Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 2 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 3 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 4 | Party chiefs hope to unite Tory rebels who want to hold up ratification with opposition MPs who see the Government motion as vote of confidence in John Major . |
| 5 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 6 | You do not necessarily need to take up space by publishing them with the competition but they must be readily available on request . |
| 7 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 8 | The Tories might have got away with that but the latest revelation that the Home Office trawled through 25-year-old confidential files to try to dig up dirt on Mr Clinton is as outrageous as it is mind-boggling . |
| 9 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 10 | In August 1988 the CME and Reuters agreed to open up Globex to other exchanges , MATIF , etc . |
| 11 | And so the Devil is quite happy as long as we dream our lives away , or become antiquarian , seeking to dredge up history in order that we can live out our lives in a museum of our own making . |
| 12 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 13 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 14 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 15 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 16 | A narrow boat and butty took over three-quarters of an hour to negotiate the locks , however , and an inclined plane was eventually built to speed up traffic by lifting boats in movable docks . |
| 17 | Charles the Bald was presumably not seeking to stir up trouble in Corbie . |
| 18 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 19 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
| 20 | In the preceding months the PS had sought to step up pressure on the government ; it had joined with the PCP in tabling a censure motion in parliament in October 1989 attacking the government for its low ethical standards ; although the motion was defeated , attention was again turned to the then Finance Minister , Miguel Ribeiro Cadilhe , following allegations early in the year of his financial misconduct [ see p. 36945 ] . |
| 21 | I 've promised to go up country to a bull ranch a friend of mine called Barbosa runs . |
| 22 | In the Wessex Dairies case , it was found that on the last day of his employment as a milkman the defendant , whilst on his round , informed customers that he would soon cease to be employed by the plaintiffs , that he was going to set up business on his own and could supply them with milk . |
| 23 | Captain Margaret is the owner of the privateer The Broken Heart with which he intends to open up trade in the Spanish Main with the Indians whom he hopes to rescue from the harsh exploitation of Spanish settlers . |
| 24 | He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says . |
| 25 | I suppose you 've got to weigh up sot of various . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |
| 27 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 28 | For example , in 1987 , a Public Accounts Committee report ( 1986–7c , paras 20 , 44 ) claimed that ‘ a major effort ’ was needed to speed up implementation of the FMI . |
| 29 | The snout is used to stir up mud on the river floor , to expose worms , crustaceans and other small organisms on which the fish feeds . |
| 30 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |