Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 2 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 3 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 4 | So a female researcher is more likely to recognise , and pick up certain cues , or pick up the ways in which she 's not actually being addressed , than a male researcher necessarily . |
| 5 | Richard Penrose , defending , said the firm had not intended to conceal or cover up the accident . |
| 6 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 7 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
| 8 | Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink . |
| 9 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 10 | it should also be possible to discover a number of laws which can be used to assist parallelism introduction , for example by making a sequential program more amenable to it , or speeding up the behaviour of a parallel network . |
| 11 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 12 | At last , while the shadow of the ramparts reached quickly over the grass , they gathered up the debris of their afternoon and skipped or ran or walked or grumbled up the slopes to home . |
| 13 | Vologsky made no move to close the hood , or warm up the aircraft 's engines . |
| 14 | Or smash up the house or something . |
| 15 | A third reason for isostatic anomalies is that there are dynamic forces present in the sub-lithospheric mantle which are capable of actively dragging down or pushing up the lithosphere . |
| 16 | After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours . |
| 17 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 18 | Much of the government 's initiative was simply job substitution — the collection of rubbish or cleaning up the environment on the cheap using ACE workers instead of full-time employed council staff . |
| 19 | At Ferrari , the only effort to put things right is either to find the scapegoat or to cover up the mistake and deny it ever happened . |
| 20 | Some may even be clinging to the arching aerial roots of the mangroves or clambering up the trunks . |
| 21 | or give up the shoe-box |
| 22 | Patients find visual proprioceptive cues very useful — eg , aiming at marks or patterns on the floor , trying to kick forward the leading leg , or turning up the toes inside the shoe . |
| 23 | … or wire up the junction box to replace a rose , wired from its own junction box . |
| 24 | Always turn off the water at the mains stopcock first ( or tie up the ballvalve ) and turn on all taps ( provided the sink and basin wastes are n't frozen up ! ) and then attempt to trace the position of the burst . |
| 25 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 26 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |
| 27 | Before you start thinking about mood and atmosphere , or revving up the party machine , what you must have are the facts . |
| 28 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 29 | Removing debris , dismantling , demolishing , shoring-up or propping up the home following destruction or damage insured under the policy . |
| 30 | You 'll have to empty the toilet bowl first : you can do this by bailing out the water by hand , or tying up the ballcock and flushing the loo . |