Example sentences of "[vb pp] up some of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) . |
| 2 | Benny will certainly have picked up some of these things to examine them , and she 'll have absorbed the stuff through her fingertips . ’ |
| 3 | Now today because it 's a little windy we 've rolled up some of the sail out of the way to make it easier for you |
| 4 | As the corporations were wound up some of the houses passed into private ownership . |
| 5 | L : I was noticing — I was down by Queen Street or+the bottom of Hanover Street or somewhere + and they 've just cleaned up some of the buildings down there + and what a difference it makes + |
| 6 | In this chapter we have opened up some of the complex issues raised by the impact of the gospel on culture . |
| 7 | But as she led the way to her car — Harriet had used up some of her precious reserves of petrol for this expedition — there was something about her daughter 's manner that disturbed her . |
| 8 | It is quite possible that the expansion of the social services may have used up some of the labour that could have been absorbed by the manufacturing sector but there was no scarcity of labour as such in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 9 | Thames Valley Police have rounded up some of the world 's fastest cars to ram home the anti-speeding message . |
| 10 | But occasional forays by underwriters into unknown territory have thrown up some of the market 's most spectacular disasters — the 1,600 investors facing £305million of losses on Dick Outhwaite 's syndicate bear eloquent testimony to that . |
| 11 | But occasional forays by underwriters into unknown territory have thrown up some of the market 's most spectacular disasters — the 1,600 investors facing £305million of losses on Dick Outhwaite 's syndicate bear eloquent testimony to that . |