Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very small windows are usually better just left , and given a plant , vase of flowers or object to cheer up the sill . |
| 2 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 3 | They are doing work which every compositor is called upon to do at some time or another , that is plain composition , " but he added that the men do " the many operations that go to make up the comp 's calling " . |
| 4 | Which system we would have to decide , who draws up the list er would the list be a U K one , a regional one or would it be one in the separate countries that go to make up the U K. A huge amount of discussion there , not a chance missed at all , er he wanted a separate seat for for Cornwall . |
| 5 | The term hardware refers to the electronic and electromechanical bits and pieces that go to make up the machine . |
| 6 | Latent inhibition training can be expected , therefore , to establish a network of associations among the component parts that go to make up the stimulus . |
| 7 | Of all the elements that go to make up the accident causation system , the one that has received the least attention in residential areas is the design of the road network itself . |
| 8 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 9 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 10 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 11 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 12 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 13 | I think you need to look again at the bit I 've marked above where I could n't understand it , and try to clear up the problem . |
| 14 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 15 | Joanna went on , ‘ Whatever happens , I 'm going to stay with you and help to build up the practice till it 's a going concern . |
| 16 | The traditional explanation is that the stripes act as camouflage and help to break up the shape of the animal , concealing its body from the eyes of hungry predators . |
| 17 | But stop to add up the value of your house , car , shares , insurance policies — the total is probably more than you realised . |