Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A secret report obtained by The Northern Echo says the authority has earmarked just £590 for publicity and advertising in a bid to drum up more visitors . |
| 2 | Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices . |
| 3 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 4 | His strenuous efforts to drum up any kind of interest in this product , already nicknamed the Foldie , has increasingly resembled a man trying to hammer-throw in a wardrobe . |
| 5 | Why do n't you go back to your own surgery and try to drum up some work ? ’ |
| 6 | She expected Nicole to name a restaurant , but instead she named the hotel where she was staying , one of the more expensive hotels in London , and they arranged to meet up that afternoon , in her room . |
| 7 | To sum up this chapter 's survey of what people believe about sleep and dreaming — what seem to be the self-evident truths — it must be admitted that there is very little consensus . |
| 8 | To sum up this section , it is argued that a purely economic approach can not provide a comprehensive treatment of financial market regulation , or any part thereof . |
| 9 | To sum up this section : the Bacon and Eltis thesis that the public sector crowded out the manufacturing sector can not be substantiated . |
| 10 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 11 | That 's not a problem that I can actually deal with er but Wales certainly er you know takes the sort of interest in Europe that we have seen from most of the Conservative speakers er in trying to sum up this debate you have to refer to them er of not being able to show , there 's a definite sort of anti European theme coming through from most of the speakers from the back benches who 've chosen to take part in this debate tonight from the other side and it 's difficulty to avoid summing up the debate without some reference to the points that they have made which is in complete contrast to the attitude that we have erm in Wales er towards Europe and that we are . |
| 12 | I 'll have to stand up all day Friday |
| 13 | But you wanted to come up this way . |
| 14 | Toying with that idea started a train of thought about some of the other activities probably open to super-beings , which led me to conjure up some images of myself with Sergia , the Ardakkean , minus her costume , in the Orgitunnel . |
| 15 | There will be moves to tighten up this part of the bill in the Commons to try to stop some of the waste imports from countries which can dispose of them but find it politically expedient to export them . |
| 16 | An inability to work up any enthusiasm for an Everton attack . |
| 17 | We 're trying to work up some passion for the pageant . |
| 18 | Tell the Constable to lock up these vagrants overnight — the whole pack of them . |
| 19 | Regarded as a favourite for the Whitbread this September , New Zealand Endeavour 's 14-strong crew are also going to limber up this summer with a bash at the Fastnet race in August . |
| 20 | Just my dainty little hankie will be enough to clean up that kind of a smeared speck . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Someone will always need to clean up that house , ’ she had responded gloomily and ambiguously . |
| 22 | A YEAR after the Exxon Valdez spilt its sticky cargo along the shores of Prince William Sound , the main oil-shipping countries are locked in bitter battle over how to pay to clean up such incidents . |
| 23 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to clean up this morning . |
| 25 | They 're soft on baby 's skin yet strong enough to clean up any job . |
| 26 | NRA officials were making every effort to clean up any oil slicks left trapped in pools , he added . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend knows that the NRA has done sterling work to clean up those rivers . |
| 28 | It was , of course , one thing to talk up such confidence , either in Saigon or in Washington , but quite another whether it would be believed . |
| 29 | ‘ I simply ca n't understand why it was necessary to dredge up this story before the whole world , ’ assistant trainer , Leonty Goncharenko , said . |
| 30 | That 's what we mean , that 's why we 're What do you say , to consider for the to pick up many details . |