Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up the [noun sg] [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 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 . |
| 10 | Higher rate taxpayers must top up the tax to 40 per cent . |
| 11 | It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems . |
| 12 | With its enhanced ability , the computer should speed up the operation of British Robotic Systems 's main product , the Viking vision unit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Today the man in charge outlined the sort of people who 'll make up the bulk of the 450-strong workforce . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'll clear up the mess in a minute . |
| 17 | I 'll fetch up the bath to you straight , and have Adam bring cans of water up here . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 'll keep up the demand for English actors . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Moreover many farm workers still find it difficult to meet the cost of private transport which might open up the range of alternatives . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 26 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 27 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 28 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 29 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 30 | If this wife made such an application the husband could set up the fact of desertion as an answer to the claim , but he could not set up clause 3 as a bar to the proceedings . |