Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Leon Brittan , the EC Commissioner responsible for competition policy , had said on Aug. 30 that the Commission would consider opening up membership of the unified financial services market to members of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) ; he stressed , however , the need for reciprocal liberalization in those countries ( Switzerland and most of Scandinavia imposing tight limits on the extent of foreign shareholdings in their domestic companies ) . |
| 2 | I 've even considered picking up litter in different parts of London — or even different parts of the country — to include in the archive , as historical specimens of the varied treatment meted out to ephemera : the flyers with the coupons torn out , worth 15 pence off the next purchase in high-street supermarkets ; the junk-food cartons , the ketchup sachets and tiny envelopes of pepper and salt outside the fast-food places , and , by contrast , the pristine copies of Vogue , the printed dress boxes , emblazoned with trademarks and royal coats of arms , tossed into the dustbins of Kensington . |
| 3 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 4 | This is n't a man I 've got pitching up hay to me , it 's a flipping machine ! ’ |
| 5 | In fact , I became so proficient — I used to go over and over them first thing in the mornings — that I finished pulling up Trevino on a couple of occasions . |
| 6 | But , er , other people start bringing up sort of problems with the French tax situation on such and such a structure of company or whatever , which is not anything we want to get involved with . |
| 7 | When next they start going up month by month , will the headlines trumpet , Good news for home owners ? |
| 8 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 9 | Recycle water — for example , put washing up water on the garden . |
| 10 | Mr Shamir has been hard at work consolidating his right-wing support and trying to win over independent conservatives ; he has reiterated his determination to keep the P L O out of any peace talks and has steadfastly refused to consider any deal which would involve giving up territory for peace . |
| 11 | I recommend taking up position at — ‘ |
| 12 | The ‘ beware ’ is aimed most urgently at women , the chosen workforce of the multinational corporations who have begun setting up shop in Western ‘ enterprise zones ’ . |
| 13 | Leopold Gratz , ( Socialist ) Foreign Minister in 1984-86 , was fined 450,000 schillings ( approximately US$40,000 ) after being convicted on Oct. 5 of bearing false witness in connection with the Lucona affair [ for details see pp. 38110 ; 38738 ] ; he had denied covering up evidence on the involvement of his friend Udo Proksch in the scandal , and announced that he would appeal . |
| 14 | At one stage , he considered closing up shop for good . |