Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 2 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 3 | prop up the line where our sheets are flagging . |
| 4 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 5 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 6 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 7 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 8 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 9 | So ten years later and the man comes back , the ma they cos they 've never come and checked on them they just sling the food through a but open up the cell where the man had Samantha Fox and millions of little kids come running out , all different ages and sizes , millions of them . |
| 10 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 11 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 12 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 13 | But will they tidy up the roads where they have not actually been working , and where their vehicles have caused ‘ disruption ’ ? |
| 14 | He slithers up the slope where he first came down . |
| 15 | It can help to speed up the work where an investigation involves the results from several different cases . |
| 16 | Uses in childcare ; its mainly medicinal role includes : bathing cuts and grazes ; dabbing calamine lotion on heat spots ; stopping up the ears when the child has earache ; but also stuffing the toes of new shoes which are bought , deliberately , slightly too large ( lower socio-economic groups ) . |
| 17 | The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose . |
| 18 | There is no need to call up the tort where the legal wrong procured is itself a tort against the plaintiff , for the procurer is then himself liable as a joint tortfeasor ; nor , it seems , is there a tort of inducing a breach of trust , because a person who procures such an act becomes himself , by the doctrines of equity , liable as a trustee . |
| 19 | Should she pick up the baby whenever it cries or leave it until it settles of its own accord ? |
| 20 | Tonight it 's my turn ; he 'll expect me to take up the story where he left off , but I 've no intention of doing that . |
| 21 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 22 | We take up the story where Section 17.7 left off . |
| 23 | CATS , wrote London 's Daily Star , ran up the curtains when the BBC broadcast too realistic a warning to pet-owners against the use of fireworks . |
| 24 | Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time . |
| 25 | Brown pulled a goal back for Haverhill after 65 minutes , but –––Norwich sewed up the points when Gill scored their third . |
| 26 | If so , this week Civic Trust is organising BT Environment Week , when adults and children everywhere are encouraged to tackle a practical project and brighten up the places where they live , work or spend leisure time . |