Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [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 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was loads of encouragement to all those who attended and took part to take up the sport on a regular basis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All day long wheelbarrows trundled up and down the unmade surface carrying topsoil to neaten up the edges of the path . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My duty was to supply conversation to break up the monotony of the heat-haze on the straight roads through the bush . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes . |
| 15 | All I 'm asking is that you take time to weigh up the deal I 'm offering and — Do you have a licence ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Janice was put forward for the competition after raising money to set up the centre . |
| 18 | He wanted time to weigh up the story , also to restrain his anger against the politicians . |
| 19 | At the slightest sign of disturbance , the termites drum out a warning on the earth , which causes the whole foraging party to disappear up the tunnels back to the nest . |