Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baker must keep up the peacemaking . |
| 2 | But Scott could stir up a lot of trouble before next May . |
| 3 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 4 | Cost £1.00 per person , Crosslink will make up the difference . |
| 5 | Roberts will fix up a room for you . |
| 6 | There is still a way out of this economic mess , if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it . |
| 7 | The FLA should draw up a development plan with every Football League club to bring its ground up to scratch over an agreed time period . |
| 8 | For example , an increase in the demand for the services of carpenters in Scotland will drive up the wages of Scottish carpenters . |
| 9 | At this rate poor Ollie will end up a Mr Mopp . |
| 10 | This tidal wave is a product of the combined efforts of the jostling of the crustal plates and the behaviour of the deep Ocean through which the resulting shock waves are transmitted : a small nudge in southern Chile can set up a wave that streaks across the entire Pacific in a matter of hours , with unimaginably enormous force . |
| 11 | Poverty rather than indifference is the reason for Moscow 's inaction , it seems : it was Mikhail Gorbachev who in his autumn 1988 UN speech in New York proposed that the UN should set up an emergency centre for the environment . |
| 12 | After winning the top-heat level breaks for the last two Saturdays , Batley Ranger could notch up a hat-trick in Saturday 's event , which is sponsored by DLS engineering . |
| 13 | ‘ Silver would put up the pirate 's flag , the Jolly Roger , ’ said Ben . |
| 14 | Egypt had already secretly proposed that Israel should set up a Palestine Liberation Committee to pursue a solution to the refugee problem in the form of a small Palestinian state in the Arab-held parts of Palestine . |
| 15 | The town 's traders agreed to move their stalls off the High Street , and the mayor agreed to give up his parking space , so the BBC could set up an exhibition marquee . |
| 16 | Another aspect of the proposal was that Glaxo would set up a research centre and co-market Imigran with a French company . |
| 17 | NSA would pick up the call with their satellites ; the British GCHQ would get it ; so would the Russians … |
| 18 | Vice-president , international operations Terry Booth will head up the operation . |
| 19 | After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 . |
| 20 | And for those who were n't … well , no doubt Luke Hunter would turn up the charm and devise some plausible enough explanation . |
| 21 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 22 | Then Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father , and God will be all in all . |
| 23 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 24 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't doubt but what Alfred 'll rig up a bit of shelter . |
| 26 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 27 | However , if Bates can conjure up a repeat of last year 's progress to the fourth round , he is unlikely to go any further with second seed and twice former champion Stefan Edberg blocking his path . |
| 28 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 29 | ‘ Trumper , you 'll follow , and Prescott will bring up the rear . ’ |
| 30 | Pittsburgh can wrap up the AFC Central division by beating Seattle if Houston and Cleveland fail to win . |