Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working in sales and marketing , I am sure you comments in the August issue following the letter from Martin Smith on the buffer zone are deliberately designed to drum up readers ' letters . |
| 2 | Anyone who wished to hoax an archaeologist need only buy up Quirke 's stock and then sink it in a bog to be rediscovered . |
| 3 | This is not an area about which one can be dogmatic : it is simply a matter of opening up students ' minds to the need for some care in the matter of selection of learnable language . |
| 4 | The other tricky operation , opening up Japan 's rice market , will also please the Americans . |
| 5 | He has made mistakes , but nobody is more committed to opening up Australia 's still-stuffy economy . |
| 6 | First quarter results , while down a drastic 80% compared with the same quarter last year , at least showed a profit of $0.8 million , notching up DG 's second profitable quarter in a row and making six profitable quarters out of the last eight . |
| 7 | In my spare hours , I drew up Ned 's terms of severance and thought nervously about my own . |
| 8 | From one angle , it could be merely resting , yet from another , the crushed corpse seems to sum up man 's relationship with flies perfectly . |
| 9 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
| 10 | That seemed to sum up Robinson 's attitude when , within weeks of becoming ‘ Lord High Everything ’ in the playing administration , he gladly handed over many of his responsibilities to a new team manager , Mike Hendrick . |
| 11 | God plays an important role in Coleridge 's poetry , as a symbol of ultimate creativity ; both ‘ the creation ’ in biblical terms , and the powers of creation with which we are all invested , are the result of the workings of the ‘ Great Universal Teacher ’ , and so consequently the poet has tremendous respect for God , as he lets us think as we wish ; ‘ he shall mould thy spirit and by giving make it ask ’ , is a line that seems to sum up Coleridge 's views adequately . |
| 12 | Instead he heated up Anna 's food in a microwave as 30-year-old Mrs Love shouted instructions . |
| 13 | The boy who made Peter Pan grow up Writer 's son sees his dream come true |
| 14 | While the remorseless Soviet military build-up continued to give Defence powerful arguments for keeping up Britain 's Defence forces , the failure of the British economy to grow in the enervating climate of the Welfare State progressively eroded Britain 's military strength . |
| 15 | Nazis carve up girl 's face |
| 16 | Then the minders threatened to smash up Gaynor 's camcorder . ’ |
| 17 | They did not screw up Niki 's car deliberately , but they probably thought the wind had gone out of his sails . |
| 18 | Confrontation with the United States was followed by the more dramatic confrontations with the French at Moruroa atoll where the goaded French beat up Greenpeace 's skipper , McTaggart , rammed a protest boat and eventually murdered a photographer who went down with the sabotaged Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in July 1985 . |
| 19 | As professionals , committed to securing solutions to their clients ' briefs and aware of their social and environmental responsibilities , landscape architects can not be caricatured as a collection of irresponsible businessmen , intent on driving up clients ' budgets to serve their own greedy ends . |
| 20 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 21 | In general Golding built up Piggy 's character by only stressing his bad points , so that Piggy could get full sympathy from the reader . |
| 22 | Buddie snatched up Frankie 's hand , prodded the swelling and squeezed the purple bruises in his search for a break in the skin . |
| 23 | Benny had picked up Eve 's handbag , a small cheap plastic one which Mother Francis had bought for her in Peggy Pine 's shop as a going-to-Dublin present a few weeks ago . |
| 24 | The UK 's Ampersand Systems Ltd , Bristol , is re-launching itself as the Open Systems Centre , and as has picked up IBM 's RS/6000 to market . |
| 25 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe 's TransScript software for distribution : the software allows Unix programs to print to Postscript devices . |
| 26 | He had picked up Jamie 's helmet and put it on , the sides hanging well below his ears , his eyes hardly visible . |
| 27 | But Curtis in his eagerness to catch up with his man , had momentarily overlooked the fact that the Prophet had picked up Foster 's gun . |
| 28 | Likewise computer king David Goldman and Newcastle 's ‘ Fishfinger ’ Ken Bell have picked up Labour 's red rose and backed Mr Kinnock . |
| 29 | The Tysons have yet to see any cash payment from the liquidators who have been winding up BCI 's affairs . |
| 30 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |