Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 2 | A meeting at the end of the Summer term provides an opportunity to sum up progress over the year and to talk parents through school reports particularly in terms of National Curriculum attainment levels and programmes of study . |
| 3 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 4 | For the record , too , the Press spokesman said the president only had the haircut because he was assured that doing so would not tie up traffic at the airport . |
| 5 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 6 | Norway 's most eloquent campaigner against the Community is Anne Enger Lahnstein , leader of the Centre Party , which , like the anti-EC Socialist Left Party , is picking up support at the expense of Labour , which forms the minority government . |
| 7 | Mr Bond said : ‘ There are 33 independent milkmen who are all helping out by picking up food around the town . |
| 8 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 9 | Art , picking up confidence from the decline of religion , announces its transcendence of the world ( and it lasts , it lasts ! art beats death ! ) , but this announcement is n't accessible to all , or where accessible is n't always inspiring or welcome . |
| 10 | In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight . |
| 11 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 12 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 13 | As they are used single-handed , they make it easier to dead-head flowers , prune shrubs , cut up chicken for the barbecue , and shape materials like leather , canvas , etc , for craftwork . |
| 14 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 15 | She must , however , give up work before the start of the sixth week before the EWC if she is to get SMP for the full eighteen weeks . |
| 16 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 17 | I think my being there was a put up job between the lady and the billeting officer . |
| 18 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 19 | A HAMBLETON businessman is to set up shop outside the area after allegedly being given a rough ride by the district council . |
| 20 | Should both the Clacton and Harwich travel-to-work areas receive assisted area status firms can be given grants to set up shop in the area . |
| 21 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 22 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 23 | Tim 's coming up to move the bath back and all that you see , this old bath and erm , do some pipe work , but until that 's all done , erm , er , until this woman is sorted out , because if I find in the end we 've got to insulate again , then I know how I feel , I mean that tongue and groove going up polystyrene in the lounge and yesterday I think he 's got a new organ |
| 24 | Who believes that by working now we can store up security for the future ? |
| 25 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 26 | This , of course , will use up space on the memory card , but in practice you probably would n't save too many versions of the pattern , as too many stitches between the repeats will lead to long floats on the reverse side of the knitting . |
| 27 | What counts in cases such as this is ensuring continued pressure and publicity at national level , while also working with a local group , which can keep up pressure on the spot by stirring up the interest of local authorities and the regional branch of the National Trust . |
| 28 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 29 | The tree roots act like a giant sponge when the rain falls , drawing up water from the ground which is then given off as vapour through the leaves . |
| 30 | It was a more acute problem by the time of 2 Peter : chapter 3 of that Letter is specifically directed towards those who have given up hope in the Return of Christ . |