Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the 1986 English House Condition Survey , households 75+ only make up 10% of all households , but they occupy almost a third of dwellings lacking basic amenities and 16% of unfit dwellings . |
| 2 | By ignoring our impulses , we not only store up trouble for ourselves , but also relinquish our power , our ability to act . |
| 3 | To be honest , empty barrels just take up space on the |
| 4 | Their rural cousins , who still make up 75% of the population , scratch a living from the soil . |
| 5 | But what about the outcome of the usual monitoring visits — which still make up 80% of the subject assessor 's time ? |
| 6 | Does the governors ' report to parents ever pick up elements of dissatisfaction and ways in which this was addressed ? |
| 7 | Yesterday set up conditions for Milky Way , he wrote . |
| 8 | Later pick up track through caravan site but leave it at cattlegrid ( signposted Coast Path ) , descending to Branscombe Mouth . |
| 9 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 10 | However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) . |
| 11 | They often pick up stories in the national news . |
| 12 | Meals out eat up 20pc of nation 's food bill |
| 13 | Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent . |
| 14 | Thus many nurse educators now set up simulations in the nurse education centre or the ward which allow direct experience of practical nursing skills . |
| 15 | COMPUTERS often conjure up images of whirling tapes on giant machines , or of bespectacled precocious kids wrestling with incomprehensible maths . |
| 16 | what 's it here or er whatever or even pick up notes from Edinburgh people |
| 17 | He then set up house with not only Mary but also Claire ( as she now styled herself ) . |
| 18 | We could ‘ ave tea at Ma 's , and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right . ’ |
| 19 | Is it possible to have the fee reimbursed if you consequently take up employment/register with the employer organising the course ? |
| 20 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 21 | They then take up positions as if they were the people in the photograph . |
| 22 | They either brew up tea on a little gas stove beside their car , or pop into a coffee house for a bun and a flick through The Observer Book of Birds . |
| 23 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 24 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 25 | ‘ Never take up poker as a way of life — you 'd starve . |
| 26 | He would send notices of the book to his old school magazine and quietly pin up adverts for it in all the gentlemen 's clubs in London . |