Example sentences of "[verb] up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes . |
| 2 | With two rooms used up holding the heavies , the bedroom 's all that is left . |
| 3 | Since 1977 a case law has been built up to define the limits of the availability of this remedy , which proved very popular . |
| 4 | BCG also argued that a company with a balanced portfolio of products would use cash flows generated from the cash cows to invest in selected problem children , which would be built up to become the stars of the future . |
| 5 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 6 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 7 | His wife 's hair was straggling over her eyes , and she had not made up to hide the ravages of the night 's events . |
| 8 | On the face of it , it may seem that these two approaches can be made to coincide as long as the rules are drawn up to reflect the facts . |
| 9 | Note : A detailed timetable should be drawn up showing the steps involved and allocating responsibilities between the various parties . |
| 10 | But the charities say plans have not even been drawn up to develop the homes and that housing associations have refused to start work on projects until they are promised funding for running costs . |
| 11 | The trust for sale terms drawn up gave the trustees the right to manage the land and an obligation to sell it if it no longer produced a satisfactory income , with the proceeds of the sale going to the beneficiary , the consent of the beneficiary being necessary before the sale could take place . |
| 12 | Because their relations with the landlords were to remain unaltered for at least two years ( while charters were drawn up describing the obligations they were supposed to redeem ) , they believed that the government had cheated them . |
| 13 | Plans are being drawn up to enhance the pavements between Wakefield and Rennie Houses . |
| 14 | The contract was drawn up to safeguard the teachers ' rights in the situation . |
| 15 | At the at the Gorbels and after I was married During the war there was a terrific fire and he was burned to death in the lift going up to bring the girls down . |
| 16 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 17 | At 5 o'clock they turned up to find the police waiting for them . |
| 18 | Claire Bennett and Welsh international Vicki Broadbent of Mold , teamed up to lift the women 's doubles crown , beating Claire Bullen Evans of Prestatyn and Nicola Jones of St Asaph 6–3 , 7–5 . |
| 19 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 20 | That the government , local authorities and private companies are not queueing up to offer the resources to enable CABx to extend their work can only be due to the movement 's failure to make its point effectively . |
| 21 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 22 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 23 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 24 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 25 | Penry got up to take the trays . |
| 26 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 27 | Your dad stays up to watch the movies . |
| 28 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 29 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 30 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |