Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] up the [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 they , they actually assign there 's er , there 's er a computer system which er allows you to build up the rates for doing work .
2 They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger .
3 For the ground crews there is barely time to think as they bomb up the tornados for yet another sortie .
4 ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’
5 In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’
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