Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the woodland in the valley is managed by the Forestry Commission , which has helped to draw up the new plan . |
| 2 | At his office in the stable block of a former count 's palace in north east Moscow , Grigoriev 's company , Vagrius , has helped set up the Task Force Against Piracy , a legal action fund to combat flagrant breaches of copyright which sees Western books and Russian editions illegally produced and sold . |
| 3 | Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one ! |
| 4 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 5 | Link welcomes new Burstwick correspondent who has agreed to take up the post from previous correspondent . |
| 6 | We want to keep moving up the table . |
| 7 | Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream . |
| 8 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 9 | Second , although the government has tried to open up the supply side to competition , barriers to entry still exist both in terms of medical personnel and hospital construction . |
| 10 | ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is . |
| 11 | In the first year of operation , NAB has begun to set up the essential third tier of its structure , namely study groups to examine and report upon specific subject areas and aspects of its operation . |
| 12 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 13 | Two months of treatment has failed to clear up the trouble , so Molby has had surgery and is not expected to return to action for another six weeks . |
| 14 | Despite the effects of recession and significant overcapacity in the industry down south , the team has managed to build up the business considerably over the past two years . |
| 15 | He sat still and his words seemed to come crawling up the sunlight , over the grass . |
| 16 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 17 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 18 | ‘ We put patriotism and self-sacrifice into them , and there is no doubt that after they have learnt a certain amount of that , ’ he explained as he outlined his strategy to the National Defence Association , ‘ they will feel bound to take up the defence in one form or another , should it be necessary , when the time comes . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't go after anything fancy , but somehow I seemed to keep muffing up the interviews . |
| 20 | We also hope to have started up the ‘ community club ’ by the time of the JFIT conference . |
| 21 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 22 | Both derive from a deep sense of grievance and resentment against those Western powers led by the United States which are seen to have carved up the world for their own convenience . |
| 23 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 24 | Frank will be going into more detail on these and our other businesses , which are all facing an uphill struggle , particularly in the U K and North America , both in deep recession and which you can see continue to make up the bulk of our markets . |
| 25 | I have no recollection of how I found my way there in the dark , but I do remember having to knock up the concièrge , who grumbled in just the style portrayed in the cinema . |
| 26 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 27 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 28 | ‘ And I 'm going to have to make up the cameras and equipment , too , because we do n't have any . ’ |
| 29 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 30 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |