Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 2 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 3 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 4 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |
| 5 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 6 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 7 | ‘ They are trying to sling mud at me to cover up the defeat by Peru , ’ he said , rising to his own defence and pointing a brave if belated finger back at the SFA . |
| 8 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 9 | A little background knowledge will make you more confident and help you to draw up a list of really relevant questions . |
| 10 | I will wish you to draw up a deed of gift in Mr Beckenham 's favour when once probate is granted , if you please . ’ |
| 11 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 12 | The function keys allow you to call up a variety of viewpoints but , despite this , it was sometimes hard to tell what was going on . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's hope he does n't want you to hobble up the aisle with a leg in plaster . ’ |
| 14 | Clear cross-references , supplemented by a thorough index , allow you to follow up a line of enquiry and to move easily from the text to the line drawings , maps and colour plates — each chosen to represent a particular design or type of rug typical of those currently available — offering instant visual access to the information you need . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like me to fix up an audience with the King here ? |
| 20 | Despite its limitations , the project has done something to open up the question of study skills , develop inservice structures and practices , create a core of schools where good practice has been established and from which it might be disseminated , and has clearly improved secondary school library provision through ( amongst other things ) the quality of book selection . |
| 21 | So you tried then to do something to use up the rest of the developer . |
| 22 | Ought we to put up an exhibition in the local library , or outside the CEO 's office ? ’ |
| 23 | For many it was something to break up the monotony of camp-life . |
| 24 | Victoria was not one to yield up the authority of the Crown too readily and continued throughout her reign to assert it on occasion , such as objecting to the appointment of the nominee of a Prime Minister to a Ministry where she found him personally objectionable . |
| 25 | That was something to make up the quarter of your shift . |
| 26 | Arithmetic not only took my mind off the leg , but also spurred me to keep up a pace of four miles an hour . |
| 27 | This permits them to build up a picture of how the weather is changing virtually anywhere on Earth . |
| 28 | Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water . |
| 29 | With the withering of their grasslands , the nomads of the Sahara were forced to descend into the narrow jungle of the Nile valley , there to take up the toil of agriculture . |
| 30 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |