Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not happen to the drill in question , used for bringing up deep water , because the workers were foreigners , excluded from the provisions of the law . |
| 2 | But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure . |
| 3 | Western support for tearing up existing loan deals , then , held the key to Mexico 's success . |
| 4 | Jeremy Costello-Roberts received ‘ a slippering ’ at Barnstaple , Devon , for notching up five demerit marks after talking in the school corridors and , on one occasion , being late for bed . |
| 5 | Bond , 54 , the former head of a £400 million empire , spent three months on a prison farm near Perth before an Australian appeal court cleared him of concealing a £7 million fee for shoring up failed merchant bank Rothwells . |
| 6 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |
| 7 | Mia launched her search for a doggy companion after setting up temporary home in Ireland during the filming of ‘ Widow 's Peak ’ on location . |
| 8 | Ideally , the evening study periods should be used for reviews of the work given in lectures , and the daily " free periods " for writing up practical work . |
| 9 | An idea I have found very useful for picking up unwanted food and rubbish from the bottom of a tank ( such as a bare bottom isolation tank etc. ) is a simple length of rigid tube about ¼″ dia and three or four inches longer than the tank depth . |
| 10 | Another 54 food handlers in Hartlepool have proved they know all about serving up safe food for their customers . |
| 11 | The Tequila Slammer , which you probably wo n't find in the Cocktail Recipe books , was almost certainly invented by some loony Hooray in a flash cocktail bar somewhere as a means of using up cheap tequila . |
| 12 | But she believed that the more a woman covered up , the more she was attractive to the opposite sex , while Bernard grasped the idea as a way of using up more fabric . |
| 13 | The Gulf states , including Iran , should be given the task of drawing up regional security arrangements without foreign interference , and the Gulf should be declared a zone free of foreign military presence . |
| 14 | However , Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , said the proposals for passing unforeseen costs on to consumers were well-known and accused Dr Cunningham of whipping up unjustified concern . |
| 15 | The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path . |
| 16 | The algorithm is not continuously diverted from depth-first into breadth-first search simply by virtue of picking up additional cost , as is the shortfall method . |
| 17 | Do n't you have any proofreaders or subs capable of picking up this sort of elementary mistake ? |
| 18 | He at least had the consolation of a third round loser 's cheque for £5,355 pounds almost doubling his prize money for the year and of picking up valuable ranking points . |
| 19 | The erosion was anticipated because of Sparcstation 10 Model 41 shortages and the cost of ramping up new product production . |
| 20 | Civil liability for the cost of cleaning up environmental contamination would be a concrete application of this principle . |
| 21 | The programme makes no mention , however , of highly expensive tasks of cleaning up toxic waste dumps and military sites . |
| 22 | But it does suggest that racism is too deeply embedded in the whole experience of growing up working class to be the sole responsibility of skins . |
| 23 | The possibility of breaking up British Gas into competing units was also successfully opposed by Sir Denis , who argued that it was impossible to achieve competition in a natural monopoly . |
| 24 | I think she 's on the point of kicking up another fuss , when one of the Hospitality team slips in with cakes and glasses of lemon tea . |
| 25 | In general , ten welcomed the proposal , including from Argentina ( ‘ I think this type of study is necessary ’ ) , of the Christian Conference of Asia ( ‘ I join others who have welcomed the idea of linking up theological thinking to development issues . ’ ) |
| 26 | The longest surviving sovereign of the age , the Emperor Muhammed Shah ( called Rangila , or the Colourful ) , survived by the simple ruse of giving up any pretence of ruling : in the morning he watched partridge and elephant fights ; in the afternoon he was entertained by jugglers , ventriloquists , mime artists and conjurors . |
| 27 | They were defeated by King Solomon of Hungary in 1073 , but as a means of stirring up further trouble , Michael sent the victor , Duke Géza , Solomon 's brother , a Byzantine crown . |
| 28 | ‘ Well I was thinking of boiling up some offal afterwards . ’ |
| 29 | There are also grants available to cover about a quarter of the cost of putting up new school buildings . |
| 30 | On 4 January illegal posters appeared at Beida appealing to Deng Xiaoping to reinstate the basic right of putting up large character posters , which had been banned by the ‘ Ten Articles ’ . |