Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 2 | He was a gentle , kindly old man ( a tailor by trade ) who was happy to leave his wife in complete charge of bringing up the kids in her own way . |
| 3 | It might also instigate a system of writing up the objective in large letters for all to see . |
| 4 | Yet we can not have a cut because interest rates are now set , not according to the needs of our domestic economy , but for the sole purpose of propping up the pound in its ERM band , thus prolonging the recession . |
| 5 | On Jan. 10 Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia accused the Soviet government of stirring up the revolt in South Ossetia to provide an excuse to impose presidential rule on the whole of Georgia . |
| 6 | The government , which controls around 85 per cent of the country , has turned to logging as a way of making up the shortfall in revenue resulting from the end of Soviet aid , and its loss of the Palinn gem mines in western Cambodia to Khmer Rouge forces . |
| 7 | She dreamed of floating up the aisle in frothy white , to stand beside a dark-suited figure . |
| 8 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 9 | ‘ Independently of climbing over rocks and fallen stumps of trees , the sportsman has to creep and crawl beneath and among the branches with the utmost caution , taking care only to advance when the bird 's attention is occupied in singing , or in scratching up the leaves in search of food ; to watch its actions it is necessary to remain perfectly motionless , not venturing to move even in the slightest degree , or it vanishes from sight as if by magic … |
| 10 | We could possibly arrange sub-contractors if anyone was interested in taking up the job in a given area . |
| 11 | And I should say to the general assembly that the Board 's four homes for people with senile dementia are differently funded and any deficits there are made up by grants from health boards and social work departments which are prohibited from making up the deficit in eventide care . |
| 12 | It then had the good fortune of lengthy bureaucratic delays in setting up the DTB in Frankfurt , which enabled LIFFE to establish a very liquid Bund contract market . |
| 13 | In Stage 3 , there is an expectation that the DCSLs will be involved in following up the project in their schools . |
| 14 | Have Severn Trent got on the bandwagon yet , for tidying up the water in Brussels . |
| 15 | The facilities start with a remote switch socket for connecting the optional FC6 foot controller , offering remote switching without tying up the MIDI in socket ( I tried the FC6 but found it more suited to a keyboard player , so would recommend a standard MIDI switching pedal ) . |
| 16 | Here are some ideas for following up the advice in How to be a ghost … |
| 17 | Fortunately , assuming that your model is a collective pitch type , it is possible to reduce the chances of this happening in the early stages by setting up the model in a suitable manner . |