Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 2 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 3 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 4 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 5 | Or phone up a cheerful friend who always makes you laugh . |
| 6 | You ask for a chair and four telephone directories and rig up an impromptu table near the only plug — and ask all your prospective clients to turn their heads around . |
| 7 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 8 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 9 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 10 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 11 | These two lie close together , and make up an equilateral triangle with Zeta Puppis and Lambda Velorum . |
| 12 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
| 13 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 14 | and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are . |
| 15 | try and speak up a little bit because we 've still got the tapes going . |
| 16 | Working on entirely different design principles , each successfully publicised their stunters to capture public attention in the mid 1970s and open up a new wave of enthusiasm . |
| 17 | Answer guide : Reduce the bank column by £100 and open up a new asset column for the new asset , a desk , and put £100 in that column . |
| 18 | COUNCILLORS in Wrexham Maelor are to undertake a survey of trees in the area and draw up a firm policy on tree protection . |
| 19 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 20 | We need to retain the choice to present ourselves to the world as ‘ not-beautiful ’ , to prevent suffocation and keep up a satisfactory interaction with people and tasks that we encounter . |
| 21 | They retook the cursed city of Anlec and cast up a great fortress in the rubble . |
| 22 | He somehow manages to distil the very essence of everything good in the lineage of Bobby Vee , Jefferson Airplane , Bob Marley and The Fall , mangle the results in the scrambled computer of his mind and offer up a new vision so convincing you forgive his rants against organised religion . |
| 23 | The same applies in the labour market where workers made unemployed do not immediately reduce their asking wage and take up a new job — instead , they spend some ( possibly quite considerable ) time searching for a new job at the old wage . |
| 24 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 25 | We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme . |
| 26 | By filopodial extension and contraction the cells migrate , and take up a ring-like pattern of the wall of the embryo . |
| 27 | Teddington had to give up Laslett and Barker to England but put up a spirited performance against the national side . |
| 28 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |