Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
| 2 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 3 | The National Insurance contribution complications would be avoided as there would be no need to pay directors ' salaries as the individual partners would rely on their own shares of profit as their source of earnings and the company partner would only be a vehicle for building up capital . |
| 4 | Topics in the talk included alternative training methods , particularly for building up leg strength . |
| 5 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 6 | The Faulks Committee would have done better to concentrate on methods for speeding up libel hearings . |
| 7 | He blamed politicians and some sections of the media for whipping up anxiety about mortgage repossessions and said that for his company marital breakdown rather than poverty was still the main reason for such repossessions . |
| 8 | But instead he is talking about keeping up research and development on space-based systems — which is exactly what was being done before . |
| 9 | If the current GATT proposals for opening up world trade for agriculture were inaugurated , he said , they would force Third World farmers to industrialise their production or be " washed away as if by a catastrophic flood " . |
| 10 | ‘ He set it up I just ran interference for him trying to keep your people looking the wrong way with talk about opening up Winter Garden again . |
| 11 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 12 | Shortly after setting up home he ran into a series of mishaps . |
| 13 | The agreement has quashed speculation that the line could quit the port after setting up container services here 24 years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ So what if the Bishop 's door is open , ’ he persisted , ‘ after locking up time ? |
| 15 | The language was incorporated into a program called Filetab , which was designed for looking up information held on file in mainframe computers . |
| 16 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 17 | The 5000 desktop model has a memory checking function for picking up memory errors , while the 5900 server can make use of a large-capacity disk array with up to eight disk drives . |
| 18 | The focus of this is about fourteen inches from the centre and if you put a microphone here when this this thing is outside it 's ideal for picking up bird song . |
| 19 | It had been this problem which had led to the complex arrangements for picking up Ruggiero on his release . |
| 20 | An old bucket kept just outside the stable is handy for picking up manure every time you go in with your horse and helps to save money on bedding . |
| 21 | It 's a , it 's a flow rate , it 's rate of using up electricity , watts . |
| 22 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 23 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 24 | The Council is very aware of the pressures placed upon voluntary officials in respect of drawing up development plans and budgets , and preparing annual submissions for grant . |
| 25 | In February 1859 the tsar put the conservatively inclined Main Committee into cold storage and created " Editing Commissions " under Rostovtsev for the purpose of drawing up legislation . |
| 26 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 27 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 28 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 29 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 30 | There was widespread opposition to the Household Means Test , and Labour representatives occupied positions on the Public Assistance committees , in the hope of nudging up relief provisions . |