Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 2 | However , he has said : ‘ If social services want to keep some kind of data about the additional services which may not immediately be necessary , I do n't think the process is going to open them up to a legal threat . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll have to feed you up with a good meal before you go , ’ said Sister Margaret . |
| 4 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 5 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 6 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 8 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 9 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 10 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 11 | He intended to mark it up for a hundred . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 13 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 14 | The better nurserymen pride themselves on their packing , so much so that they often advise you to leave the plants in the packing when planting is delayed , and to lay them up in a cool garage or shed . |
| 15 | Now might be the time to follow it up with a few troop directions in fluent French . |