Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] or [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 2 | In order not to obstruct gangways or take up rack space , dry powder systems would have to be designed with extensive pipework feeding nozzles located in the racks or gangways from a centralised , pressurised storage unit . |
| 3 | When we worked it out as an average that the sheer monitoring and chasing quotes or following up quotes erm and just preparing the documentation , we were n't convinced that was the case at all . |
| 4 | exchange rate policy when there exist indivisibilities or set up costs of switching between different industries in the presence of a non-permanent supply of North Sea Oil . |
| 5 | In the past 5 years , while making arrests or breaking up fights , he 's suffered a broken nose , a fractured collarbone and a serious back injury . |
| 6 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |