Example sentences of "[verb] up the [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 2 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 3 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 4 | Julia Swift , author of 12 Steps To Beautiful Breasts ( Thorsons ) , replied : ‘ Breasts are just fatty tissue , but toning up the muscles which lie underneath and around does improve a profile . |
| 5 | Then began scuttering backwards and forwards like a small , frightened mouse , picking up the things they had dropped , clothes in the bedroom , toothpaste tube in the bathroom . |
| 6 | Alexei glanced idly down , and he saw that a company of troopers of the guard — C'zaki by their dress , under the command of a Yek officer — were marching up from the direction of the gate , picking up the sentries who had completed their tour of duty , dropping off the night watch . |
| 7 | Absent-mindedly , Jackie licked his own fingers and ran them round the plate by the bed , picking up the crumbs which he transferred to his tongue . |
| 8 | The task of filling up the blanks I 'd rather leave to you . |
| 9 | Civil servant who cut up the boys he lured back to his house , burned the pieces , buried them . |
| 10 | Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels . |
| 11 | As soon as she stopped struggling and stood motionless he let her go and bent to pick up the shoes she 'd dropped . |
| 12 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 13 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 14 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 15 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 17 | To pile up the runs you must get over 40 with three darts — any excess is added to your score . |
| 18 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 19 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 20 | It is currently drawing up the goals it intends to achieve , which , as an Opportunity 2000 signatory , it is required to announce publicly . |
| 21 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | They make up the words themselves , right |
| 23 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 24 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 25 | The pupil builds up the words he wants in a stand , and can test out his ideas without having to commit them to paper yet . |
| 26 | For example in studying the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the analysis of the causes is further refined by their division into long-term causes and short-term causes : To encourage the analysis of evidence pupils must be asked to weigh up the sources which may contradict one another . |
| 27 | It 's impossible to generalise and it 's up to each farmer to weigh up the options which suit him best . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke has to weigh up the strains which would be caused in our nation by admitting more refugees . |
| 29 | But they 've all gone cos every time you rake up the leaves you throw away another fifty . |
| 30 | I 'm still trying to give up the cigarettes you know ? |