Example sentences of "[verb] up [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without these , you ca n't really tell whether or not it was a good idea to set up yet another restaurant in the city centre . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 3 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 4 | Bukharin specifically warned against tying up too many resources in long-term capital projects , and argued for a balanced approach which would actually yield a greater product : |
| 5 | you did , you 're the cleverest girl in the world are n't you ? there 's your space suit where are you ? , come here while I pull your pants up , pants up first , pants up first lets run some water wait a minute your trousers are not pulled up right both hands in a little bit of soap on , now rub them together good rinse , get all the soap off , right shake , rattle and roll , hands washed , I mean dried sorry |
| 6 | Every day the company will serve up around 12,000 meals in 88 primary and secondary schools in the borough . |
| 7 | In the city they are cooped up together all day in an apartment . |
| 8 | It 's going to finish up about ten yards in front of me . |
| 9 | Alf Clark of the Modern Sequence Dance Club said that the stage took up too much room in the hall which was created for a much smaller population than the village now has . |
| 10 | Butler took up precisely this issue in her introduction to Women 's Work and Women 's Culture , 1869 . |
| 11 | Newlyweds whose wedding present list notched up more that £600 in sales of Wedgwood tableware were presented with a pair of free air tickets to Paris . |
| 12 | First , other parties in the UUUC put up rather fewer candidates in certain constituencies than quotas of first preference votes would have suggested and there was a subsequent transfer of votes from those parties in VUPP 's favour . |
| 13 | The trouble is that , like with the fuzzy guitar , you 've then taken up so much space in the mix . |
| 14 | The union did everything possible to convince the government that this had done no more than mop up previously persistent unemployment in the industry and to persuade its members to join their ships , and to do so on time , so that their departures should not be delayed . |
| 15 | ‘ One goes on living and everyone else is dead , ’ Ivy remarked , spooning up lovingly late strawberries in a sabayon sauce . |
| 16 | Before yesterday 's game against Bangor , the team had already piled up almost 100 points in its first two games of the season , against CIYMS and Coleraine . |
| 17 | Then I store the magazines in the bottom of the wardrobe as they take up too much space in my knitting room . |