Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 2 | picking up the staff costs there was some concern about putting that in there because we were awaiting the result of the T S G settlement . |
| 3 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 4 | That being so , suppose we have another member of staff who is equally as effective as a teacher but who does not work up the lecture notes in the same way : could we not say that his or her teaching is integrated with research to the same degree ? |
| 5 | You do in a swimming pool because what happens to you , it makes you keep up the top does n't it ? |
| 6 | Bringing up the fledglings necessitates a great deal of work in finding food , and polygyny , as we have seen , is possible only when food is exceptionally abundant under r conditions . |
| 7 | What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . |
| 8 | For example , in messages like : Your coat 's on fire The wing 's breaking up The radio 's gone wrong Your uncle 's died probably the majority of English speakers would place the tonic stress on the subject noun , though it is difficult to see how this is more important than the last lexical word in each of the sentences . |
| 9 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |
| 10 | And if just blowing up the tyres means you have a tiny bit more thre er tread on the road and it is a tiny bit . |
| 11 | The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered . |
| 12 | Only the day before mum-of-two Angela celebrated her 32nd wedding anniversary with husband Tony , 54 , boss of the company that dreamed up the PG Tips chimp adverts . |
| 13 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 14 | Clean up the pipe threads with a wire brush and reassemble , after wrapping white ptfe tape round the threads in a clockwise direction . |
| 15 | It 's very important that when parents split up the child has the opportunity to know where both parents are living and how to keep in touch with both of them . |
| 16 | Well we can get to grips with it at this meeting when you talk amongst yourselves er as to how you divide up the base accounts yeah ? |
| 17 | Later dicta leave it quite uncertain whether A can do so where C 's refusal to deliver up the goods amounts to conversion , and they are decidedly against such a view where C's conduct in obstructing A 's entry does not ; and this , too , even where the goods come on C 's premises without any tort on A's part . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |
| 19 | Setting up the service provides for the first time a national intelligence-gathering operation on organised crime and criminals . |
| 20 | Setting up the tool requires only the two spanners provided as standard accessories . |
| 21 | Much of the work involved in setting up the business has been research into the complex safety requirements . |
| 22 | It was the custom of the train crews to make up the fish trains from empty stock located in the New Clee sidings , between Grimsby and Cleethorpes . |
| 23 | When the loan has been fully paid up the lender has to reassign the house to the borrower . |