Example sentences of "[verb] up the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 2 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 3 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 4 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 5 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 6 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 7 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 8 | Two days later she 'd be back , picking up the same rubber skirt and saying , half you got ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |
| 9 | USL expects Sparc compatible builders like ICL plc to pick up the former , with the Japanese and maybe firms in the Mips ABI group going for the other . |
| 10 | ‘ Scurrying round to pick up the few crumbs that fall from the table ? ’ |
| 11 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 12 | Those who are not may choose the more attractive route , going north to Koblenz , turning right to follow the Rhine , turning left about 8km ( 5 miles ) after Kaiserstuhl to pick up the same road through Jestetten . |
| 13 | With the change in wording necessitated by the inclusion of ‘ disorderly , ’ this is in virtually identical terms to the provision in relation to section 4 , and would therefore seem to open up the same possibilities for argument that that section does through section 6(3) . |
| 14 | Why else would there already be the reported droves of tour operators and speculators visiting South Africa , if not to set up the same kind of hospitality package deals that South Africans were forced to buy in 1991 ? |
| 15 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |
| 16 | The customer turned up the same day and wanted changes made . |
| 17 | They open up the these blast furnaces and the , we 'd all be in the open air and the reflection there used to be quite a reflection in the sky all round there . |
| 18 | You then consult that on the screen and print it out only if you think you are going to want to look up the same word again . |
| 19 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 20 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 21 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
| 22 | On his orders , the Ironclaw Big'uns prowled the burning streets gathering up the half drunken Orcs and dragging the Goblins back into the battlelines . |
| 23 | They would wash up the same way even if they were not watched . |
| 24 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 25 | Spending time considering that Chemical Dependency might be the true cause of many of these secondary consequences is a better use of the doctor 's time than trying to tidy up the same repeated consequences time and time again . |
| 26 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 27 | And Isaiah takes up the same theme in the fifty fifth chapter . |
| 28 | In addition computer artists Karl Sims , Rebecca Allen and Julia Hayward have provided animated speculations about the digital landscapes of the future which fill up the latter part of the show . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm hopeless with the till — I ring up the same price for everything and I 'm always worried a keen-eyed viewer will spot it ! ’ |
| 30 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |