Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter .
2 You should write up the notes immediately after the call before the memory of the call fades ( see figure 7 )
3 I must fill up the list though because there 's a lot of things coming up .
4 ( We 'll mop up the blood afterwards ) .
5 I 'll top up the stove here while you 're in the kitchen . ’
6 It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off .
7 As soon as we get there , I 'll start up the motors again . ’
8 It would not would it , so leave it in position and if you need to put another pad over the top , then do that , more pressure and a bigger pad , never take the original one off , okay , leave it on otherwise you 'll open up the wound again and you 'll have all that problem over again , so pad , pressure and elevate , what if it do n't work ?
9 This procedure , carried out each generation , could tie up the land indefinitely .
10 All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here .
11 In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore .
12 If we had anyone who could put up the money then we 'd buy our own and resell it at the end . ’
13 At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly .
14 I shall take up the matter more fully later in my remarks .
15 Mr Mallard said he hoped their claim would open up the matter once more .
16 ‘ I hope the chemist will send up the things tonight , ’ Breeze said , to change the subject .
17 They hope this will clear up the problem here and elsewhere , for good .
18 The judge will sum up the evidence tomorrow before asking the jury to consider a verdict .
19 If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers .
20 I am going to send you back to the Dark Realm of that other Ireland , and we will seal up the Gateways so that you and your creatures and your Lords of Evil will never be a threat to us again .
21 So , let's wrap up the day now .
22 Great coldness and chills run up and down the back ; pains can go up the back too .
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