Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a collection of routine thoughts and physical distractions are useful for filling up the spaces created by the avoidance . |
| 2 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 3 | Who knows how many quarrels , false accusations , unnecessary dismissals , how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler 's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan ? |
| 4 | In 1985 , when the first XT compatible machines made by other manufacturers appeared on the market , some had the bright idea of speeding up the clock to make the machine faster . |
| 5 | The General Medical Council is looking at ways of tightening up the rules to stop bogus doctors working and European laws will help . ’ |
| 6 | The discovery of the impossibility of fleeing thus comes after the mental process of sizing up the situation denoted by saw , and this calls for the use of to . |
| 7 | BNF is currently the world 's only supplier of fuel for AGRs , and Scottish Nuclear , which is expected to make profits of around £28 million this year from supplying electricity to ScottishPower and Scottish Hydro-Electric , is considering putting up the money to build the necessary fuel production facilities if its latest move comes to anything . |
| 8 | Okay , I will then , outside this meeting , take on this task of setting up the forms view the output from all this gathering and decide what , whether we can make a sensible rationing from some of the forms . |
| 9 | The Treasury also opposed contributory pensions , objecting to the cost of setting up the machinery to collect contributions , to keep the necessary records and to make payments , in addition to the cost of paying pensions to those who were already aged and could make no contribution . |
| 10 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 11 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 12 | Such corruption has played some part in building up the funds held in international bank accounts or other forms of investment by African citizens , recently estimated to total $20 billion between 1974 and 1985 . |
| 13 | Before picking up the phone to place a brief , it is important to consider the following : |
| 14 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 15 | Before moving up the screen to print the next four sections , manually move the continuous stationery in the printer to the start of a new page , otherwise , the next section printed will join with this one . |
| 16 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 17 | Colugos have no problems in making up the height lost when gliding . |
| 18 | A series of mechanical difficulties in setting up the car caused further problems and on Friday he had constant braking problems ; an experiment on Saturday did little to change matters for the better — Emerson finished practice in sixth place . |
| 19 | Much of the work involved in setting up the business has been research into the complex safety requirements . |
| 20 | The European Parliament will not be slow in following up the demands put to the summit by Mr Enrique Baron , the Parliament 's president , for it to be given sweeping new powers by the inter-governmental conference next year . |
| 21 | If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’ |
| 22 | And the brother of another , Richard McIlkenny , said : ‘ It is a whitewash aimed at covering up the mistakes made by police in convicting six innocent men . ’ |
| 23 | I am sure we are all indebted to the Scottish executive of the Labour Party for clearing up the confusion surrounding its policy on water privatisation after the speech by Labour leader John Smith and the remarks by shadow Scottish Secretary Tom Clarke . |
| 24 | Thirty were to be converted into gun-sloops , by shoring up the bows to accommodate a 24-pounder [ 11-kg gun ] … |
| 25 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |
| 26 | The probability that the particle , say , passes through some particular point is found by adding up the waves associated with every possible history that passes through that point . |
| 27 | The probability of the particle traveling from A to B is given by adding up the numbers associated with all the paths that take the particle from A to B. For most paths , the number associated with the path will nearly cancel out the numbers from paths that are close by . |
| 28 | Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want . |