Example sentences of "[verb] up many of " in BNC.

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1 In that way housing associations could immediately buy up many of the surplus properties that are currently available on the housing market .
2 In Glasgow he had picked up many of the skills that a more highly-born politician might have acquired in the Oxford Union or at the Bar , but skills that were very different in appearance .
3 Indeed , as number one player the market , St Louis Park , Minnesota-based Digiboard Inc , seems to be revelling in the disarray — it claims to be mopping up many of Computone and Specialix 's European deals .
4 By 12 February the paper had done some digging , which had taken it , bashfully , to Southampton Row and Indica , and had summoned up many of the spectres upsetting the generation still in thrall to Dad 's war stories .
5 Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity .
6 Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in his report on July 3 gave a strong defence of perestroika in foreign policy which took up many of the themes featured in Gorbachev 's address .
7 And who picks up many of these victims ?
8 The history of the Edwardian Conservatives sums up many of the problems associated with the history of the party .
9 I feel it sums up many of the issues we have been thinking about recently … ’
10 Work on these lines has already cleared up many of the mysteries of the Pleistocene and holds more hope of a final elucidation than any other method known .
11 You know , look , I did a deal with Mrs Thatcher in nineteen eighty six , that I would n't open up many of these issues , and if she sticks to the deal , I 'll stick to the deal .
12 In order to house his family the King had divided up many of the larger rooms , and the different floors had been connected by narrow spiral staircases which gave on to gloomy corridors badly lit by oil lamps .
13 He picked up many of his ideas from this American sojourn , and on his return to London set up a string of shops .
14 It was the Liberals , under Grimond 's leadership , who picked up many of the disaffected Tories in the by-elections of 1962 and ‘ 63 — a party with a less strong ‘ class ’ identification than the Tories or Labour .
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