Example sentences of "he could [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 3 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 4 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 5 | He could pick up the fear . |
| 6 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 7 | A computer is the only way he could weigh up the effect of the bus fare factor . |
| 8 | But what I did say , and he said he could do it , was to divide up , to compare us , that he could divide up the profitability and I 'm not sure that , you know i in terms of |