Example sentences of "to [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their new king , Philip IV , is devoting all his energies and resources to building up alliances in Europe . |
| 2 | The Church has not always recognised their rights to spiritual growth nor the contribution that they can make to building up the body of Christ . |
| 3 | He had provided merely skimpy further details of the first two pilots , dedicating his greatest effort to building up a detailed profile of Mikhail Vologsky . |
| 4 | DAVEY Boy Smith left his 14-year-old schoolfriends to chase girls while he dedicated himself to building up his body in the gym . |
| 5 | The Company devoted itself to building up a substantial trade in pepper which , while not as valuable as the most expensive products of the Spice Islands like nutmeg and cloves , still commanded a very steady market in Europe . |
| 6 | She asked a waiter for another pot , and settled down to catching up with the story of Swan 's life . |
| 7 | Try to discipline yourself to using up leftovers . |
| 8 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
| 9 | De La Rousselière , newly promoted lieut. -colonel , was set to drawing up a plan of attack . |
| 10 | She advises her clients to involve the users in producing a list of the problems they are expecting an accounting system to solve , in addition to drawing up the more traditional features ‘ hit-list ’ . |
| 11 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 12 | " The Council heard a preliminary report from the Commission following talks with the Soviet government … with a view to drawing up proposals on short-term credit and longer-term support to be given to structural reforms . " |
| 13 | Its work ranges from soil analysis to Civil Engineering firms , to drawing up green plans for Local Authorities . |
| 14 | Naturally , this supplied local bubble-brains with material for a whole week of wild rumour and exaggeration : believe me , when it comes to whipping up moralistic hysteria about something they knock full all about , daft nationalists are hard to beat . |
| 15 | The university appointed a new appeal committee with a view to speeding up the hearing . |
| 16 | However , they are now hitting physical limits to increasing computer performance and if this impressive progress is to be continued new approaches to speeding up computer performance will need to be developed . |
| 17 | My grandfather had died early , so she was used to bringing up a family on her own . |
| 18 | Apart from his emotional objection to bringing up a child which was not their own , there was another consideration , one which he hoped to keep from his wife . |
| 19 | Brenda , however , is used to bringing up her three daughters alone for months at a time . |
| 20 | You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’ |
| 21 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 22 | It 's different having a child of your own to bringing up your brothers . |
| 23 | She has devoted much of her time to bringing up three children and is the only person to classify herselfas a housewife in her reply . |
| 24 | It has long been recognised that women who devote years of their lives to bringing up children lose out in the pension stakes . |
| 25 | Bilijana , 26 , was looking forward to bringing up a family in their comfortable Sarajevo home . |
| 26 | And , free from the stresses of having to clean in all those awkward corners and relaxed in the knowledge that because the Apex is so easy to clean , you will be able to devote all your energies to cooking up something really delicious . |
| 27 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 28 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 29 | Except for a sports day once a year , their activities were limited to parading up and down . |
| 30 | However , it is recommended that the following are contacted prior to planning/setting up translation facilities : |