Example sentences of "[verb] up [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 2 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 3 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 4 | Thus the company is uniquely placed to sum up current interest in alternative fuels for diesel and petrol engines . |
| 5 | Last season 's national finalists Watchorn Alfreton , of Derbyshire , may have left their title challenge a little late this year , but notched up their first victory in three games to jump up two places in the tables with more than a little help from experienced manager Ashley Broomhead . |
| 6 | Then consideration is given to the importance of maintaining social involvement through keeping up personal relationships in old age . |
| 7 | These , in turn , had derived from an experiment in wiring up 18 homes in Milton Keynes — hardly a representative scheme . |
| 8 | Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services . |
| 9 | OH , what a stir was caused by Ghostwatch , the BBC Halloween programme which appeared to have conjured up evil spirits in a haunted house . |
| 10 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 11 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 12 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | He then looks up this time in a reference book to find out which lighthouse flashes in this way . |
| 14 | The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority . |
| 15 | She had sat up that night in her room , sitting on the bed scribbling notes on one of the Shelbourne 's notepads . |
| 16 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 17 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 18 | Alan Heath science teacher says the girls learn more about life than anything else they 've grown up three years in one day purring along behind the girls are one of 20 teams from Japan … this one is the cat 's whiskers … |
| 19 | There are several other groups of managers who have recently moved into shell companies , with the view to picking up good deals in recession-hit markets . |
| 20 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 21 | After all , picking up strange men in strange towns … |
| 22 | The new test depends on picking up subtle differences in the way that DNA is distributed around the nuclei of cancerous cells . |
| 23 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 24 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 25 | Research is being conducted at King 's College , London to see how accurate the ulstrasound is at picking up excess fluid in the neck region , in conjunction with the triple test there may be a 95 pc accurate diagnosis . |
| 26 | More likely , it is also a matter of picking up Conservative habits in a Conservative environment . |
| 27 | ‘ I was feeling pretty pleased with myself yesterday after picking up some awards in Harrogate , including one for a window display . |
| 28 | Rushmere topped the batting averages with 372 runs ( 62.00 ) in seven innings , while his World Cup team-mate Meyrick Pringle ( WP ) was the most successful bowler , picking up 31 wickets in the six matches at 13.58 . |
| 29 | TWO Gulf War soldiers died after picking up unexploded bombs in the desert , a coroner heard yesterday . |
| 30 | He believed he was as beautiful as ever when he looked into the glass , but perhaps the AIDS scare had stopped them picking up older men in bars . |