Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PA are building up a definitive database of companies and contacts interested in ESPRIT CIME . |
| 2 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 3 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 4 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 5 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 6 | MOTORISTS in the North-East are snapping up a new device in the battle to beat car crime . |
| 7 | Customers are snapping up the top quality magazine with its wonderful photography and editorial . |
| 8 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 9 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 10 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 11 | On the plus side , the arrival of VAT on domestic supplies should encourage people to think about saving energy in the home , thereby reducing the demand on coal , oil and gas and , therefore , cutting emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO ) which are pushing up the global temperature . |
| 12 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 13 | THE MEN 'S MOVEMENT NEEDS MORE THRUST , MORE GRASP , IF WE 'RE TO WHIP UP A STIFF FRONT TO MEET THE FEMINIST POSITION AND LAY THE GHOST OF LIMP WET LIBERALISM ! |
| 14 | Horse it up well and proper when you 're gathering up the damned folk . |
| 15 | In fact er just before I retired they were saying , you know , my job 's obsolete and that , and then and says oh we 're opening up a big depot in Japan . |
| 16 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 17 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 18 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 19 | Come on , now , quickly , you 're holding up the whole party . ’ |
| 20 | A Morrissey fan said : ‘ By sending the original tickets you 're giving up the only proof you ever had of having bought them , which means they can just ignore you . |
| 21 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree about the other address , ’ he bluffed . |
| 23 | You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're barking up the wrong tree . |
| 25 | You know they 're putting up the electric lines |
| 26 | For the future of course , we have now erm negotiated with Eurofighter a rather better arrangement , they 're setting up a joint team , they 're trying to do all the work in one place and they really are now making a lot of progress . |
| 27 | In fact I tuned out altogether for at least a week , while John checked into the hotel and ran around town shuffling papers and permits and palmgrease and all the other shit you deal in when you 're firming up a fresh identity . |
| 28 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 29 | Some of the villages on the edge of the Baronnies look all too spruce , as if the locals had by now given way completely to immigrants wealthier than themselves , who are buying up the old houses and adding new , sometimes crassly intrusive ones . |
| 30 | They are screwing up the whole economy , not just housing . |