Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 2 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 3 | A cash book should be maintained for each bank account to record every item of income and expenditure , analyse these into appropriate costs and back them up with supporting documentation . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 5 | This woman who , who keeps phoning me up about all this oil pollution on her land . |
| 6 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 7 | To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck . |
| 8 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 9 | Pick me up at two forty-five . |
| 10 | ‘ Pick me up at eleven , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Pick me up at half past four . |
| 12 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |
| 13 | Caird specialises in buying small waste management and landfill companies , integrating them and bringing them up to existing and proposed European standards on waste disposal . |
| 14 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 15 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 16 | Send me up to 100 words bout a book , paper , or individuals ' work which has influenced you ( you may have another 50 word if you go to say what it inspired you to do ) . |
| 17 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
| 18 | To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small . |
| 19 | His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland . |
| 20 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 21 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 23 | Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him . |
| 24 | The revised constitutional package focused on ( i ) fiscal adjustment measures including , critically , a new simplified tax system to broaden the tax base in order to raise an extra US$10,000 million per annum ; ( ii ) the lifting of banking secrecy in cases of proven tax evasion ; ( iii ) new mechanisms for dealing with state debts to the central government ; ( iii ) the ending of government monopolies in such areas as oil and telecommunications , opening them up to private domestic and ( more controversially ) foreign capital investment . |
| 25 | He caught himself up in horrified confusion . |
| 26 | Just appeals to him , hyping you up like that . |
| 27 | We 'll hang you up over this machine , teach you to respect it . ’ |
| 28 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 29 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
| 30 | I caught him up at last . |