Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I wanted to go up West tonight . |
| 2 | Indemnity policies protect the lender , not the borrower , so if you failed to keep up mortgage payments and the house had to be sold for less than your outstanding debt , the insurance company would pay the lender the difference , but might sue you for that amount ! |
| 3 | My mother , she decided to give up sugar , I think it was about one year . |
| 4 | And you decided to take up floristry because you saw a course advertised in a magazine ? ’ |
| 5 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 6 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 7 | She had to keep up rental payments which finally mounted up to £570 a quarter — regardless . |
| 8 | We began to pick up speed in our responses to unfolding human rights crises . |
| 9 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 10 | We had to boost up chlorine levels actually , to meet E C directives . |
| 11 | When they began to dig up waste land on St George 's Hill in Surrey , they were driven off by local farmers , who almost certainly included small peasants angered at the usurpation of their common rights . |
| 12 | The government 's listening centre at Cheltenham hit the headlines in 1984 , when staff were told they had to give up union membership . |
| 13 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 14 | He tried to grope up back of my thing ! |
| 15 | He promised to step up competition against the company 's Japanese rivals . |
| 16 | In.1922 he threatened to give up literature . |
| 17 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 18 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 19 | On the death of his father in 1853 he decided to take up medicine , and became a student at the London Hospital ( MRCS and LSA , 1856 ) , where he won many prizes . |
| 20 | He had to shore up support among traditional Democrats , and he did ; hence the expectation that he would be the harbinger of a hundred new social policies on everything from vaccination to AIDS . |
| 21 | Instead , it tended to push up wage scales in unionized industries and subsequently pushed inflation even higher . |