Example sentences of "up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that 's the fir , and you ring up hairdressers and |
| 2 | Get on the phone and phone up Currys and say I 've got this model freezer |
| 3 | The player has to smash up opponents . |
| 4 | Maybe the powers that be have been only interested in cleaning up opponents . |
| 5 | Strategists pinned up maps . |
| 6 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 7 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 8 | Provide her with drills , preferably on tape , to which she can listen while feeding the baby or cutting up vegetables . |
| 9 | In the Forest of Dean the verderers sat with the deputy Constable of St Briavels to hold attachment courts at Kensley every six weeks ; fines were imposed for hunting with long bows , and for offences against the vert such as cutting great branches , rooting up hollies , hawthorns and hazels , and collecting ‘ Oke-cornes ’ . |
| 10 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |
| 11 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 12 | what 's it here or er whatever or even pick up notes from Edinburgh people |
| 13 | There 's a mutilated notes department as well that you can send really screwed up notes to . |
| 14 | He would meddle with fishing nets , pull up anchors and tow boats , tease dogs and tow swimmers . |
| 15 | A local volunteer centre or Age Concern group should be able to match up talents with projects that need them . |
| 16 | Future research will examine in detail the views of clients and seek to demonstrate how effective management systems can be designed to reflect the strengths , weaknesses and aspirations of the people who make up solicitors ' firms . |
| 17 | The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers , and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet . |
| 18 | What they do , they look they look around and they weigh up up pros and cons up , and it it 's like these insurance brokers , they ring all over to buy cheapest insurance for you , well , that 's what Allied Dunbar are doing . |
| 19 | After chalking up debts of ¥500 billion ( $3.5 billion ) , Tokyo-based EIE is being rescued by five large Japanese banks . |
| 20 | In this way , people lose their virginity , experiment with drink or drugs , run up debts , consider divorce and even vote for political parties they swore they would never support . |
| 21 | Eventually Gouzenko ran up debts of $153,000 which were partly settled by the sale of his book and film rights . |
| 22 | Angry at being separated from Jeanne , Modigliani spent much of his time drinking in a windowless little bar where local artists met , where he drank and ran up debts . |
| 23 | ‘ She was running up debts , and when her full-time employment ceased not only did she have her alcohol problem but also had a number of clothing clubs pursuing her . ’ |
| 24 | They were warned of the danger of giving credit — or too much credit at any rate — to mostly illiterate other ranks who were here today and gone tomorrow , and allowing them to run up debts which they had not the slightest chance , or intention , of paying . |
| 25 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |
| 26 | Intrum Justitia — latin for ‘ Justice for All ’ — employs 1,600 people to chase up debts on the doorsteps . |
| 27 | EAST 17 star Anthony Mortimer ran up debts of more than £2,000 in a bid to get a record deal for his band . |
| 28 | Many will have committed sexual offences that other prisoners find abhorrent ; some will have been informers who helped the police in the hope of obtaining a shorter sentence and still others may have built up debts inside prison that they can not repay . |
| 29 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 30 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |