Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 2 | It was to take a year and a half to build up the momentum for the Hot Autumn . |
| 3 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 4 | He made a move to pick up the bucket but saw Alexandra 's glance in time and withdrew his hand unhappily . |
| 5 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 6 | He arranged bridging-loans and a mortgage to make up the price of the tall house with the basement into which she had decided he should move as a lodger , abandoning his awful little bed-sit in Chepstow Road . |
| 7 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 8 | Well you mix up er you mix up some colours , black and er and black and wh i stuff Bismarck brown which Mix them together and you make a colour to match up the rest and maybe bring in darker streaks and make a pat You know what I mean ? |
| 9 | Bring to the boil , chopping through the mixture with a spoon to break up the tomatoes and pears . |
| 10 | ‘ If this is a ploy to force up the price , you 'll be disappointed , ’ he said harshly . |
| 11 | A GUN collector has been ordered by a court to give up the arsenal of weapons he had gathered since he was 16 . |
| 12 | In the centre was Gemioncourt farm which should have been a fortress to hold up the French , but was now empty because the Belgian guns and infantry had fled straight past the farm , thus yielding its strong walls and loopholed barns to the enemy . |
| 13 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 14 | In fact , midway through the first song , only the size of the band dissuaded you from buying a round to speed up the process . |
| 15 | It took a crew of sixty a week to set up the stage and seating in front of the ruined tithe barn in the grounds of Sudeley Castle for the four day festival . |
| 16 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 17 | ON January 13 the Turks will stop the flow of the mighty Euphrates river for a month to build up the water level in their new Ataturk dam ; fine , except that the Euphrates flows into Iraq which needs the water for irrigation and electricity . |
| 18 | Womenwealth is still unfunded so we ca n't respond individually or put out a catalogue to open up the market for our womens ' products . |
| 19 | Coffee was taken amid a rush to wash up the dishes , and at last , at two o'clock , they were free . |
| 20 | The Looe historian , Bond , related that a townsman who climbed a ladder to cut up the whalemeat fell into the corpse and narrowly escaped death by suffocation . |
| 21 | They need to have a reason to give up the abuse and want to live . ’ |
| 22 | An argument must be made for that — it is not a reason to mess up the rest of the country . |
| 23 | ‘ Very well ! ’ sighed Isambard , and reached a hand to take up the candle in its iron holder from the rocky ledge of the wall . |
| 24 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 25 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 26 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 27 | Well , we have a duty to draw up the lists , and manage the ballot , and by God we will carry it out and support Sir John , or else there will be madness and misrule here for evermore . |
| 28 | He 's almost in a position to blow up the feed lines . ’ |
| 29 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 30 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |