Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 2 | One of Roscoe 's ideas was a windmill plough , whose sails would actually churn up the bog . |
| 3 | Even if you save and retrieve the file , it wo n't free up the memory . |
| 4 | Yes , when you erase something , it does n't free up the memory straight away . |
| 5 | This procedure , carried out each generation , could tie up the land indefinitely . |
| 6 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 7 | Yeah , cos , the solder just li links into the big hole and you do n't want it cos it can screw up the size of the hole then . |
| 8 | Joe 's reducing a dislocated thumb if he can screw up the courage , and Amy 's changing a dressing . |
| 9 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 10 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 11 | Tomorrow they will pack up the equipment and depart , leaving that desert town as they found it , intact . |
| 12 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 13 | He knew he had the tournament won , but he was so high he could n't even line up the putt . |
| 14 | You can just count up the number of rooms that you 're planning to do , ca n't you ? |
| 15 | Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company . |
| 16 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 17 | Although you can scale up the size and shape of the leaves and flowers , the huge numbers that have to be used to fill the picture mean that the overall effect is lost , and you can not appreciate the beauty of each flower as there are so many of them . |
| 18 | I will then hang up the telephone swear loudly and search out those long unused tins of AC lacquer . |
| 19 | Walking down Oxford Street in August , watching the tourists snap up the pirate editions of ‘ Frankie Says Arm The Unemployed ’ I decided this was the final triumph of the ‘ new pop ’ , the eclipse of content by form . |
| 20 | Vice-president , international operations Terry Booth will head up the operation . |
| 21 | The lads will soon zip up the League with some of that stuff , know what I mean ? |
| 22 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 23 | To a school librarian , the term might conjour up the image of compiling a computerized catalouge with details of resources held in the school library . |
| 24 | The Government , however , is likely to press ahead with legislation this autumn which will tighten up the law on secondary action . |
| 25 | THE CONCEPT of a Squatters ' Ball might conjure up the image of crusties in black tie and taffeta but this is n't yer average kind of ball . |
| 26 | Do they conjure up the impression that children are engaged in some form of pre-Victorian drudgery at school ? |
| 27 | Should he lock up the house ? |
| 28 | An alternative approach would break up the organisation according to some other criteria but implement each section in turn and allow for integration later . |
| 29 | Subtle shades of beige from the Crown Expressions range have been ragged to cleverly break up the colour which is picked up in the marble fireplace , pale loose cotton covers and unbleached cotton curtains . |
| 30 | Apart from legislation which might break up the unity of imperial law , some colonial legislation was likely to affect the interests of people in Britain directly . |