Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 2 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 3 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 4 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 5 | It is this increase in oxygen that provides the extra fuel to burn up the food in our internal fire . |
| 6 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 7 | ‘ Very well ! ’ sighed Isambard , and reached a hand to take up the candle in its iron holder from the rocky ledge of the wall . |
| 8 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 9 | Japanese officials plead that they do not have the power to carve up the market in this way . |
| 10 | The aim of the meeting will be to find out whether there is enough interest to set up the venture in Clwyd . |