Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1988 Act allows open enrolment , so that schools are forced to accept children up to the limit of their capacity . |
| 2 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 3 | He says there ai n't nothing else next and er so er I stood there and I said this , kind of like this I 've got ta do something so er I went er to pick sommat up down the back but before that he said , here you are , he says I put these ready all you got ta do is put the screws in those locks you know , like . |
| 4 | Er they , there were seasons for all these things and then erm balls , we used to used to play balls up against the walls . |
| 5 | Owen could not tell whether this actually was the demonstration , conveniently moved in view of the circumstances , or whether Osman meant to whip things up to the point when the crowd would storm the barricade . |
| 6 | The recognition by IBM Corp that Microsoft Corp products are not going to go away and that it ca n't build its own personal computer world solely on OS/2 — which has led the company to decide to put NT up on the PowerPC and to do a DB2/NT version of its personal computer database is to culminate in a meeting between new IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner and Microsoft chief Bill Gates later this month to discuss areas of mutual interest , the Wall Street Journal says . |
| 7 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 8 | Pupils must not be used as a means to keep teachers up to the mark . |
| 9 | Someone , after all , has to be around to keep Microsoft up to the mark . |
| 10 | I had n't the remotest idea , but I followed the little rails which were used by the tiny railway to carry food up to the dining rooms … |
| 11 | The moon scudded across a gap in the clouds again , just as Guy reached down to haul Isabel up into the saddle before him . |
| 12 | — helping to get clients up in the morning |
| 13 | it can still take some time on occasions to start , presumably to get petrol up into the carburettor . |
| 14 | Existing users could apply for " licences of right " , which permitted them to take quantities up to the maximum that had been abstracted previously . |
| 15 | The Purchaser will therefore wish to be able to recover damages up to the amount of any sums paid ( or payable ) to creditors , as well any cash paid to the Vendor if there are major warranty claims . |
| 16 | An electrically or tractor-belt-driven fan is used to blow air up through the bales or loose hay , which can be baled and carted quite green and at least a day sooner than normal hay . |
| 17 | Information technology sales doubled to £92million as a result of the CASE takeover , though it is taking time to bring profitability up to the levels elsewhere in the group . |