Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up [art] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constantly turning up the pressure on suppliers to do even better makes doing business with carmakers tough ( see box ) . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |
| 3 | I think I 've just sewn up a deal on a new account . ’ |
| 4 | Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information . |
| 5 | Please note that : YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP THE REPAYMENTS ON A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT . |
| 6 | A combined force of commandos got there just in time and blew the base to smithereens , finally blowing up the overhang on top of the smoking remains . |
| 7 | In October 1966 , however , one year after the decision not to take up the option on the book , David V. Picker at UA bought the movie rights . |
| 8 | Sir Michael Angus made it a double whammy for Unilever as the outgoing plc chairman , soon to take up the cudgels on behalf of the CBI , entered the International Marketing Hall of Fame . |
| 9 | ( d ) Taking money from a customer and not ringing up the price on the till : Monaghan [ 1979 ] Crim LR 673 ( CA ) . |
| 10 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 11 | Katz also pushed up the bidding on a finely carved and drilled colossal marble bust of Lucius Verus ( lot 84 ) , attributed during the viewing to Carlo Albacini , which sold for £45,000 ( $72,000 , est. £8,000–10,000 ) . |
| 12 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 13 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 14 | Because the Project is now stepping up a gear on all fronts , the society need to reorganise responsibilities to cope with the increased workload . |
| 15 | An STC spokesman explained that the £1.7m sale was made by Mr Walsh to escape the rising cost of the loan he took out to pick up an option on 1 million STC shares in February . |
| 16 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 17 | They ca n't even tear up the hotels on this tour because they 're sleeping on the tour bus . |
| 18 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 19 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 21 | At least that will be the attitude of the minister who has scrabbled around ( perhaps even ringing up a colleague on the Saturday night ) in a desperate search for that elusive thing , the good children 's address . |
| 22 | Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope . |
| 23 | Everyone wished to be buried there , or at least to set up a cenotaph on hallowed ground . |
| 24 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll be in touch so that we can arrange for C.W. to meet your men before Mobuto arrives tonight , ’ Kolchinsky said then picked up the transmitter on the desk and activated the door . |
| 26 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |