Example sentences of "[verb] up a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he whistled up his cohorts after you 'd gone , ’ Sam complained , ‘ and they came with wet-suits and grappling irons and a heavy magnet and dredged up a lot of muck from the dock . |
| 2 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 3 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 4 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 5 | Which is more than can be said , perhaps , for some of the offerings labelled Panto that are currently mopping up a lot of customers . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 7 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 8 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've grown up a lot in the last two years , ’ she said quietly and I silently agreed with her . |
| 10 | The main thing was that we were picking up a lot of hawking know-how , even if we did look ridiculous . |
| 11 | On his release from prison in 1985 , Gusty Spence , the leader of the Shankill UVF and the man convicted of the Malvern St murder , was asked about Paisley 's role and he was frankly dismissive : ‘ I have no time for Paisley 's type of religious fervour or his politics but he had no involvement in re-forming the UVF though he stirred up a lot of tension at that time for his own ends . ’ |
| 12 | Shields recorded their first win of the season on a greasy pitch after soaking up a lot of pressure . |
| 13 | Note that this may conflict with requirements of efficiency given above for example , a chain of subroutines takes longer to obey than the expanded code and the liberal use of remark statements to aid readability uses up a lot of valuable memory . |
| 14 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 15 | ‘ Those hallucinogenics experiments certainly stirred up a lot of shit . ’ |
| 16 | CREAM cake king Chris Liveras has stirred up a lot of controversey since he decided to build a cake factory the Preston Farm site once earmarked for development by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 17 | We put up a lot with him ! |
| 18 | It 's not usual to make new partners put up a lot of cash . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The new seismic has shown up a lot of interesting fault trends in our northern block , which is a continuation of those successfully explored in other companies ’ areas , ’ Stephen said . |
| 20 | We 've cleaned up a lot of parts of our city . |
| 21 | I agree with you that Mrs Thatcher is a representative of her class , first and foremost , but I think the way she was treated showed up a lot of rather unpleasant things about the er the political movements which opposed her . |
| 22 | He 's bought up a lot of small UK firms in the past , mostly to close them down ; been the subject of a question in the House . |
| 23 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
| 24 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 25 | Nestle 's milk conjures up a lot of memories for me . |
| 26 | The voice was warm , too , as if it had soaked up a lot of sunshine . |
| 27 | We 've , we 've soaked up a lot of pressure without having too many goal attempts at us , and then we 've broke away and scored two goals ; the plan 's worked a treat and I was due to do something right . |
| 28 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 29 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 30 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |