Example sentences of "[verb] up the company ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 2 | Mr Welch geared up the company 's locomotive-manufacturing business for a much-ballyhooed revival in American railways that never happened . |
| 3 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 4 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 5 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 6 | More than 4,500 Ford employees have taken up the company 's new education scheme to encourage them to learn a foreign language . |
| 7 | Pearl 's new team will back up the company 's national workforce of 4,000 sales representatives . |
| 8 | And , however badly Ratner appears to have screwed up the company 's finances — and public image — some people are said to be still willing to give him financial support . |
| 9 | The acquisitions — and the cost of converting scores of Greenall pubs into Premier House outlets providing food and with budget accommodation — pushed up the company 's interest charge by 40 per cent to nearly £20million in the year . |