Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 2 | Anne and Mrs Bennet did what they could to clear up the house . |
| 3 | They always used to go up the farm or we used to lay them in the boxes , up the yard , the church yard yeah . |
| 4 | The small amount of finance used to set up the company came from Garrett 's personal savings . |
| 5 | You may have noticed that the dialogue boxes used to set up the Program Groups and Program Item both have a Password option . |
| 6 | not so used now , though once used to cover up the flavour of unpleasant medicines |
| 7 | These were in turn used to gross up the export values declared by respondents to estimates of exports for all exporters in Scotland . |
| 8 | My husband recollect when they used to climb up the stocks to put the owd canvas sails on the mill . |
| 9 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 10 | Group rewards of a symbolic kind like a group photograph or company shield with the group 's name on it are important devices used to build up the sense of practical ideological community . |
| 11 | Living systems store their energy in the cells as specific high-energy phosphate bonds linked to molecules similar to those used to build up the genes . |
| 12 | But the highlight of it was that I used to get a ride on the dray and I used he he we used to finish up the round at the bottom of erm Road , and Street . |
| 13 | I used to ring up the ambulance people : ‘ There 's a fight and somebody 's got hurt at the Queen 's Head . ’ |
| 14 | Even the small boat used to collect up the bottles had to be destroyed . |
| 15 | ‘ Bands like the Nephilim and The Sisters do everything they can to cover up the fact that they are mortal . |
| 16 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |