Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 2 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 3 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 4 | Sammy scampered leisurely in front of him while he stopped intermittently to pick up sweet chestnuts on the way . |
| 5 | Starting in 1967 , we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers , but with little success . |
| 6 | She tried again to stand up . |
| 7 | Oliver seemed suddenly to wake up . |
| 8 | She ate simply to keep up her strength . |
| 9 | TWO-YEAR jail sentences and unlimited fines will face Scottish knife-carriers under Scottish Office plans announced yesterday to toughen up the proposed law . |
| 10 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 11 | I finished my lager and walked outside to wind up Armstrong . |
| 12 | So ‘ every brewer and his auntie ’ , as one nablab marketer puts it , rushed headlong to brew up — many with foul-tasting and ill-researched products that consumers quickly and rightly rejected . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom , for example , the peerage began seriously to take up directorships of commercial companies in the 1880s : by 1896 directorships were held by 167 members of the House of Lords . |
| 15 | This was especially important as they worked together to draw up strategies to implement a media education programme in Africa . |
| 16 | Pregnant women and grandmothers kept the children entertained with puppet shows at a safe distance from the tips , while others worked together to pile up , burn and bury the rubbish . |
| 17 | Prodded by de Gaulle , Pinay created a secret committee , chaired by Rueff , which worked quickly to draw up a plan . |
| 18 | When the owners could no longer cope with the interest payments and pressure of their business , having tried to find a buyer for two years , they decided simply to close up . |
| 19 | After the success of the centenary festival it was hoped to hold the sing outdoors again , and for the 101st event in 1987 the committee worked hard to set up the staging and prepare the venue ; but a cloudburst just an hour before it was due to start necessitated a change of plan . |
| 20 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |
| 21 | I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies . |
| 22 | I climbed down through the sails , then went below to tie up my wound . |
| 23 | Then I told Springsteen not to invite any strangers in , or any of his friends for a party , put my flying jacket on and jogged downstairs to wind up Armstrong . |
| 24 | Decisively outvoted , Hoare went away to think up an alternative plan . |
| 25 | I thought I was perfectly all right , and then it chose yesterday to catch up with me again suddenly … you 've been quite right to ignore it ; it 's helped , truly . " |
| 26 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 27 | He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts . |
| 28 | The easiest way into a flat with aluminium frame windows is to use the little flap window at the top — the ventilator , only big enough for an organ grinder 's monkey , but easily opened with a knife , slipped underneath to prise up the catch . |
| 29 | On Aug. 8-9 , 1989 , Parliament voted unanimously to set up a " fact-finding commission " to investigate the circumstances surrounding the purchase of 40 US-made F-16C and 40 French Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft [ see p. 34637 ] as well as of 300 French Magic-2 missiles . |
| 30 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |