Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 2 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 3 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 4 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 5 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 6 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 7 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 8 | To complete the feeling that we had dreamed up the whole of this year 's Wimbledon , Andre Agassi took the men 's title with a back court display that made a mockery of the only seed that really counts there — the grass seed . |
| 9 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 10 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 11 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 12 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 13 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 14 | The paper indignantly rejected charges that it had set up the case which had , it seemed then , consigned Jagger and Richard to jail , but outrage at the sentences had touched liberal consciences , and galvanized youth inhabiting that grey area between music and social protest . |
| 15 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 16 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 17 | The government had already been damaged when on July 12 a judge ruled that the Army Commander-in-Chief and former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra could face court martial on charges that he had covered up the murder of a 16-year-old youth by his bodyguards in October 1990 . |
| 18 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 19 | He was sorry that he had brought up the subject and hastily departed for his shower , shouting that he would tell her while he was dressing . |
| 20 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 21 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 22 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 23 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 24 | If I 've set up the play that leads to goals , that 's OK by me . ’ |
| 25 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 26 | She had put an old cardigan over the top , and she 'd rolled up the sleeves and she was shaking that bucket . |
| 27 | And she had kept up the pretence in the air-conditioned hotel and on the pool terrace , drinking mint tea to get the feel of the place , though she could n't stand the stuff really , and never knew what to do with the sprigs of mint . |
| 28 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 29 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 30 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |