Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 2 | So despite the payment reinstatement of the sacked journalists is still no nearer but some intend to keep up the pressure to get their jobs back . |
| 3 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 4 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 5 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But people have such bad financial problems at the moment , they have to give up the chance to study and go for whatever will fill their families ' stomachs . ’ |
| 7 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 8 | An important influence over this change has come from the US , where shareholders have stepped up the pressure to conform to good community practice . |
| 9 | Many subsequent critics have taken up the point made by radical blacks at the time that this was a romantic and pastoral view of the rural South , but several early critics hailed the film as a brilliantly realistic depiction of a whole section of American society . |
| 10 | In fact the Council that have put up the money to buy Medley boat station was in fact the Oxford City Council , so it is actually slightly different |
| 11 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |