Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pers pn] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 2 | He had given us the computer codes to chalk on the outside of the boxes , but you would n't have caught him packing files into the boxes or wrapping them up with pink tape afterwards . |
| 3 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 4 | This is rather different from the Western dialectic habit in which one party will put forward his idea and back it up with supporting information . |
| 5 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 6 | I understand that Wyre Borough Council are standardising all the play equipment throughout the borough and bringing it up to British Standards safety requirements . |
| 7 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 8 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 9 | He says of Mr Kinnock 's call : ‘ I think it is a huge tribute to those of us who have spoken for the Conservative Party on industrial matters , and have had some personal experience in creating a small business and building it up to some size . |
| 10 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 11 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 12 | and , and build it up like that . |
| 13 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 15 | Despite earlier statements , both public and private , by members of the new right-leaning administration in France that they had no intention of making any immediate change in France Telecom 's status , the government told the telephone operator 's board of directors meeting last week to consider spinning off its mobile telecommunications business and opening it up to international investment . |
| 16 | Unless the agent can give you figures showing that it really will pay you to cash in your present policy and take out a completely new one , keep it on and top it up with another , smaller policy . |
| 17 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
| 18 | Alternatively , use standard furnishing fabric and match it up to other furnishings in the room . |
| 19 | And topping them up with that plangent wine |
| 20 | Dry the leaves first , and break them up into small pieces . |
| 21 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me . |
| 23 | The urgent challenge now is to educate worldwide , to bring the relevance of gene-pool conservation down to earth , and to harness the energy of economic forces and team them up with long-term conservation . |
| 24 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we still tell each other our dreams and look them up in these absurd books , and still read our horoscopes — just for fun . |
| 26 | advise small businesses and link them up with private investors . |
| 27 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 28 | Yeah , they go got it and swung it up like that , and I 'm sure to the stallion could n't find where it was ! |
| 29 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 30 | In 1923 , Jehu and Craig produced the first detailed account of the geology of this region , and followed it up with further accounts between 1925 and 1934 . |