Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 2 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 3 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 4 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 5 | The scheme will be targeted at 25–35 year-old chemical engineers or chemists to encourage them to take up the available lecturing academic posts and to carry out teaching and research on environmental issues . |
| 6 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 7 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 8 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 9 | This allows you to set up a different sound by altering the mid emphasis , coupled with selectable additional boost which can then be triggered by either the front panel ‘ enable ’ switch or via a footswitch . |
| 10 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 11 | Because obviously it 's , they are going to some of the paving , we do n't wanting it running up a small onto the next lot . |
| 12 | Let us sum up the main points . |
| 13 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 14 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |
| 15 | On alternate days walk at a slower pace to help you build up a regular habit of walking . |
| 16 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 17 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 18 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 19 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 20 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 21 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 22 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 23 | Carrie watched him go up the steep main street . |
| 24 | Mungo watched him pile up the treble twenties , thinking of the small boy adopted by the woodcutter . |
| 25 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 26 | I ask them to build up a Personal Language Profile ( either on their own or by interviewing each other ) which they then share with others in the group . |
| 27 | The programs were originally written for BBC machines because their ‘ user-defined graphics ’ facility enabled me to bring up the special phonetic symbols on screen . |
| 28 | Many people use them to build up a tax-free fund for youngsters which they get at 18 or 21 , although you are restricted to one scheme per person . |
| 29 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 30 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |