Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Three bottles thrown out to sea and they just happen to meet up a thousand miles away . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 3 | I also enjoy ripping up the rejected drafts of this manuscript . |
| 4 | We always like to tie up the loose ends in this court . ’ |
| 5 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 6 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 7 | The third weakness is a fundamental one : various institutional differences in the operation and segregation of the many sectors that go to make up the financial services industry . |
| 8 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 10 | He watched Pie'oh'pah stoop to pick up the scattered clothes . |
| 11 | This is another good reason for working samples before starting the actual garment , you will be able to tell whether you need to pick up the laddered stitches or not and that can make a big difference to the overall tension . |
| 12 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 13 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 14 | Ravenous Geac Computer Corp Ltd , Markham , Ontario , hyperactively busy buying up the foreign subsidiaries of moribund computer companies , has now bought NBI Canada Inc for under $800,000 ; the networking company does some $1.6m a year . |
| 15 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 16 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 17 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 18 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 19 | As the current Gogarth guidebook heads towards halfway in its lifespan and a reasonable number of new routes are being climbed , I have rounded up a few corrections and other snippets that are applicable to the existing routes . |
| 20 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 21 | Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) . |