Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 2 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 3 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 4 | Be prepared for off the subject remarks — put in to perk up the interview , or comments like ‘ so you all prance about in leotards , then ? ’ |
| 5 | In France , tanks and riot police have been drafted in to break up the blockade of lorries , but the dispute continues . |
| 6 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 7 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 8 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 9 | Even such apparently social differences as women 's larger attendance at church and enthusiasm for coffee mornings , and men 's greater participation in Rotarian meetings , are roped in to back up the argument ( Hutt 1972 ) . |
| 10 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 11 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 13 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |