Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [verb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 2 | Aware of German determination to maintain control over the currency , the Commission gave Pöhl a decisive say in drawing up the draft statutes of the proposed European Central Bank . |
| 3 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 4 | Begin by offering up the tree to the hole , some root systems will be rather one-sided and you may need to adjust the hole accordingly . |
| 5 | But , in the aggregate , they are unable to increase their holdings of bonds and they only succeed in driving up the price of bonds . |
| 6 | I feel like rounding up the fuckers and shooting each one of them . |
| 7 | I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’ |
| 8 | The other task in July for Xu — he is one of China 's most highly regarded chefs , consultants and writers , the Chinese equivalent of Victor Ceserani — was to teach the Norwich staff and advise on setting up the course . |
| 9 | Start by picking up the coast path by the sea in Swanage . |
| 10 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |