Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] 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 | 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 ) . |
16 | But I mean of course they plugged me up with all sorts of things . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The bus would catch me up about halfway . ’ |
21 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
22 | Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Just appeals to him , hyping you up like that . |
25 | We 'll hang you up over this machine , teach you to respect it . ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | But he would n't do that now , he had n't picked her up for twelve years . |
28 | I caught him up at last . |
29 | He was beginning to wonder if they were n't already softening him up for some kind of a change . |
30 | See they build her up with this blood and she was alright then , you see . |