Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] up the " in BNC.

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1 Three hours later , with most of us starving , the head waiter knocked on the door , threw Robson the keys and asked us to lock up the restaurant when we 'd finished . ’
2 He balled it , and used it to wipe up the mess .
3 Clive uses the Chevvy like a normal family car … he takes it to work and uses it to pick up the shopping .
4 I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his
5 My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’
6 A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against .
7 Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ .
8 What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime .
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