Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said you ca n't envisage or set up emergency procedures for anything as as drastic as what happened there that night . |
| 2 | Any EC national may now reside in any member state to seek or take up employment , accompanied by his family ( Directive 68/360/EC ) , establish firms or provide services ( 73/148 ) and remain in that territory after having been employed in that State ( 70/1251 , 72/194 ) . |
| 3 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 4 | It 's time to put up or shut up Councillor . |
| 5 | Do n't ignore this legal obligation , otherwise you could be ordered to pull down or open up work for inspection at your expense . |
| 6 | What you got ta do is , each card , if you they ar the person in front of you asks the co the question and if you get it right you get that card and each card has got a letter on it and you got ta try and make up sex maniac . |
| 7 | But I would try and give up sugar altogether , but I do n't know . |
| 8 | David and Greg were still at the front of the plane , so , beckoning to the white-haired man , she said , ‘ Would you please come here and keep up pressure on this man 's leg ? |
| 9 | Reaching for his case , Eddie produced an iron to replace and smarten up dog eared lables , using it to smooth them back onto the sample . |
| 10 | It demanded interest and commitment on the part of the workers to try and set up respite fostering or other more integrated arrangements as an alternative . |
| 11 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 12 | no cold cisterns and pipes in the loft to freeze and take up space |
| 13 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 14 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 15 | And we 'll go out and pick up aunty Jean about twenty to eight . |
| 16 | Whenever there is a chance , she and her partners will emerge and stir up trouble . |
| 17 | The chief minister of Sarawak , Abdul Taib Mahmud , said that the campaigners had " no right to come and stir up trouble in the state " . |
| 18 | Premiums are beginning to be waived , and three month rent holidays are being offered to try and speed up movement . |