Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So just use wax to build up the polish |
| 2 | I 've got to go up the town , like |
| 3 | " I 've got to give up the job . |
| 4 | Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine . |
| 5 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |
| 6 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 7 | But he is confident that some announcements will be made by year-end on those who have decided to take up the offer . |
| 8 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 9 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 10 | ‘ Italian security chiefs .. have pledged to lock up the yobs in Sardinia 's notorious Buoncamino Prison and leave them there until AFTER the World Cup ends . ’ |
| 11 | We have tried to sum up the fragments of information which we have for the last three centuries in our second chapter , ‘ Glimpses of a Lost History ’ . |
| 12 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 13 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |