Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Setting up a ‘ hearth ’ corresponds to setting up a home . |
| 2 | Daytime activity concentrates on soaking up the sun by the pool and contemplating at leisure which of Ten Bel 's many activities to try next . |
| 3 | There is also the misconception that the speed with which a room is heated to a set temperature increases by turning up a room or radiator thermostat . |
| 4 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 5 | But in the Wessex resort of Weston-super-Mare , where two million visitors take their holiday each year , blue flags are replacing the black marks as the water company sets about cleaning up the beaches , with help from C&P . |
| 6 | Comrade Springer tries to liven up the party |
| 7 | This account of normalisation focuses on opening up a range of life-style opportunities which are available to the rest of the population but which have tended to be closed to people with learning difficulties . |
| 8 | On our descent we began by setting up our own abseils but quickly accepted an offer from the Germans to share abseils , taking turns at setting up the anchor points . |
| 9 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 10 | IBM Corp 's quest for a new chief executive appears to be narrowing , but you pays your money and you takes your choice when it comes to drawing up a list of front-runners — US PC Week reckons that the company will go for a chairman from outside and suggests Paul Stern and Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson as the front-runners , with an internal chief executive , putting its money on Ellen Hancock and Bernard Puckett , but the Reuter shortlist is quite different , and has Lawrence Bossidy , chairman of Allied-Signal Corp out front , saying he has visited Armonk at least three or four times , Paul Stern is in there again , and John Sculley is back in the picture , with one source quoted as saying ‘ The rumour is that Sculley is acting quite disinterested , but his travel plans include going to the East Coast quite a bit ; ’ Reuter 's other possible contender is Michael Armstrong , who left only last year . |
| 11 | But like her own mother and her grandmother before her , when it comes to stocking up the food cupboard for her baby Lisa relies on a name she can trust . |
| 12 | When it comes to cleaning up the environment , it is said that ‘ the polluter pays ’ … but who is the polluter ? |