Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 2 | He recently drew up an ethics policy for United Biscuits , which he expects all his managers to endorse , because ‘ as a business becomes bigger and bigger — we now have operations in Japan , America and Belgium as well as the UK — I think the family ethics drawn up by the founders can gradually get eroded or watered down . ’ |
| 3 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 4 | During the Thatcher years , James Hanson built up a £10bn business empire through a series of audacious takeovers and acquired a peerage in the process . |
| 5 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , SNI , armed with its new point-of-sale alliance with Sun ( UX No 436 ) , has picked up a $10m contract with US supermarket chain Kash n ’ Karry Food Stores . |
| 7 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 8 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 9 | There has grown up a folk belief that recurrent thrush is completely untreatable . |
| 10 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |
| 11 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 12 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 13 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 14 | The Commission aims to open up the £60billion telecoms industry as part of the 1992 single European market . |
| 15 | The partners had already started to restrict drawings on the account , and Ms Harris and Charles Bullworthy then put up a £150,000 guarantee , supported by a second charge on their house , in order to increase the practice facility . |
| 16 | At the end of his visit Hurd announced that Britain intended to set up a £25,000,000 fund to promote Hungary 's economy . |
| 17 | Manchester United have been ready to set up a £3m deal for Pearce with former Forest mid-field star Neil Webb returning to the City Ground . |
| 18 | So seven officers are now spending a year travelling round the world to set up a data base of what is where : a field hospital there , an infantry battalion here . |
| 19 | The BHS on behalf of the other organisations plans to set up a data base which will include details provided on such thefts from owners , the police and other organisations . |
| 20 | The Government intends to set up a Staff Commission to oversee this process , but details of its remit and operation are as yet unclear . |
| 21 | The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees . |
| 22 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 23 | Architect Mr. E. Ravenscroft , was instructed to drawn up a £1,000 scheme and Mr. Mardon paid £10 towards his fees . |
| 24 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 25 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 26 | Glenister , 30 , hitched up the 19ft yacht and towed it to his home in Chawleigh , Devon , four miles away , Exeter magistrates were told . |
| 27 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 28 | Parrott , the UK snooker champ , scored a tremendous 6-5 victory over the world champion and world No 1 to claim the first title of the season and pick up a £25,000 cheque . |
| 29 | Winners of this year 's competition will take over the education page for a day and pick up a £200 cash prize . |
| 30 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |