Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 2 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 3 | They ran the most influential party journals , drew up the agenda for party conferences and congresses , and spearheaded the internecine struggle in which the parties were involved . |
| 4 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 5 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 6 | The conservatism of central and local government bureaucracy is only likely to be overcome if there is a strong , independent political movement keeping up the pressure for the legislation to be made meaningful . |
| 7 | She wore a pale blue suit , skirt slit up the thigh for combat , and a white blouse . |
| 8 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |
| 9 | From here you depart at 5.30pm and head up the Moselle for overnight mooring at Aiken a delightful wine village overlooked by the Thurant Castle . |
| 10 | The study , produced for the Standing Conference on Drug Abuse and Alcohol Concern , indicates SSDs must catch up if they are to assess misusers and stump up the cash for community care . |
| 11 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 12 | Mona , who had her daughter Soraya and a nanny with her , also picked up the tab for expensive dinners at trendy restaurants . |
| 13 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 14 | A&M have left them to it , stumping up the money for recording and a sampler along the way . |
| 15 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 16 | Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Fielding promised , he would hire the loft or the studio and line up the auditioning for the bit parts — the waiters , the dancers , the gangsters . |
| 18 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 19 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 20 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 21 | Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture for Destiny , is picking up the charter for recruiting the all-important software for the soon-to-debut desktop operating system from USL and this week will announce an early access programme that will get binary code into independent software developers ' hands immediately . |
| 22 | John Simpson 's lucid report for Panorama , following groups of mujahedin through most of this year , attested to both the benevolent power of photography — cameramen Chris Hooke and Peter Juvenal courageouslycaught images of broken bodies and wrecked villages , of fire and snow — and the more dubious power of America and Russia , picking up the tab for the fighters but not the victims . |
| 23 | The new conductor , Thelma Strange , picking up the baton for the first time , is his former pupil and so is new accompanist Kathryn Clarke . |
| 24 | Imagine that — passing up the opportunity for a little hanky-panky with yours truly . |
| 25 | After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours . |
| 26 | With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months . |
| 27 | In a move that will prop up the market for contemporary Quebecois art , and at the same time foster the province 's quest to reinforce its distinct cultural identity , the government of Quebec has guaranteed a C$5.4 million ( £2.25 million ; $4.5 million ) bank loan on behalf of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal , enabling that institution to purchase en bloc 1,300 works ninety percent contemporary Quebecois amassed by the bankrupt engineering firm Lavalin Inc . |
| 28 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 29 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 30 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |