Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jahangir 's irritation was with the refereeing which , he reckoned , had hindered him throughout the tournament and yesterday he said it ‘ made it hard for me to catch up a couple of points ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Putt might want a stall cleared out and fresh straw put in for some company she 's expecting , or she 'll want me to hitch up a carriage so she can go visiting . |
| 3 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 4 | This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis . |
| 5 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |
| 6 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel pointed to the entrance to the station and the mousy man signed to me to pick up the case . |
| 8 | ‘ You want me to pick up the tab . ’ |
| 9 | They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’ |
| 10 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 11 | The reason for the bird 's big feet is that it needs a large shovel with which to pile up the mound of compost , earth and leaf litter in which the fowl buries and incubates its single very large egg . |
| 12 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 13 | The strongest support of all for the Bill came from my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) , who had a range of interesting ways in which to stoke up the legislation to higher and higher levels of severity . |
| 14 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |
| 15 | Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . |
| 16 | ‘ The climate makes this a good place in which to bring up a child . |
| 17 | As a result , the public , the press and MPs are often starved of the material with which to make up a counter-argument . |
| 18 | If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway . |
| 19 | ‘ They are trying to sling mud at me to cover up the defeat by Peru , ’ he said , rising to his own defence and pointing a brave if belated finger back at the SFA . |
| 20 | When you 've finished with the reptiles , I want you to round up a group of humans . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not asking you to write up the interview . |
| 22 | This option enables you to set up a Charge Code for use with LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 24 | I want somebody whose sitting there listening to the radio sort of er just relaxed and I I just want you to pick up the phone and ring . |
| 25 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 26 | A little background knowledge will make you more confident and help you to draw up a list of really relevant questions . |
| 27 | I will wish you to draw up a deed of gift in Mr Beckenham 's favour when once probate is granted , if you please . ’ |
| 28 | I want you to draw up the will exactly as I 've said , and let me have it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 29 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 30 | You might argue that such an investigation , though time-consuming , would enable you to build up the picture you want . |