Example sentences of "[verb] them [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 2 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 3 | This is a unique chance for them to retain the use of this line and I urge them to keep up the pressure . |
| 4 | Once all the letters are found , the object is to unscramble them to make up the phrase and you can make the first person the winner . |
| 5 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 6 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 7 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 8 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 9 | " Princes cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not decide them to give up a rank which they believe to be their right " . |
| 10 | Later , when modern machinery enabled them to speed up the process , the realisation came that twenty-five acres was probably more than enough to cope with , what with the borders , lawns and terraces into the bargain . |
| 11 | This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth . |
| 12 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |