Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 2 | He either has to give up music , or organize live-in help of some kind . |
| 3 | No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home . |
| 4 | Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help . |
| 5 | His doctor should arrange physiotherapy to teach him and his carers the right exercises to build up strength and co-ordination . |
| 6 | The supplier needs to build up awareness , understanding and interest in his products in the mind of the gatekeeper , whether this be a buying department , technical specialist , or both . |
| 7 | To change her body shape she needs to do calorie-burning aerobic exercises , like those on home video tapes , and swimming but first she needs to build up strength and endurance in her muscles . |
| 8 | Now Betterware plans to set up shop elsewhere in Europe , with Spain the likely first stop . |
| 9 | Nakane 's work has a more voluntaristic approach , but even she writes about the assertive techniques that management uses to build up company identification of workers . |
| 10 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 11 | A willingness members to use district plans to back up county plans and in some cases to actually fund county wants to approve them . |
| 12 | His hobby is walking and he plans to take up bike riding . |
| 13 | Sales will be direct and via existing third-party distributors , though ICL plans to sign up specialist Unix and office software VARs in all regions . |
| 14 | UN acts to set up war crimes court |
| 15 | Captain Margaret is the owner of the privateer The Broken Heart with which he intends to open up trade in the Spanish Main with the Indians whom he hopes to rescue from the harsh exploitation of Spanish settlers . |
| 16 | It also intends to set up city technical colleges funded by industry in an effort to increase parental choice , and this is seen as a way of reducing the power of the LEAs . |
| 17 | The technology exists to clean up truck and bus exhaust and JM has access to it through its controlling share of Svenska Emissionsteknik in Sweden . |
| 18 | From one angle , it could be merely resting , yet from another , the crushed corpse seems to sum up man 's relationship with flies perfectly . |
| 19 | It aims to set up observation posts to secure the area against invasion by miners , settlers or ranchers , conduct health and vaccination programmes among indigenous people , and carry out environmental surveys of the forest . |
| 20 | He aims to mop up corruption , overhaul the politicised and ineffectual judiciary , and bypass political pussyfooting in fighting terrorism and drugs traffic . |
| 21 | US agrees to speed up protection of species |
| 22 | It does it if it wishes to force up interest rates . |
| 23 | Yeah he tries to make up crap jokes . |
| 24 | Last winter 's storm damage pay outs have battered profits for the big insurance companies , and that threatens to push up house cover premiums . |
| 25 | But Novacek kept up the pressure throughout the fourth and in a nail-biting final game he unleashed a pair of winning service returns to set up victory . |