Example sentences of "[prep] order [verb] up [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This causes the contestant to try and get even closer to the opponent 's face with subsequent jabs , in order to pick up that elusive score . |
| 2 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 3 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , hostility to socialist realism runs deep and it would seem appropriate and productive at this stage to examine briefly the more critical views of the practice of Stalinist socialist realism articulated quite dramatically by Georg Lukacs himself , in order to draw up another set of criteria by which to assess Nizan 's communist novels . |
| 5 | And more extensive forms of record-keeping are required in order to build up fashionable supplements to GCSE such as profiles , and records or certificates of achievement . |
| 6 | I mean y I think the charges that banks are making in order to make up some of their losses , they 're going to be passed on to the average investor , you know the average client , so erm you know the Halifax will do it free , I 've heard recently that they are actually charging for er holding your deeds . |
| 7 | Nearly one million people have now had to claim mean-tested benefits in order to top up low pay . |