Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 2 | ICI has chosen not to invest in new HCFCs which have a small ozone depletion potential even though these represent a useful interim measure for speeding up CFC phase-out , preferring to concentrate on more lasting solutions . |
| 3 | While the remorseless Soviet military build-up continued to give Defence powerful arguments for keeping up Britain 's Defence forces , the failure of the British economy to grow in the enervating climate of the Welfare State progressively eroded Britain 's military strength . |
| 4 | After setting up NARCOG 's listening post in Larnaca , training the Cypriot police to use their UN-funded radio equipment , fitting out police boats ' and King Edmondo with satellite tracking gear and installing short-wave transmitters in Beirut and Larnaca for DEA intelligence traffic , Coleman had acquired something of a reputation in the area of advanced electronics . |
| 5 | Rudimentary Mafiosi , such as Franco Ambrosio , who was shortly to be a founding member of Jackie Oliver 's and Alan Rees 's Arrows team , an egregious former self-styled gun-runner and mercenary later gaoled for escaping up Holland Park Avenue throwing bags of cocaine out the windows of his car , floated around on the edge of those early South American season-openers , the former offering fantastic deals ( on which he rarely delivered ) and the latter procuring the kind of girls that racing drivers can relax with . |
| 6 | A tip for threading up Silver Reed or Knitmaster machines . |
| 7 | Six years of bringing up Charlotte and Luke with chicken wire tacked across inside their bedroom window , and a security system worthy of Alcatraz so that the parishioners who needed to get to you never could . |
| 8 | Finance officials have at last seen the logic of sprucing up Japan now . |
| 9 | Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ . |
| 10 | After two years of bingeing up Baldwin and bringing Neville along to find that even Neville loses his head , and sells the pass in the first fortnight of serious crisis . ’ |
| 11 | She discovered that she had no intention of making Sister Ignatia 's offer plain to Peter , and no intention of giving up Pricewell 's . |
| 12 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 13 | Will he urge on the Government of India the importance of allowing independent observers and visitors into that region , and of taking up Pakistan 's offer that independent observers should be stationed along the line of control , to deal with the movement of people and the problem of terrorism , as well as the human rights issue ? |
| 14 | I turned and looked at the subtly tarted , much breathed-upon 300 sitting at the kerb , then made a show of sizing up Yvonne . |
| 15 | Out on a train in Cambodia they had even talked lightly of setting up Oz again in London , even as Neville filed stories back to Richard Walsh and Oz in Sydney . |
| 16 | Our evidence was said to be flawed because : WE could be accused of setting up Marshall for an offence she would not have otherwise committed . |
| 17 | The initiative of setting up NICRA was very much that of Johnston , Coughlan and the Dublin Wolfe Tone Society . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking of laying up Rochester in dry dock . |
| 19 | Providing he can install a little discipline , the next governor may also be able to take the credit for cleaning up Arizona 's politics . |
| 20 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 21 | Taylor was one of the men who was supposed to be responsible for cleaning up Hollywood , but as the sordid details of his life came to light during the murder investigation , Will Hays , knowing he could trust no one in the movie business , placed spies everywhere . |
| 22 | The procedure for turning up Halsbury is much the same as for Statutes in Force . |
| 23 | On the first major privatisation — that of British Telecom — the right hon. Member for Hertsmere ( Mr. Parkinson ) gave the game away when he said : ’ I have decided against breaking up BT before offering it to the public . |
| 24 | Labour 's deputy leader Margaret Beckett immediately hit back , saying voters would never forgive his party for propping up Mr Major and paving the way for ‘ savage ’ public spending cuts . |
| 25 | Did he and Nicola Schreider fancy the rural life for a change , while Guy was temporarily involved with carving up Chesters ? |
| 26 | During the work the original opening between Cell-y-bedd and the church was discovered , thus explaining the entry in the Parish records in 1721 ‘ for shutting up Melangell 's door — 9 pence ’ ! |
| 27 | She would then have to think very seriously about giving up Alf and her relationship with Gail , the grandchildren and everyone in The Street . ’ |
| 28 | Claudius was forced to decide between giving up Britain altogether , abandoning the conquest of Caesar and the unfulfilled hopes of Augustus , or an armed invasion to secure the island and transform it into a province . |
| 29 | In the middle of the negotiations with the Iranians in October 1986 , North mentioned , laughing , that he had managed to talk to the Kuwaiti foreign minister about matters of mutual concern ‘ in my spare time between blowing up Nicaragua ’ . |
| 30 | Lucy gnawed her lower lip while she sat cursing her stupidity in bringing up Doreen 's name . |