Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 2 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 3 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 4 | as we can cos of the cost side erm I 'm not happy about the way they 've drawn up the writ because it does n't say precisely wh it does n't say what that invoice says it 's only |
| 5 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 6 | ‘ But people have such bad financial problems at the moment , they have to give up the chance to study and go for whatever will fill their families ' stomachs . ’ |
| 7 | All the hearty citizens of this city who can walk are at the Citadel , because that is where they have locked up the food , and are distributing it . |
| 8 | He says it 's a problem because they have to clear up the mess ; he thinks those responsible are a pest . |
| 9 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 10 | To put nature in its proper place , they have set up the exhibition as a living demonstration of the newest thinking on the interrelationship of the human and natural realms . |
| 11 | The loyalists , who are also using grenades , blast incendiary bombs and a new type of under-car booby trap device to target victims , said they plan to step up the campaign against what they describe as ‘ the pan nationalist front ’ . |