Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 2 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 3 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 4 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , Lady Alethea and Gilbey fled to Italy . |
| 5 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 6 | Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that there was an attempt to cover up the fact that many of those units are in serious financial difficulties ? |
| 7 | How might an organization divide up the responsibility for marketing activities between its sub-divisions and head office ? |
| 8 | IN AN effort to clean up the mess that has afflicted the Environmental Protection Agency , President Reagan last week pulled an old broom out of the cupboard . |
| 9 | This did not dispel rumours , however , that the resignation was part of an effort to clean up the image of the justice system . |
| 10 | In an effort to tighten up the administration of poor relief the Local Government Board issued a circular in 1871 to the effect that outdoor relief should not be granted to the able-bodied widow with one child . |
| 11 | Throughout the day the Bank sold both dollars and European currency units almost continuously in an effort to shore up the pound . |
| 12 | ‘ I never finished it , but it seemed better just as an idea to sum up the album . |
| 13 | They called police and an officer climbed up the fire escape and made the grim discovery . |
| 14 | In a recent case , the Second Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session has decided , in an appeal on the basis of law equally applicable in England and Wales , that a minority shareholder is entitled to an order to wind up the company on the just and equitable ground under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 , even though he is not entitled to a share purchase order because of unfair prejudice in terms of s 459 , CA 1985 ( see Jesner v Jarrad Properties Ltd , The Times , 26 October 1992 ) . |
| 15 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |
| 16 | Yesterday the High Court issued an order winding up the company , after a petition from Board of Trade president Michael Heseltine . |