Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child knows the spelling , but has mixed up b and d . |
| 2 | Besides the planning element of opening up views and vistas — even in the smallest of gardens — and dividing up available space with walls and hedges , pergolas and arches , the book has plenty of ideas on which plants to choose for planting on given colour themes . |
| 3 | By opening up surveyors and others to greater public accountability , there may be some protection against further , more intrusive , regulation . |
| 4 | Tadpole is opening up Australia and New Zealand for its SparcBook notebook , signing Sydney-based UniXpress Pty , a Unix distributor , to handle the market . |
| 5 | And Tadpole is opening up Australia and New Zealand for its SparcBook notebook , signing Sydney-based UniXpress Pty , a Unix distributor , to handle the market . |
| 6 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 7 | So please , cheer up Charles and Di . |
| 8 | Her life was a ceaseless round of hard work , of struggling to make ends meet , of keeping up appearances and yet her lion-like spirit showed through . |
| 9 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 10 | Branding is headed up by Graham Bird ; publications is under the charge of Philip Holmes ; user membership is managed by George Schaffner ; testing is controlled by James de Raeve while Mike Lambert heads up specifications and technical membership . |
| 11 | Also there was a genuine feeling of anticipation when selecting the Soviet YAK 38 Forger ( the Russian answer to the Harrier jump jet ) but its cockpit , controls , Head Up Display and its general ‘ feel ’ were just like most of the other fighters . |
| 12 | Outside the lock gates , just as you go into th into near the erm Customs Hut , the Customs place , near the lock gates , all the rock now is what we dredged up years and years ago . |
| 13 | Thousands of tons of sand washed off the hillside onto Faringdon — silting up cellars and virtually cutting off the town . |
| 14 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 15 | It destroys the point of the exercise by driving up prices and disrupting the metals market . ’ |
| 16 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 17 | anyway the festival company , Kingston , phoned up Tracey and said , you know , have we upset you ? |
| 18 | What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on Stephen phoned up er it 's Wednesday right , and Stephen phoned up Tuesday and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen , says hang on a minute who is it ? |
| 19 | I saw the barrels begin to spin and that 's when I snatched up Barry and whipped out the trusty Smith and West Wittering . |
| 20 | Terry Butcher and Mark Wright have picked up injuries and are doubtful starters . |
| 21 | In Place 's pocket it had picked up fluff and minute scraps of human skin and hair . |
| 22 | This is a French seaweed — applied at a temperature seven degrees below normal body heat — which tones up thighs and tum by restricting the body 's normal blood flow . |
| 23 | He ignored the customers and began totting up cash and postal orders . |
| 24 | It 's just as soft as pads or cotton wool balls and is thick , extra-absorbent for mopping up jobs and it wo n't fray either . |
| 25 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 26 | We walked out and staggered back to our beds , pushing out the dummies we had left there as decoys , using rolled up overcoats and our pyjamas . |
| 27 | There were , for example , two old wooden boxes containing torn up paper and many stamps from Penny Blacks to Edwardian ; also a number of other relics from his brother 's model-making activities . ’ |
| 28 | Guinness is stumping up £750 and Helen plans to raise the rest through events including a sponsored abseil . |
| 29 | It 's all to do with squashing up waves and spreading them out . ’ |
| 30 | I have caught up cats and hedgehogs — with the latter by far the most unwelcome . |