Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Z2033 remained on display at Duxford in its naval colours until September 1989 when Ken Evans and Herbie Church , two volunteers with the IWM , started work to tidy up the aircraft , working at the outset just one or two days a week . |
| 2 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 3 | The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees . |
| 4 | Natural selection was a process taking place within the whole breeding population making up the species , and if a division were to occur , the single original population must somehow be split into several distinct subpopulations that did not interbreed . |
| 5 | This surplus pushes up the yen , which ought to boost imports . |
| 6 | Those resources in property and money could be put to good use to top up the £23 million housing improvement programme allocation this year , the £12.5 million of estate action money , the £71 million of Housing Corporation money and the £15 million for the vacant dwellings initiative . |
| 7 | Stephen Hughes , MEP for Durham and Blaydon unveiled the competition to draw up the Ecu European Currency Unit during a visit to the school . |
| 8 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 9 | And he called on the company to make up the £1,650 for lost bar , ice-cream and coffee sales . |