Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 2 | How can a twenty-two-year-old mother with three small children , whose stock of crockery consists of three cups and four plates , find the economic or emotional hardware to plug up the six-inch hole around the pipe running from her sink to an outside drain , or similar holes round all the pipes in her kitchen ? |
| 3 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 4 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 5 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 6 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 7 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 8 | According to Santiago O ate , attorney-general for environmental protection , the government has already invested $400 million in a programme to clean up the industrial zone on the US border , home to many of the so-called maquiladora industries , which locate there to take advantage of Mexico 's relatively lax pollution regulations . |
| 9 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 10 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 11 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 12 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European club disaster . |
| 13 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European disaster . |
| 14 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 15 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 16 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 17 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 18 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 19 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 20 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |
| 21 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 22 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 23 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 24 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 25 | In the grey morning light , Clare , still in her nightgown , stooped to pick up the little bottle of sleeping pills from the floor . |
| 26 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 27 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 28 | Barbara looked up as she dragged Jimmy to one side , and saw Duvall stoop to pick up the broken neck of the whisky bottle that she had dropped . |
| 29 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 30 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |