Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems . |
| 2 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 3 | Lawton was struggling to get out of his pack the receiver that would pick up the radio signals from the miniature transceiver Forster said was attached to his slayer . |
| 4 | In a move that will prop up the market for contemporary Quebecois art , and at the same time foster the province 's quest to reinforce its distinct cultural identity , the government of Quebec has guaranteed a C$5.4 million ( £2.25 million ; $4.5 million ) bank loan on behalf of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal , enabling that institution to purchase en bloc 1,300 works ninety percent contemporary Quebecois amassed by the bankrupt engineering firm Lavalin Inc . |
| 5 | The US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has committed itself to reforms that will speed up the approval of drugs and reduce development costs . |
| 6 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 7 | He called them spectaculars and would set up the storyline , do the lyrics and librettos with J. J. Wood and co-write the music with Cuthbert Clarke . |
| 8 | As far as William was concerned , seizing the English throne was just one move in his struggle to resist the growing power of France that had already lasted twenty years and would take up the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 9 | The infusion of cash to the Antarctic should be worth A$50 to 80 million over the next four to five years and will open up the continent to direct flights from Australia . |
| 10 | In keeping with our policy of a sustained level of capital expenditure irrespective of industry cycles , we will be investing further in latest generation hardware and will speed up the introduction of new field software . |