Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never had the opportunity to tell Christie of my method of making up crews , At Kinloss when I was chair-bound there for a short period , all too frequently I received complaints about the composition of crews . |
| 2 | It seemed that the police , in Leipzig at least , had lost their enthusiasm for beating up citizens pressing for change . |
| 3 | Miliutin realized that landowners would not take kindly to his plan of campaign , but he felt that the government could win their support by setting up gentry committees to work out local details and by sanctioning a debate on peasant affairs in the press . |
| 4 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 5 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 6 | But she wants her share of bringing up baby , too . ’ |
| 7 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 8 | Cleveland SSD has said it will ‘ defend strongly ’ its arrangement for drawing up contracts . |
| 9 | Lucy gnawed her lower lip while she sat cursing her stupidity in bringing up Doreen 's name . |
| 10 | Merrill Lynch has effectively sold Waste Management short and will cover its position by picking up stock from any investors stagging the issue ( or ‘ flipping ’ in transatlantic speak ) . |
| 11 | It was only in the 1850s , while Prussia was ‘ filling in ’ the gaps of its network by connecting up places like Danzig , that Warsaw received its first major rail connections . |
| 12 | The state 's duty to support families in their task of bringing up children and its duty to protect children from significant harm are both enhanced . |
| 13 | Can make it sort of drive up mountains and things |
| 14 | Labour 's deputy leader Margaret Beckett immediately hit back , saying voters would never forgive his party for propping up Mr Major and paving the way for ‘ savage ’ public spending cuts . |
| 15 | " I hope you did n't change your mind about taking up languages , " said Miss Haines , finally , and with a slight constraint . |
| 16 | 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 . |