Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to sum up their philosophy perfectly , but were there any other reasons for the choice ? |
| 2 | The prosecution was allowed to sum up its evidence in secret hearing as part of it had been given in camera . |
| 3 | Winston Churchill was to sum up his appraisal in a contemptuous phrase : ‘ He came , he saw , he capitulated . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If you had to sum up our philosophy in a few words , it would be : ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ , ’ says Margaret . |
| 5 | These would be commercial travellers , wanting to write up their order books in peace . |
| 6 | There is no " one best way " to write up your project ; we all have our tried and preferred methods ( see Chapter 11 on better college writing ) . |
| 7 | As I sat down to write up my diary a brick arrived through my sitting room window . |
| 8 | Smiling to herself , she began to write up his case , then , suddenly , she heard the bell ring at the door of the waiting-room . |
| 9 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 10 | One forced him to stand up his fiancée Mary Todd at their first planned wedding in 1841 . |
| 11 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Sophie 's got a slight chip off her front tooth , ’ the other girl said , reaching forward to pull up her twin 's lip . |
| 13 | Fumblingly , shaking with excitement , I struggled to pull up my tracksuit trousers , half praying , half whispering : Wait , Lawrence . |
| 14 | So no changes from Greg Downs tomorrow , and United need to shake up their home form because Doncaster are no pushovers . |
| 15 | But then I got another one sewed it backed on sewed it back on and now I 've got two balls full of sperm ready to come up your Mum tonight . |
| 16 | Willy used to come from school and she used to come up me mum 's house with a , so could have a suck of the tit he would 've come from school and you 'd expect him the night at me mam 's house |
| 17 | He strained to conjure up her face and her voice , but they had vanished , as completely as though the memory had been cut out of his brain . |
| 18 | Perhaps I would be able to conjure up his image while indulging myself with my pie and peas and a pint . |
| 19 | Dr Williams has also taken his campaign to the Kennel Club , and I feel he is in no small way responsible for having persuaded that eminent body to tighten up its act . |
| 20 | There was nothing more he could say : all that remained was to turn from her , pick up his bundle of clothes and hurry to catch up his father and Mr Bryant , who were already striding away down to the harbour . |
| 21 | One man managed to catch up his dog , but the other dog was well locked on to its hare . |
| 22 | " At the bell " , which is somewhere in the region of two months — not weeks — before the date of the examination , you should start to work up your pace gradually and comfortably towards the final three-hour tests . |
| 23 | Prom there he was to work up his cover as a rubber man and make the contacts that would get him into Germany . |
| 24 | Today 's issue is perhaps a landmark of sorts , the 400th issue of Unigram.X to roll off the presses ( or to scroll up your screen for electronic subscribers ) . |
| 25 | Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing . |
| 26 | For two weeks , while he worked with his people to patch up his earldom , Thorfinn heard no news he could trust . |
| 27 | It 's the 5th time in 4 years that Margaret Jebbit has had to clean up her kitchen after flooding . |
| 28 | Looks like most British retailers have yet to clean up their act . |
| 29 | She had fallen foul of the Gorbachev reforms when a new KGB chief was appointed to clean up their act . |
| 30 | Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act . |