Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When you have reached the end of your questions and/or the time allotted and the candidate has no further questions you must take the initiative to wind up the interview . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Mixed with the need to tidy up the garden was a desire to show her neighbours her new purple , slim pants and striped purple and yellow jacket . |
| 34 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 35 | Sometime before the guests were due to arrive , Mark went down to the cellar to bring up the wine . |
| 36 | I would then pitch my tent and have the night to weigh up the situation . |
| 37 | Gaunt had used the strength of his position as the representative of the king to break up the opposition and to reassert the authority of the crown . |
| 38 | Note that the net 's top line runs across the back of the head to take up the slack . |
| 39 | The catering assistants started to wind down the evening 's proceedings , and Katrina and one of the other girls ( Bridget ) came out from around the back to tidy up the customer area . |
| 40 | The jockey managed to spur Dawn Run to one last effort , switching her from the inside to rally up the centre of the course . |
| 41 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 42 | By 1030 all those with the knowledge to blow up the warhead were dead or prisoners . |
| 43 | BIRKENHEAD 'S Queensway tunnel will be closed for major electrical works this weekend and Mersey Tunnels staff are taking the chance to spruce up the tube . |
| 44 | Four days previously we had arrived on the glacier to set up the tent and learned a lot during that long , cold night , when temperatures plummeted to 25 deg C below . |
| 45 | When he later took the trouble to add up the bill he discovered that the actual cost was Fr 1,481 , around £140 : an overcharge of £40 . |
| 46 | He should have the grace to admit that he was wrong and the grace to clear up the muddle that has existed in his ranks since his colleague the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden ( Mr. Galbraith ) recently announced that he was going to abolish fund holding . |
| 47 | They were concerned at the failure of the surveyor to pick up the problem , and at the cost and difficulty of seeking redress . |
| 48 | One of the shunters who rode on the engine then alighted , went down the train to connect up the vacuum pipes known to the railwaymen as vacuum bags . |
| 49 | If the community really wants to tackle the problems of alcohol abuse it merely has to encourage the government to push up the cost of alcohol beyond the point of everyday affordability . |
| 50 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 51 | The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) . |
| 52 | We 're hoping to put pressure on the Government to top up the kitty and guarentee pensions . |
| 53 | The arrangement saves space and allows the pilot to line up the throttle settings on both engines . |
| 54 | After 23 days , the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets . |
| 55 | Stephen Hughes , MEP for Durham and Blaydon unveiled the competition to draw up the Ecu European Currency Unit during a visit to the school . |
| 56 | I 've asked the union to take up the case for me . ’ |
| 57 | Treat the upstairs ceiling ( loft floor ) in a similar way to make the hole to pass up the pipe . |
| 58 | Merv the man to fire up the Aussies |
| 59 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 60 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |