Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 2 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 3 | They walked back into the main bar and found Knocker mopping up the bar . |
| 4 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 5 | Both machines should have cue/review to speed up the location and setting of edit-points , this being the most time-consuming part of the process . |
| 6 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 8 | Rain made a mental note to get Holly to follow up the story next day , she could visualize it leading the column on Friday unless anything better turned up . |
| 9 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 10 | Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar , drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser . |
| 11 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 12 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 13 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 14 | All I 'm asking is that you take time to weigh up the deal I 'm offering and — Do you have a licence ? ’ |
| 15 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 16 | Janice was put forward for the competition after raising money to set up the centre . |
| 17 | And you have acid coming up the gullet , |
| 18 | He wanted time to weigh up the story , also to restrain his anger against the politicians . |
| 19 | Each time a new worksheet is opened , you usually spend time setting up the row and column headings . |