Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 2 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 3 | Ditches and lanes frequently divide up the platforms , so that a rough plan can be seen of the former crofts lying along the lanes . |
| 4 | The user has also to construct a path through the relations thus setting up the linkages required at run time . |
| 5 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 6 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 7 | The Cuban exile forces landed at the Bay of Pigs ( 17 April 1961 ) , but no rising took place and Castro 's forces easily rounded up the invaders . |
| 8 | Erm and it does make it very difficult then for Trading Standards then to pick up the pieces . |
| 9 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 10 | The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature . |
| 11 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |