Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] 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 | We always like to tie up the loose ends in this court . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He watched Pie'oh'pah stoop to pick up the scattered clothes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 10 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |