Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service . |
| 2 | If there was plenty of off-the-croft employment , and a reasonable balance between the cost of living in town and country , there would be no need to drum up interest in agriculture through schemes like the IDP . |
| 3 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 4 | A number of communities drew up counter-addresses in opposition to the High Church ones . |
| 5 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 6 | Keeping up morale in the Falklands |
| 7 | Macdonald also remarks a contrario , that " while the cheapness of women 's work as compositors in Edinburgh seems to have attracted a certain class of work from London , the men 's success in keeping up wages in London bookbinding does not seem to have driven bookbinding to the provinces " . |
| 8 | He says he is in Liverpool but we are also keeping up inquiries in Scotland . ’ |
| 9 | Father ‘ beat up prisoner in jail ’ |
| 10 | Ollie remember that time when we beat up Paul in ? |
| 11 | The same people who kill gypsies in Romania , burn Africans in Italy , beat up Turks in Germany , rape Indians in England , knife Algerians and bomb Jews in France ( not to mention the abundant discrimination to which ethnic minorities , women and homosexuals are prey in most countries ) those same people have pointed a virtuous finger at the USA , with marches and demonstrations to salve their consciences of any hint of collusion with those in power . |
| 12 | Culturally , the most militant gangs who beat up immigrants in the name of the nation belong to the international youth culture and reflect its modes and fashions , jeans , punk-rock , junk food and all . |
| 13 | She is full of praise for the invaluable public library system which has come up trumps in most of her researches . |
| 14 | The robot business began to look brighter as we built up experience in putting the machines to work . |
| 15 | After leaving Eton , he built up interests in food , clothing , pharmaceuticals , shops , mining and forestry . |
| 16 | OpenVision Inc , the unusual nine-month-old Pleasanton , California start-up with $25m in funding and a $12m revenue stream , which launched its unusual systems management concept at the end of last month ( CI No 2,158 ) , has picked up friends in high places . |
| 17 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 18 | She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world . |
| 19 | Auspex Systems Inc has picked up distributors in Europe and the Pacific Rim including Storage Data Systems International in France , RacTech GmbH in Germany and Edata in Scandinavia . |
| 20 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
| 21 | WISH you were here can so easily become ‘ wish we 'd never gone ’ when you arrive home to find that burglars have emptied the tool shed , the pipes have burst and the dog has picked up fleas in the kennels . |
| 22 | ( Charles may have picked up malaria in Italy in 875 : he was seriously ill from late July to mid-August 876 , and from December 876 to January 877 . |
| 23 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 24 | The industry is also interested in signing up people in Brazil to write programs ( Brazil boasts a large number of Japanese emigres ) . |
| 25 | A winding up order in respect of the bank was made in January 1992 . |
| 26 | This is very clear from the results of the monetary union with East Germany and the subsequent massive mopping up operation in which the central government is engaging . |
| 27 | He assured me they never put dogs down and they would try to help her build up trust in humans again before finding her a home . |
| 28 | Yet still it appears impossible to discover the ownership of shares held through a minor Swiss bank which were used to help a second division British company build up stakes in several third division British companies . |
| 29 | Once you start paying the full rate , you build up benefits in your own right . |
| 30 | Build up exposure in early mornings and late afternoons , when the sun is weaker . |