Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] up [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A librarian may build up sections of the stock that he feels are important even though there is no immediate response in terms of issues . |
| 2 | Joy , you must ring up Jerry about the |
| 3 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 4 | Later , at a party conference in Lotoka on April 26 , delegates had decided that it should put up candidates in the elections , but should refuse to take up any seats which it won , to underline the rejection of the racially based Constitution . |
| 5 | What little the authors can say , however , should stir up debate in the palaeoanthropological world . |
| 6 | From his home in Worcester , Phil Ride says he 'll keep up pressure on the British Government to work for his brother 's release . |
| 7 | Might come up trumps. on the night but nobody do on . |
| 8 | Some companies could end up losers from the move as much of the tax has , up to now , been offset in this way . |
| 9 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 10 | That will make East Germans feel even more imprisoned and could heat up resentment against the government to explosion point . |
| 11 | ‘ I was hoping you could pick up Eddie from the Blackfriars at one sharp . |
| 12 | Graduates with a specialism in Tourism and Leisure may take up employment in the management of tourism ventures , or in managing tourist flows . |
| 13 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 14 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 15 | This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants . |
| 16 | Local lore has it that the hands belong to a convicted highwayman who would hold up carriage-travellers in the early nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Fourthly , he would pick up ideas from the avant-garde of poetry , or of jazz , rather than from the living old masters of the classic school of Paris . |
| 18 | " I Charles Gillingham Hamilton M.A. of Stockport in the Borough of Stockport and County of Chester , Clerk , a Clergyman of the Church of England , in priest 's orders and a Graduate of the University of Dublin declare that I will discharge always to the best of my ability the duties of Headmaster of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , and that in case I shall he removed from my Office I will thereupon relinquish all claim to the Office and its future emoluments and I will deliver up possession of the School and my residence to the Trustees and that it shall be lawful for them in the same case without ejectment or other legal process to take possession of my residence and remove myself and my effects therefrom . " |
| 19 | The danger for such grand schemes is that the developed countries will think up targets for the rest of the world to meet , without fully considering the implications for their own domestic policies . |
| 20 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 21 | Heat from the projector will dry up ink in the pens more quickly than with preparation on the film beforehand . |
| 22 | This , of course , will use up space on the memory card , but in practice you probably would n't save too many versions of the pattern , as too many stitches between the repeats will lead to long floats on the reverse side of the knitting . |
| 23 | Despite the arduous conditions , the men are committed to getting the job done ; they will clean up sites at the end of each shift to give the incoming team a flying start , and shifts often work on into changeover and maintenance time . |
| 24 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 25 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |
| 26 | The second is the extent to which the offeror 's shareholders will take up shares under the open offer . |
| 27 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 28 | The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ . |
| 29 | On the morrow or soon after , as our uncle of Gloucester told me , he will take up residence in the Tower . ’ |
| 30 | Recognizing the influence of these figures , advertisers who wish to promote products in a youth market or to discourage drug abuse will summon up images of the alternative culture . |