Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , it seemed that the antics of marine woodworms in the piling of Barmouth 's 115 span timber bridge would rob the Cambrian coast of its railway , but BR surprisingly stumped up £500,000 for short-term repairs , and , after a seven-month closure , the line was back in business . |
| 2 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 3 | The Christian Bible with its progression from a wholly imaginary Garden of Eden to an authentically historical Roman Empire by way of a geographically very mixed up Land of Egypt and Land of Canaan is prototypical of a species of origin saga which can be encountered in all parts of the world among all kinds of people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the first time that the men 's and women 's championships had been combined and I think that Marea Hartmann , the Secretary , was trying to drum up publicity for her side of the event . |
| 6 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 8 | This story had been used extensively by the Americans to drum up support against Gadaffi in the tame sections of the Western media even though they knew it was untrue . |
| 9 | Now the organisers are hoping to drum up support from local businesses to beat the threat of closure and keep the Playday alive . |
| 10 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 11 | The yacht will also host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 12 | The Royal Yacht Britannia will be used for part of the tour and also to host a number of ‘ sea days ’ , used by the Government and trade associations to drum up business for Britain , before and after the tour . |
| 13 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 14 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 15 | The organisation is using the event to drum up business by running a St Valentine 's Raffle . |
| 16 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His role was to drum up contributions from friends in big business . |
| 19 | We send up data about ourselves and our problems . |
| 20 | We send up data about others and their problems . |
| 21 | send up cloudlets on which she rides |
| 22 | Russia 's freeing of prices had caused controversy with other CIS member states , which were effectively compelled to follow suit , since Russian consumers would otherwise simply buy up goods at controlled prices from neighbouring republics . |
| 23 | This has involved thinning trees , opening up glades around mature Scots pines and planting juniper and blackberries . |
| 24 | It can be so — certain women have a perpetual ‘ devouring ’ quality — but it is a natural process , echoed in the menstrual cycle , and in the moon 's waxing and waning , and it can be used to positive effect , regulating the ebb and flow of relationships and opening up pathways of communication . |
| 25 | ‘ We expect to be the McDonald 's of videotex , opening up franchises around the country , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 26 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 27 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 28 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 29 | Opening up hearings to the public would require a byelaw change , but the PCD has already implemented the move to more informative reporting . |
| 30 | In the present educational climate in the UK this involves an important political stand , opening up problems of language awareness , discourse , text , and tradition . |