Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I referred to Yorkshire six minutes ago — it has taken the hon. Gentleman that long to work up a head of steam . |
| 2 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 3 | Want to set up a table in document ? |
| 4 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 5 | ‘ Look — the next time you want to set up a surveillance in London , do remember that we 're here to help . |
| 6 | So , if you want to read up the background to all this , this is th one of the best books and one of the most recent on the reading list , it 's on the reading list on the second page or something . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 8 | It is also the place for those who want to soak up the sun on their hotel terraces or at the Lido , a huge pool so close to the sea that waves frequently wash into it . |
| 9 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 10 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 11 | The result confirmed Mr Yeltsin as the leading figure among radicals who want to speed up the process of reform , and who believe President Gorbachov is not moving fast enough to dismantle the old system . |
| 12 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 13 | We have been offered a pot-pourri of amendments — some favour London , some favour London and the south-east and others suggest carving up the country into all sorts of different regions . |
| 14 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 15 | Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ? |
| 16 | Eventually the scientists at the National Radiological Protection Board hope to set up a network of solar radiation monitors across Britain and Europe . |
| 17 | But stop to add up the value of your house , car , shares , insurance policies — the total is probably more than you realised . |
| 18 | Over time , more complex social routines may be established as adult and infant begin to build up a set of expectancies or joint understandings regarding the meanings of particular behaviours . |
| 19 | And , he said I do n't how you do this , you know , yo I really do n't know how you manage to run up a bill like that . |
| 20 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 21 | ‘ You jest join up the dots from the top downwards and when you done that , yous 'll have written yer name . |
| 22 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 23 | ‘ I like to work up an appetite for my breakfast . |
| 24 | Philippe Barbe , the skipper and owner of the fleet-footed maxi Speedy-Go tidies up the deck before a rain shower |
| 25 | Frank will be going into more detail on these and our other businesses , which are all facing an uphill struggle , particularly in the U K and North America , both in deep recession and which you can see continue to make up the bulk of our markets . |
| 26 | Try to rig up a line through there and down the side of the pod . |
| 27 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 28 | ( As examples of the latter , try looking up the length of the river Mississippi in as many reference books as you can find , and compare the answers. ) 5 . |
| 29 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 30 | Once you have a bootable machine run FDISK to set up the partition(s) on your drive . |