Example sentences of "of [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diligence of cheering up . |
| 2 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 3 | A bit of cheering up . |
| 4 | I just hope people sort of sit up and take notice of it . |
| 5 | To most animals , the clarity of each image is at least as important as the number per second , and many have found ways of sharpening up the picture . |
| 6 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 7 | It sort of doubled up , or summat like that , so she crossed them all out and changed them . |
| 8 | This is a very tasty way of using up any left-overs after a meal of roast lamb . |
| 9 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 10 | Equally you could follow the idea of a sample and knit each diamond in a different colour — a good way of using up those oddments ! |
| 11 | He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing . |
| 12 | In marine manufacturing one has the sense of a kind of using up of existing facilities and skills without much new investment , although the Tyne does have R and D capacity in this sector . |
| 13 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |
| 14 | It 's a , it 's a flow rate , it 's rate of using up electricity , watts . |
| 15 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 16 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 17 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 18 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 19 | It is not a question , he wrote , of drawing up an inventory of all that is required , because that suggests that one can know exactly what will be required . |
| 20 | Sir Adrian seems unhappy with the idea of drawing up a vast catalogue of top management attributes and is more inclined to the view that being a good senior executive is something gleaned from hard experience . |
| 21 | The cost of drawing up plans will depend on where you go , but this is one occasion where you can afford to choose the cheapest . |
| 22 | In something of an afterthought the Irish News of 15 August 1966 recorded that ‘ a discussion took place on the desirability of holding a convention on civil rights for the purpose of drawing up a civil rights chart ’ . |
| 23 | Who knows how many quarrels , false accusations , unnecessary dismissals , how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler 's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan ? |
| 24 | The job of drawing up the artwork is made considerably easier by using a light-box , especially when dealing with more complex designs involving integrated circuits . |
| 25 | ‘ We are in the process of drawing up the seedings and groupings of the various qualifying rounds , ’ said tournament director Brian Skirrow . |
| 26 | Guinness Mahon , in conjunction with solicitors Jacques and Lewis , had the responsibility of drawing up the document , a complicated matter strewn with legal pitfalls . |
| 27 | A major temptation is that of drawing up — either explicitly or implicitly — a balance sheet of war . |
| 28 | It seems likely , therefore , that in the process of drawing up the Feoda , as clerks and local lords decided under which heading most fief-holders should appear , they helped to crystallize the castellanies . |
| 29 | Preparations also include two consultations for church leaders and communicators and for technicians which will take place in 1993 with the aim of drawing up clear guidelines for the agency . |
| 30 | Royal Ascot race week loomed and she was in the process of drawing up a guest list for the traditional house party at Windsor Castle . |