Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around a quarter of the managers were unemployed , he said , and the parents of the boys would have to try and make up the increase . |
| 2 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 3 | to try and set up a scout group |
| 4 | He was a chemist himself , or a physicist , working on similar sorts of problems , and I wrote to him and said was he interested in looking at one of my molecules , and he wrote back and said he was very interested because it was , in fact , as I 'd thought , a rather intriguing next step in our understanding and we got together with the Canadian group in Ottowa to try and set up a programme for observing these particular types of molecule in interstellar space . |
| 5 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 6 | However , he was mindful of his limitations and , after some time , he was able to arrange for a ‘ godly , diligent physician ’ to come and set up a practice in the town to relieve him of this burden . |
| 7 | We have a 24-hour claims helpline ; breakdown assistance — if you have an accident , a tow-truck to come and pick up the car ; and much better documentation . ’ |
| 8 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 9 | On his way to his tent , he fell in with a captain who told him gloomily that three men had individually been sent in to find and blow up the magazine , and all had presumably died . |
| 10 | Although automatic edit controllers can be included in the set-up to simplify and speed up the process , the basic essentials are the same whether the job is done automatically or manually . |
| 11 | Lorrimer or one of the Police Liaison Officers were the only people authorised to lock and open up the building . |
| 12 | Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company . |
| 13 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 14 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |
| 15 | From March 1743 he began to preach and built up a network of religious societies in Derbyshire , Cheshire , and south-east Lancashire , which soon became part of the Methodist organization led by John Wesley [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | When you do not bend your knees then the back muscles have to support and pick up the weight of your torso , arms and head ( 70 per cent of your body weight ) , as well as the object you are carrying . |
| 17 | The adventurers have to head for the hill , but as they do it appears that the grey trees begin to grow and spread up the hillside . |
| 18 | Briefly , this meant the ability to ‘ take his work and leave it ’ : to start and finish the ploughing ; that is , to pen and shut up a furrow and leave every stetch , or parcel of furrows , straight and level and without a wrinkle to mar the whole length of it . |
| 19 | I had to learn how to cast and wire up a battery . |
| 20 | In the face of sustained congressional hostility to his August 1991 proposals , which had envisaged a total of 44 constitutional reforms to liberalize and open up the economy and reform fiscal policy [ see p. 38388 ] , Collor offered on Oct. 4 a revised set of proposals , involving only 13 amendments to eight articles . |
| 21 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 22 | The northern part is also worth visiting though , and there are several excellent areas to rest and soak up the sun and the atmosphere . |
| 23 | As part of this strategy , senior managers are using FDC to improve and speed up the production of monthly reports . |
| 24 | The artist would reproduce that grid onto a studio canvas in a proportionately larger scale , using it as a sequence of reference points by which to plot and paint up the landscape configuration exactly to the Design drawing . |
| 25 | At a meeting on Nov. 30-Dec. 1 , EC Immigration Ministers , meeting in the context of the Trevi Group , agreed on measures to co-ordinate and speed up the processing of asylum seekers ' applications . |