Example sentences of "[verb] up the [n mass] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Glenister , 30 , hitched up the 19ft yacht and towed it to his home in Chawleigh , Devon , four miles away , Exeter magistrates were told . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The US is buying up the salmon fishing rights of Greenland 's fishing industry in an attempt to restore the salmon population of its own rivers . |
| 9 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 10 | From there the vans would be collected by the ex-Great Central Railway Fish Dock tankers ( a little outside cylinder 0 — 6 — 0 side tank locomotive of a short-wheel base design for working the tight curves on the docks ) and pushed up the fish jetty for loading with fish for despatch to such places as Leicester and Banbury as part of the express fish train service offered by the railway . |
| 11 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 12 | Llandudno professional Simon Boulden picked up the £360 winner 's cheque at Bull Bay 's annual pro-am tournament with a two-under par round of 69 which included birdy twos at the short 10th and 12th holes . |
| 13 | TODAY snapped up the £5.25 china corgi she had her eye on . |