Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply it simply does n't serve a purpose for me to allow that division to open up . |
| 2 | The Home office has invented that story to cover up their own cock up . |
| 3 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 4 | Smokers really should take this opportunity to give up this addictive habit once and for all . |
| 5 | In 1812 Cuvier used this technique to break up the chain of being . |
| 6 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 7 | Reports were carried by Agence-France Presse on May 1 of heavy fighting around Saa'da involving Moslem tribes opposed to unity , and by the UK newspaper the Independent on May 12 suggesting that Saudi Arabia was fomenting this resistance to hold up the unity process [ but see p. 37266 for official Saudi position welcoming unification ] . |
| 8 | So I , I , I said I 'd ring him back and , I , this bloke 's supposed to be here before one he 'd got half hour to turn up if he 's not here at one I 'm gon na ring this other one and tell him he can do it . |
| 9 | ‘ Give me a few minutes to clean up and we 'll go to the Swan Inn . ’ |
| 10 | Inside her room , Mildred decided to get into bed for a few minutes to warm up . |
| 11 | You know I think Leicester are one of the er one of the real favourites in this Division to go up . |
| 12 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 13 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 14 | Use the information in this chapter to draw up your own advertising campaign for the shop you work in OR the shop of your dreams . |
| 15 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
| 16 | The Treasury Select Committee will have fun discussing the precise significance of that measure , which is another attempt to talk up the economy and persuade consumers that it is all right to spend now . |
| 17 | The Comintern , completely disregarding their past policy , called upon " all Communist Parties to make yet another attempt to set up the united front of struggle with the social democratic workers through the medium of the social democratic parties " . |
| 18 | She had obviously made some attempt to tidy up . |
| 19 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 20 | Do not they also draw attention to the willingness of some countries and some parties to sign up to measures that they have no intention of implementing ? |
| 21 | Now , what we 'll need to get you doing , is some exercise to strengthen up the muscle across there . |
| 22 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 23 | If your band 's sound is less strongly defined , then you may need some help to dream up a style and image Libraries are a good source of inspiration , and by browsing through the books and magazines on fashion you may get some ideas . |
| 24 | The Batband choose this moment to strike up with a counter attraction , and our Jeremy has a hard job making himself heard . |
| 25 | In strong soils these side effects may take some years to show up ; on poor land they can exhaust the humus very quickly with disastrous results . |
| 26 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 27 | Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place . |
| 28 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 29 | The gruesome ability of some individuals to take up a cannibalistic diet is , in evolutionary terms , a sensible solution to the problem of food shortage in a rapidly disappearing pond . |
| 30 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |