Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also helps them build up market research techniques — required in the technology section of the National Curriculum — as well as developing planning , advertising , promotion and interviewing skills . |
| 2 | ‘ When we get home , go up to bed , and later I will have them send up gruel , ’ said Dinah . |
| 3 | . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts . |
| 4 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 5 | I got up feeling encouraged and thoroughly supporting her strong positive vision of Europe 's future . |
| 6 | when I grow up mummy I 'll |
| 7 | very energetic and I should be alright now after been to sleep should do I 'm alright I ca n't think of anything I wan na get I want up town anyway nothing think of anything |
| 8 | I 'm a shneider ( tailor ) and I cut up cloth , and ven I 'm finished , a customer also feels vell . |
| 9 | I said I added up Whisky , added up wine , nothing in , but they they watch you . |
| 10 | I hope I wake up soom , this is a nightmare . |
| 11 | Only once did our guests mutiny and that was when I served up pastry soup . |
| 12 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
| 13 | Nearby in Coire an Lochain , Brian Davison and I started up Daddy Longlegs and finished up Ventricle for a very hard route called Big Daddy ( VI ) . |
| 14 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 15 | And the next time she mentioned it I brought up church . |
| 16 | I sum up Lord Mayor . |
| 17 | On reflecting about the activities of the last year I looked up enterprise in ’ Roget 's Thesaurus ’ . |
| 18 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 19 | ‘ Can I go up Lochnagar ? |
| 20 | A lovely letter come from her before I went up north . |
| 21 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
| 22 | And I went up centre with it . |
| 23 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |
| 24 | Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago . |
| 25 | It happened with me , when at the age of 18 , I took up pen and paper to make a reply to the readers ' letters column of the Glasgow Evening Times , in answer to a man who supported the rise of Nazism in Germany . |
| 26 | I took up golf four years ago , while living in Northern Ireland , where club membership was not a problem . |
| 27 | That 's why I took up PE , training . |
| 28 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
| 29 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 30 | I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing . |