Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or try to pick up marbles with your toes . |
| 2 | I 'm wearing a black figure-hugging knee-length frock , which has been hand-embroidered all over with dangling jet beads ; sharp , dangling jet beads that make standing up imperative . |
| 3 | This Carpenter 's In-House store at Headington in Oxford is one of twenty-six accross the country that has shut up shop for good . |
| 4 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
| 5 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 6 | God plays an important role in Coleridge 's poetry , as a symbol of ultimate creativity ; both ‘ the creation ’ in biblical terms , and the powers of creation with which we are all invested , are the result of the workings of the ‘ Great Universal Teacher ’ , and so consequently the poet has tremendous respect for God , as he lets us think as we wish ; ‘ he shall mould thy spirit and by giving make it ask ’ , is a line that seems to sum up Coleridge 's views adequately . |
| 7 | To help you work our your own menus , here are summaries of the salads and the foods that go to make up breakfasts and snacks . |
| 8 | Secondly , those that do put up barriers to segregate the ‘ junkie ’ from other customers . |
| 9 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 10 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 11 | He said Wellcome could not benefit from tax breaks enjoyed by companies that had set up manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico . |
| 12 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 13 | Scotland has played host to several big American semiconductor firms ( including Motorola , General Instrument and National Semiconductor ) that have set up plants making standards . |
| 14 | Pringle and Laverty are apparently unaware of the many family health services authorities that have set up approval procedures for employing counsellors in primary care . |
| 15 | The capital redemption reserve is a non-distributable reserve and represents paid up share capital . |
| 16 | For a while it organised mass meetings outside Eastbourne and Rye and sought to push up wages during the harvest season . |
| 17 | This sometimes went further than raising the TOEFL entry fee and involved putting up guarantees for thousands of dollars for candidates . |
| 18 | Golden Freeze is not well handicapped and has gone up 4lb since finishing second to Joint Sovereignty in the Mackeson . |
| 19 | The state , prompted by the FMC , has taken numerous measures to encourage women in this way and has set up nursery schools , crèches , workers ' canteens , automatic laundries , the provision of medical facilities and a system of grants . |
| 20 | ONE of India 's leading artist is turning his attention to the Tees and has set up studio in Middlesbrough art gallery . |
| 21 | This led us to monitor the implementation of the programme closely and to modify follow up protocols in the light of our experience . |
| 22 | LITHUANIA 'S former Communist Party leader Algirdas Brazauskas emerged as the republic 's new president yesterday and promised to speed up privatisation and promote foreign investment . |
| 23 | In 1986 , she moved to Matagalpa , and helped to set up projects with women whose menfolk were killed in the war . |
| 24 | Lastly , where the LDDC has belatedly entered into ‘ agreements ’ with local authorities , such as with Newham and Tower Hamlets , and helped to set up training schemes like SKILLNET , designed to improve the skill levels of local communities , it has had little impact so far on getting local people into Docklands jobs . |
| 25 | David Nicholas , Deal 's marketing director , says the company will be producing gears by the end of the year and plans to build up production to ½ million units a year within two years . |
| 26 | 1961 Goes underground to organize mass stay-away of May 1961 and to help set up ANC armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe |
| 27 | er and to avoid racking up costs which is a thing that worries me |
| 28 | THE fighting had just broken out in Panama City when a group of men dressed in civilian clothes and armed with rifles surrounded the Marriott Hotel and began rounding up guests . |
| 29 | george Best said ‘ You 're my best mate pal so you are , hic , you and me against the f**cking world , hic , f**cking best mate a bloke ever had , hic , do you want a fight or what , hic ’ George then vomited and began coughing up blood so I grabbed hold of Dennis Law who said ‘ Younaaaa theeeerm Maanchessterr Uuuniitedd younaanarr ’ . |
| 30 | Helen went into the kitchen and began to cut up onions . |