Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb base] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 2 | Of course safeguards are necessary for the environment , for local residents , for local communities and for the right to a decent quality of life , so I warmly welcome the transport and works Bill , which will defend the safeguards but speed up the decision process . |
| 3 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 4 | The Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill , which aims to curb bogus applications and speed up the processing of cases , has been attacked by campaigners and a mass lobby was held outside Parliament before the debate began . |
| 5 | I had to water the plants and stock up the fridge as I do n't want to be reported to the NSPCC . |
| 6 | We tie up the boats and wade up the creek towards it , enveloped in a wind of fine mist . |
| 7 | In this case , cut the circuit board from standard plain copper-clad board , file the edges and clean up the copper with an abrasive block , ensuring that the board is then completely clean and grease-free . |
| 8 | The work for the weekend was to bring in the edges and build up the centre , thus making side ditches and a reasonable camber . |
| 9 | Mark 's promotions and progress up the company ladder . |
| 10 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 11 | Turn somersaults and climb up the underside of a ladder with your armour on . |
| 12 | Just pack your bags and load up the car , and leave all the other arrangements to me . |
| 13 | Later , I 'll wash those sheets and clean up the room . |
| 14 | Measure for measure , the paper is more expensive than if you were to buy full sheets and cut up the paper yourself , but pochettes are good when you want to try different weights or colours without paying for full sheets . |
| 15 | So we teach our daughters that er , er , the first and foremost duty they have to perform in life is to like after your husband and elders and bring up the family , and the economical side , contribution from the er female is secondary , although they claim it a part as well , erm as economically as well . |
| 16 | Eventually we got together to devise the patents and scale up the process . ’ |
| 17 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 18 | In this system one individual worker , employed by an agency responsible for community care services , is appointed to assess the needs of an individual client , plan a comprehensive set of services for the individual , coordinate the various services and follow up the individual 's progress over time . |
| 19 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 20 | The study , produced for the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse and Alcohol Concern , indicates SSDs must catch up if they are to assess misusers and stump up the cash for community care . |