Example sentences of "[verb] up the [n mass] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ?
5 To tidy up the l.e.d. holes , use panel bushes which fit into the 6mm ( ¼″ ) holes already drilled and the l.e.d.s themselves then snap into these .
6 The pilots were revving up the aircraft engines ; there would be no stand-down .
7 No matter what we did we caught carp but still we found that 17lb was about the ceiling and with the bait situation looking very low and the prospect of the homeward journey the following morning we both decided to pack up the carp rods and fish all out for the cats .
8 He wrote up the names of all trainees on the white board , and at the end of the day , he wrote up the sales scores of each one .
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