Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All we 've got to do is go back to London and get Joe to set up a workshop there and work himself silly .
2 Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time .
3 It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage .
4 He asked Ranulf to hold up a candle and carefully examined the inscription on the faded , leather collar : ‘ Noli me tangere ’ .
5 I never find myself , fatigue in the voice , reminding Flaubert to hang up the bathmat or use the lavatory brush .
6 In the meantime , since no amount of nagging would persuade Maxie to rake up the leaves or to allow her to employ a man to do it , she would have to do the job herself .
7 A last-minute alteration introduced by Khasbulatov regarding governmental structures would effectively require Yeltsin to give up the premiership within three months , instead of at the end of the year .
8 Mr Christopher plans to ask Israel to speed up a review of the case .
9 I wished ICAO to take up the matter with a view to ensuring that the State of registry should have the primary right to salvage the aircraft .
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