Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 2 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 3 | As I said , it is a pleasure to speak in the debate , despite the rhetoric and the attempt to whip up the masses outside the House by saying that the Labour party comprises anti-patriotic pacifists . |
| 4 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 5 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 6 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 7 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 8 | It plans to fell some of the older trees alongside the lakes to open up the views down the valley . |
| 9 | The cost was indeed so great that there were not even enough rich and unsuitable candidates to buy up the nominations . |
| 10 | A shift from a presidential system to that of a Prime Minister and Cabinet would make it easier for parties to divide up the rewards of victory between their various factions ( as illustrated by the Japanese model ) . |
| 11 | IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals . |
| 12 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 13 | After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings . |
| 14 | He told the Guardian that he believed senior management took deliberate steps to hush up the dangers . |
| 15 | Now she 's gone there 'll be one less mouth to feed , one less mouth to eat up the profits . |
| 16 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 17 | Concern was expressed over the failure of Cala Homes to make up the roads to serve their new houses . |
| 18 | The New Zealand ‘ open ’ adoption approach has not used research to follow up the parties involved beyond the initial years following placement , and the children involved in the arrangement are yet to be interviewed . |
| 19 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 20 | SPECTACLE TO LIGHT UP THE SKIES … |
| 21 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 22 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 23 | Those persistent but slightly fattening habits which are the key to your weight problem could be : having ‘ densely packed ’ calories at meals ( that means having a lot of fat , either visible such as butter on your bread or invisible like butter in a cake ) ; snacking in between meals , especially if those snacks include cream , alcohol and sugar ; and not expending energy with exercise to use up the calories . |
| 24 | ( Serve with plenty of Greek or pitta bread to mop up the sauces and a green salad . ) |
| 25 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |
| 26 | ‘ But I followed orders , did all the work to build up the muscles and feel great . |
| 27 | We have also set up a couple of microphones in the real of the hall to break up the echoes which would otherwise bounce off that wall . ’ |
| 28 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 29 | The original trigger for the stories was a note sent to clients by Merrill Lynch & Co analyst Daniel Mandresh , in which he said he believed that IBM plans to cut as many as 40,000 jobs this year , which would require yet another charge of about $1,000m to make up the provisions short-fall . |
| 30 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |