Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 2 | It is also the place for those who want to soak up the sun on their hotel terraces or at the Lido , a huge pool so close to the sea that waves frequently wash into it . |
| 3 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 4 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
| 5 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 6 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 7 | A CRACKDOWN has been launched on Liverpool council tenants who refuse to cough up the rent in a bid to reduce £18.7m arrears . |