Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground .
2 ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing .
3 It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole .
4 Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion .
5 I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth .
6 But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts .
7 When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it .
8 We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out .
9 The Government must weigh up the needs of vital areas like job training , social security benefits , hospital building and the changeover to the council tax .
10 The plaintiff 's solicitor should draw up the schedule in four columns , for item number , description , amount claimed and the fourth , blank , for the defendant 's comments .
11 Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent .
12 It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems .
13 The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time .
14 With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit .
15 The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims .
16 If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you .
17 Today the man in charge outlined the sort of people who 'll make up the bulk of the 450-strong workforce .
18 To a school librarian , the term might conjour up the image of compiling a computerized catalouge with details of resources held in the school library .
19 I 'll clear up the mess in a minute .
20 I 'll fetch up the bath to you straight , and have Adam bring cans of water up here . ’
21 THE CONCEPT of a Squatters ' Ball might conjure up the image of crusties in black tie and taffeta but this is n't yer average kind of ball .
22 I 'll send up the chaps from the mortuary van if you 're ready for them to take him away . "
23 Apart from legislation which might break up the unity of imperial law , some colonial legislation was likely to affect the interests of people in Britain directly .
24 It 'll keep up the demand for English actors .
25 I 'll set up the interviews for you . ’
26 She chuckled , then might pick up the animal by the scruff ( if it were a cavey , or a bird ) , and dash it to death on the ground and spill the guts to read them for herself , then sprinkle blood inside the circle and on her cheeks and brow .
27 Moreover many farm workers still find it difficult to meet the cost of private transport which might open up the range of alternatives .
28 The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context .
29 He could overrule , as it were , by sending " public " preachers , for example to preach a crusade and , most important , he could build up the power of the monasteries by granting or confirming exemption from the diocesan .
30 At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through .
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