message to a wide range of customers — from financial advisers to the general public . |
| 2 | Slow pea harvesting may boost prices by using up stocks that have been depressing the market |
| 3 | 18–11 Mrs McFarlane resumed her winter evening sewing and knitting classes for grown up girls and young women , in the female schoolroom . |
| 4 | The Americans do not seem to have had problems in setting up units which seek to provide permanence by offering specialist and intensive social work services both to natural families and to children joining substitute new families . |
| 5 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 6 | A sharp fall in the projected number of school-leavers is obliging employers to consider ways of making up shortfall by recruiting , and retaining , more women workers in their organisations . |
| 7 | It attributed problems to setting up sales channel , not technology . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't know yet whether the young players of today will have the same problems , ’ adds Sortland , who , despite the results , will not be advising children against taking up football . |
| 9 | It also asks councils to remove grass cuttings , which kill the plants underneath , and to take firm action to prevent farmers from ploughing up verges . |
| 10 | They need ways of shutting up shop , or at least of enduring , when conditions are simply impossible . |
| 11 | Xoren Computing Ltd , based in London , has announced version 2 of its Multi-Poll polling software package for a central host VAX computer : the software enables personal computers , Unix systems and VAXes at multiple remote branches to be telephone-polled by the central host , and is being targeted at vertical markets including retailing , distribution and banking ; new enhancements include procedures for setting up site details , lists of files to be transferred , modem details and re-try procedures , and reports and performance statistics ; no word yet on any prices for it . |