Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to ride up the front with you . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Choosing the right time and place to bring up the subject of safer sex is important . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But stop to add up the value of your house , car , shares , insurance policies — the total is probably more than you realised . |
| 10 | The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 . |
| 11 | ‘ You jest join up the dots from the top downwards and when you done that , yous 'll have written yer name . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Philippe Barbe , the skipper and owner of the fleet-footed maxi Speedy-Go tidies up the deck before a rain shower |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 16 | ( 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once you have a bootable machine run FDISK to set up the partition(s) on your drive . |
| 19 | He was therefore use to give up the leadership of the BDA at this juncture and to leave it to someone of the new generation to embrace politics in order to achieve a better deal for the deaf . |
| 20 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 21 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 22 | The Book of Earth , the cornucopia of all the tiny books that go to make up The Book of Languages and even more disconcertingly , The Book of Mirrors , are all locked up in a glass case . |
| 23 | Bring in the dumb-bells and we need the decibels , start to pump up the jam on the dance floor and we are into pumping up the volumes . |
| 24 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |
| 25 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 26 | That is what the " diversity of human culture " really amounts to ; the variety of different ways which human beings choose to cut up the continuities of their animal experience . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 28 | We talking about this and I was saying about coming from construction I says I 've says I 've to go up the cut like |
| 29 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 30 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |