Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 2 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 3 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 4 | On the other hand , an employer who dismisses a redundant employee for going on strike during his notice period will still have to make him a redundancy payment unless he serves a ‘ notice of extension ’ in accordance with the Consolidation Act requiring him to make up the time lost through the strike . |
| 5 | I am asking you to take up the privilege . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not asking you to write up the interview . |
| 7 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 8 | This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment , as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees . |