Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] up a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACT can also generate additional objects to create customised products — the group will ‘ effectively make up a bespoke product , assemble a bespoke suit to fit each client ’ . |
| 2 | I remember the disgraceful way she allowed you to be neglected when you had flu , only bringing up a water biscuit or two when she deigned to climb the stairs ! |
| 3 | One can not suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold . |
| 4 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 5 | French plastic manufacturers and bottle suppliers have joined together to set up a recycling company , " Valorplast " , which intends to recycle around 1 billion plastic bottles by the year 1996 . |
| 6 | More orthodox critics feared that he was only stoking up a consumer boom which would reap the whirlwind in a vast price inflation . |
| 7 | In many companies the normal management accounting system will only pick up a currency exposure when the sales entry has been made and by that time adverse currency fluctuations could have eroded or wiped out the profit margin . |
| 8 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 9 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 10 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 11 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 12 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 13 | Discussions on economic and monetary union were further advanced and the Commission had already drawn up a draft treaty . |
| 14 | Parents themselves thereupon set up a pressure group of their own ( Mother Care for Children in Hospital , now the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital ; which , with all the enthusiasm of maternal solicitude that has the acknowledged right on its side , and with the help of a sympathetic press , is gradually altering the atmosphere of children 's hospital care . |
| 15 | ‘ They might not set up a road block , ’ said Jean , biting her lip . |
| 16 | And for regular savings we can easily set up a standing order . |
| 17 | The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society offers help for families who have lost babies and has just set up a Darlington branch . |
| 18 | De Fazio denied that USL has already set up a UST subsidiary in Australia , saying that ‘ we 've been negotiating , but nothing is finalised . ’ |
| 19 | You have already set up a LIFESPAN Process VMS account ( Section 1.2.2 ) ; the only decision you need to make now is whether to run all LIFESPAN Processes on the same UIC , or to have separate UICs for each process . |
| 20 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 21 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 22 | FRS 2 argues that not setting up a debit balance ‘ would obscure the comparison between the assets and liabilities attributable to the minority interest and those attributable to group interests both during the period when the accumulated losses accrue and afterwards , if the losses are then made good by later profits ’ ( para 81 ) . |
| 23 | You can turn down a fire hose to water a garden , but you can not turn up a garden hose sufficiently to tackle a fire . |
| 24 | Alternatively , the pronoun problem may be avoided by recasting a sentence ( for example , ‘ pick up baby when he cries ’ might become ‘ always pick up a crying baby ’ ) or by pluralising ( ‘ pick up babies when they cry ’ ) . |
| 25 | The 26-strong team has quickly set up an operating theatre , resuscitation area , X-ray department and a ward in two rooms in the British base a former school at Vitez . |
| 26 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 27 | No one has ever put up a UFO welcome message , ’ he said . |
| 28 | A lady friend of mine , working in an aircraft factory , tells me she once picked up a wage packet of £40 a week . |
| 29 | Coyle also picked up a Guinness Player of the Month award from the Northern Ireland Football Writers . |
| 30 | Rangers responded with John Morrow and Trevor Steven linking up to set up a shooting chance for Gary Stevens but the fullback 's 20 yard effort flew over the top . |