Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Bukharin was preparing for a struggle with Stalin at this point can not be doubted and he was attempting to drum up international support among other parties of the Comintern . |
| 2 | Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices . |
| 3 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 4 | I shall raise the issue with my hon. Friend the Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , who is currently trying to drum up inward investment into Northern Ireland from north America . |
| 5 | His strenuous efforts to drum up any kind of interest in this product , already nicknamed the Foldie , has increasingly resembled a man trying to hammer-throw in a wardrobe . |
| 6 | This is really an essential part of the trial and sometimes may even result in two different driving systems being offered ; the problem may equally be solved by gradually opening up fuller access to the unit , in that way reconciling the two different kinds of need within a single driving system . |
| 7 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 8 | Using Britain as an example , Napoleon III and the economists who advised him believed that the introduction of free trade would help to strengthen the French economy , since only by opening up French industry to greater competition would it be galvanized into accepting new methods of production . |
| 9 | Even more at odds with the ‘ hands off ’ policies of Sir Keith Joseph is the list of policy objectives that Jenkin drew up last autumn as a guide to help civil servants . |
| 10 | Thus the company is uniquely placed to sum up current interest in alternative fuels for diesel and petrol engines . |
| 11 | Tom heated up some water on the range for the dirty dishes . |
| 12 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 13 | It is establishing and keeping up mutual understanding between an organisation and the people it wants to reach . |
| 14 | Keeping up permanent co-ordination between personality and outer appearance is as oppressive as never daring to appear in public without a set of fully matching clothes and accessories . |
| 15 | Provided a mains transformer has a single primary winding there should be no difficulty in wiring up this section of the supply . |
| 16 | Ronni dredged up some sanity from the depths of her half-stunned brain , detached her lips from Guido 's and pushed him away . |
| 17 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 18 | Mr Berry built up Blue Arrow from the small staff recruitment and travel operation he acquired in June 1982 into the world 's largest employment services group in September 1987 when it took over US company Manpower . |
| 19 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 20 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 21 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 22 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 23 | Hook up ORIGINAL cast off line of stitches . |
| 24 | But you have looked up some history for me ? |
| 25 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 26 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 27 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 28 | Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : — |
| 29 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 30 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |