Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would very much like to pick up the ball and run with it as to whether this policy is necessary or not . |
| 2 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 3 | I 'd just like to pick up the point that 's been made twice that there 's no such thing as an affordable housing problem . |
| 4 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 5 | Thorfinn had said , ‘ To get to Dunkeld … to get to anywhere that matters , he would still have to sail up the Tay or march north by the Forth crossing . |
| 6 | But I would also like to pick up the point that Mr said , there is no evidence to suggest there 's a massive problem of the local residents of North Yorkshire er not being able to compete with people in other counties to the North and to the West . |
| 7 | If so , maternal antibodies would probably have mopped up the NFEs before their analysis , suggesting that the analysed cells are of a different type . |
| 8 | This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces . |
| 9 | Given immediately upon stopping the nursing this will often help to dry up the milk supply . |
| 10 | ‘ If I was one of your students and you lot were counting up your staff-student contact hours , working to rule and refusing to mark exam papers , I might well prefer to give up the course and marry my brother 's friend Sharif . |
| 11 | ( However , P-E sees a special need for its application in these days of frequently changing corporate cultures and structures : for example , a successful predator might well want to stir up the management of a recent acquisition , and encourage its executives to start thinking along the same lines as their new bosses ) . |
| 12 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 13 | He may even have to set up the maul before he hits the tackler . |
| 14 | ‘ I go to the Jobcentre and they do n't even bother opening up the files . |
| 15 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 16 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
| 17 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 18 | The distance is of a deep blue , and the near trees and grass of the freshest green ; for Constable could never consent to parch up the verdure of nature to obtain warmth . |
| 19 | Some back-row moves would certainly help to break up the pattern of play , but they must have a solid scrum first . |