Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other .
2 Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels .
3 Maybe she needs to grow up a bit more
4 She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light .
5 In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample .
6 He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free .
7 So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup .
8 In Moonraker , beautiful specimens queue to join Sir Hugo Drax 's space stud farm , unconcerned that he plans to blow up the world .
9 On Monday though he intends to start up a petition asking for his greens to be reinstated .
10 It votes to set up a force , but keeps it too small and sends it off with orders not to shoot .
11 The weaker the AC electric field , the longer it takes to build up the power of those ions , but the build-up is unavoidable if the particle mass , the magnetic field strength and the AC signal frequency satisfy the formula for resonance .
12 And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co-operative ?
13 It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year .
14 I do n't know , from tea time it seems to warm up the house
15 It aims to set up a network of high quality and affordable playcare provision meeting the district 's needs , community resources officer Jan Farrow said .
16 His difficulty is accompanied by a no doubt symptomatic increasing distrust of universals so that , in championing specificities against them , he seems to give up the attempt to validate the universals — History as Totalization — that originally formed the object of his project .
17 He hopes to set up a steering group to develop ideas .
18 He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares .
19 It aims to make more information about Gerson available , fund research projects , and eventually it hopes to set up a centre for people who want to try it , in combination with psychological counselling , according to Renee Henry .
20 Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’
21 If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know :
22 The next stage is for the UN secretary-general on May 18th to say how he proposes to set up a commission that will , in the 45 days after that , develop a plan for inspecting and destroying these weapons .
23 's fluency in Spanish will be a big help as he works to set up the distribution and training systems which hold the key to success .
24 The couple play chess in bed and then , as they begin to have sex , he stops to wind up the alarm clock .
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