Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should all be out to clean up the game . |
| 2 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 3 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 4 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |
| 5 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 6 | The trick is simply to add up the numbers . |
| 7 | A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round . |
| 8 | There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving . |
| 9 | Boyd Stych , looking strangely civilized in a dark business suit and neatly clipped beard , was informed by his wife , when he came home , that the Advent was sending a photographer and a reporter to see him this evening and he was not to litter up the lounge — she 'd just tidied it . |
| 10 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 11 | ‘ Had it not gone , I was about to give up the idea of being a producer in my own right . ’ |
| 12 | He yelled abuse at a dog that was about to turn up the garden path , doing it more for form 's sake than because he disliked dogs , and then Jim opened the door and unfortunately called the animal inside . |
| 13 | Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ? |