Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 4 | Alan Smith ( Thornaby ) beat the 70-string field ledgering bread to pick up a trio of chub totalling 7.12.0 from the willows on the buff length . |
| 5 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 6 | They walked back into the main bar and found Knocker mopping up the bar . |
| 7 | The New Zealand ‘ open ’ adoption approach has not used research to follow up the parties involved beyond the initial years following placement , and the children involved in the arrangement are yet to be interviewed . |
| 8 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 9 | THE new British motor racing season moves up a gear at Silverstone today with the first big meeting of the year — and five young Ulster drivers will be part of it . |
| 10 | At each stage , if they pass , the employees name badge moves up a colour and their pay increases accordingly . |
| 11 | Four young girls are hanged for smuggling dynamite to blow up an Auschwitz crematorium . |
| 12 | Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes . |
| 13 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 14 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 15 | Z2033 remained on display at Duxford in its naval colours until September 1989 when Ken Evans and Herbie Church , two volunteers with the IWM , started work to tidy up the aircraft , working at the outset just one or two days a week . |
| 16 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cradle swings for younger children would be made of rubberised material and those for older children would have hand grips up the ropes . |
| 19 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 20 | Franklin placed his own hopes on the idea that the Westminster Parliament would pass legislation to set up a union . |
| 21 | Is there enough time left in one scene to allow time to set up an Inlay shot using two cameras on the next scene ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 26 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 27 | Duncan had left Myeloski propping up the bar , drinking his customary vodka and Budweiser chaser . |
| 28 | From the File menu , selecting VIEW opens up a window full of thumbnail representations of the images resident in the current directory . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The wide , chiselled mouth tilted up a fraction at one side as he detected her dismay . |