Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , we nailed our box to the wall and propped up the front with a piece of wood , to make it stable enough to support the weight of our two owls . |
| 2 | A third group moved the coal cutting equipment and conveyor forward , and propped up the roof . |
| 3 | What they did n't realize was that granules of radioactive material left in the bottom of the dissolving vessel had evaporated the residual liquid and heated up the base . |
| 4 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 5 | Somehow the outside world had intruded and broken up the fabric of the tale . |
| 6 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 7 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 8 | Had he pressed on he might none the less have taken Newcastle , which contained many Jacobite sympathisers , but while he dallied , turning aside to Hexham , 15 miles [ 24 km ] west of the city , the Newcastle magistrates called out the militia and trained bands , mobilised a force of 700 tough keelmen , who worked on the lighters in the harbour , patched up the ancient city wall , though they lacked cannon to defend it , and bricked up the gates . |
| 9 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |
| 10 | Henry went up to the landing and sized up the lavatory . |
| 11 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
| 12 | I led up the awkward flake crack to a sitting stance on the Pedestal — a huge , flat topped flake stuck to the face — and called up the big guns . |
| 13 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 14 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 15 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 16 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 17 | As one farmer , who had participated in a number of courses , put it , ‘ it could assist the instructor and liven up the learning process ’ . |
| 18 | Choose a predominantly white or pastel-coloured suite , and liven up the room with colourful wall coverings , curtains or blinds and accessories , which are easier and cheaper to change than a bathroom suite . |
| 19 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 20 | The station had gone , too , and they 'd shut the line down and taken up the rails . |
| 21 | But last time I climbed it I started at Wall End Farm and headed up the ravine of Redacre Gill . |
| 22 | Minutes later it rammed a police car which tried to stop it and headed up the M5 . |
| 23 | The following morning they lit the oil-lamp in the shrine and loaded up the sheep . |
| 24 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 25 | Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer , Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district . |
| 26 | This model was fitted with radial tyres as standard and is currently on 205 x 16 Michelin XM + S. When jacked up the steering i-not stiff . |