Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun] on the " in BNC.

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1 After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’
2 We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out .
3 But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people .
4 The need for the Bill , which will tidy up the law on the legality of traffic-calming measures , is easy to see throughout the country .
5 " He would write up the result on the file later .
6 I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan .
7 And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people .
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