Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 2 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 3 | Have you considered the harm you may be causing to people , tearing up the past in this way ? |
| 4 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 5 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 6 | Top up the level in the bucket to five gallons with cold water . |
| 7 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 8 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 9 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 10 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 11 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 12 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 13 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 14 | so then the housekeeper phoned up the doctor in October |
| 15 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 16 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 17 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 18 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 19 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 20 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 21 | Here 's an end to worrying about totting up the calories in food and wondering whether you are eating the right thing . |
| 22 | but you , you 've , you build up the strength in yourself and believe that your , your in vulnerable and then to find out that you are vulnerable , it really scary |
| 23 | Warm up the oil in a cup , standing in hot water ( either buy a sachet of hair treatment oil , or use almond oil ) . |
| 24 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 25 | I used up the film in my two cameras before following Mick inside . |
| 26 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 27 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 28 | Line up the shot in the viewfinder as before , press the camera button again and away you go on shot two , still keeping the camcorder as steady as you can . |
| 29 | Simply line up the shelf in position , using a spirit level , before permanent fixing for a really professional result . |
| 30 | Simply line up the shelf in position , using a spirit level , before permanent fixing for a really professional result . |