Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC Radio 2 presenter Ed Stewart joined volunteers at Studland beach , near Poole , Dorset , for the operation to clear up litter from the Bank Holiday . |
| 2 | It is one thing , though no doubt foolish , for the president to hold up air traffic while he gets a haircut from a high-priced snipper on the tarmac of Los Angeles airport . |
| 3 | Arrangements were made for the deceased to take up residence in a residential home for the elderly known as Samuel Saye House , owned and managed by a Mr. and Mrs. Tinker . |
| 4 | The contra cause was fired by reverence , both among the rebel leaders and their American sponsors , for democracy in its raw form , not far from anarchy : for freedom of action and impulse , for the right to take up arms and set up companies , but not for the constraints of legislatures or even , much , for the damp blanket of different opinions . |
| 5 | With Alex James as the pivot picking up clearances from defence and passing immediately to the front-runners , Arsenal could have the ball in their opponents ' net only seconds after being packed in their own goal area . |
| 6 | There was nothing capricious about Mendoros ' choice of Britain as the place to set up shop . |
| 7 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |
| 8 | Sue : Finally , is there any thing you can tell us about the Business Start Up Scheme and the TEC Challenge ? |
| 9 | Messrs Rudd and McGowan motored through the recession snapping up bargains and transformed Williams Holdings into a FTSE 100 company . |
| 10 | One is somebody 's walking through the door to pick up information |
| 11 | From June onward warming through the ice set up circulation currents which gradually raised temperatures to a uniform 4°C throughout the water column ( Rigler , 1974 ) . |
| 12 | Bishop Auckland friers grumbled in 1936 that unskilled rivals were coming off the dole to set up shop . |
| 13 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | Britain 's packaging industry has been given until the end of the year to draw up plans for recycling 50-75 per cent of all packaging waste by the year 2000 . |
| 15 | The UFF vowed at the start of the year to step up attacks and warned : You ai n't seen nothing yet . ’ |
| 16 | It is misleading , therefore , of the Government to hold up Sweden as a model for its madcap rail privatisation plans . |
| 17 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 18 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 19 | Thoughts of the office conjured up memories of Naylor Massingham — she was very worried about him . |
| 20 | The jerk of the rubber punched up Trent 's arm and into the right side of his chest . |
| 21 | the rest of the crowd taking up stances |
| 22 | ‘ During one of those desperate days when we were being attacked , I remember there was an official rescue ship which used to trail behind the convoy to pick up survivors from torpedoed ships . |
| 23 | After the Wall Street crash of 1929 , with the slump forcing up tariff barriers around the world , Ramsay Macdonald 's Second Labour Government clung dogmatically to Treasury orthodoxy and the defence of free trade . |
| 24 | He has both management ( M ) and educational ( E ) tasks including the following : M — identify members of the group M organize regular meetings M — consult with the group to draw up timetable M — organize observations in classroom E — collate the observations E — consult with group in drawing inferences from observation data E — take responsibility for decision on final changes M — liaise with publishers E — organize and possibly write documentation of new material M — organize editing and rewriting of material E — assume major role in the retrospective evaluation of the unit . |
| 25 | Downing Street officials work late into the night drawing up plans to tell the Commons , the nation and the world that Charles and Diana can no longer bear to live together . |
| 26 | She said school buses come into the village to pick up pupils after parents expressed fears for their safety waiting on the A67 . |
| 27 | A mini-buying stampede pushed the leading FT-SE 100 Index to 2741.8 , a jump of 32.2 points as investors piled into the market to snap up bargains . |
| 28 | It was not a directly elected body , though it was given the right under the Treaty to draw up proposals for direct elections . |
| 29 | Under the legislation setting up hospital trusts , the National Health Service and Community Care Act , the Secretary of State has discretion to decide which hospitals have sufficient teaching and research functions to merit university representation . |
| 30 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |