Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 32 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 33 | The R S P C A have to pick up the pieces and they 've launched a campaign to try and stop it and joining me now is Alan . |
| 34 | Under the present regime , where differential pricing is forbidden , big tied agents like the Halifax , Nationwide and Leeds Permanent — taking advantage of the fact that they are powerful distribution channels with ‘ hot client bases ’ — have pushed up the commissions they receive from the life offices to which they are tied to huge levels . |
| 35 | At this point you have to set up the machines CMOS memory for the new drive . |
| 36 | At first they think the builders have messed up the drains . |
| 37 | ‘ You have probably done it because it is hot tonight , or maybe you have used up the trousers . ’ |
| 38 | South Tees Health Authority and South Tees Community Health Council have drawn up the forms . |
| 39 | ‘ My surveyors have drawn up the plans and it 's going to be virtually mid-centre of the site . ’ |
| 40 | I can remember stuff they thought too petty for Trivial Pursuit and then somedays I have to look up the instructions on my bootlaces . |
| 41 | Of course there is no advantage in this method if you have to look up the hooks . |
| 42 | We have to weigh up the merits of medical assistance and of leaving Nature to take its course . |
| 43 | Clearly , borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer — greater flexibility in one area of the lending terms is likely to be balanced by restrictive conditions in another area . |
| 44 | You have to weigh up the pros and cons . |
| 45 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 46 | But because these schemes are more complex , staff at the Ministry of Defence have to draw up the contracts as DoI officials lack the expertise . |
| 47 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 48 | We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them . |
| 49 | The majors have swept up the independents in licensing deals , or in Norman Jay 's case , have started to employ a new breed of A&R man … |
| 50 | ‘ His men have rounded up the children from Ashbrook — ‘ t is one of my lord 's villages a mile or so from here , ’ he explained when Isabel made a small querying sound . |
| 51 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 52 | They have tightened up the rules on availabilty for work and only pay out to those genuinely entitled to the money . |
| 53 | Sudjic implies this when he explains how architects of office blocks have to dress up the imperatives of mechanical engineers , and when he examines , and rejects , attempts to tie the design of tower blocks to the social ills they can contain . |
| 54 | East Anglian surveyors Bidwells have taken up the cudgels on behalf of farmers not only at the timescale for completion of claim forms for area and set-aside payments and ewe and beef premiums , but also at the fines which could result from late or incorrect returns . |
| 55 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 56 | But we have , but we have put up the salaries which is good |
| 57 | Officers have dug up the foundations of a garage in Goddard Avenue , Swindon , in a resumed search for Mrs Main . |
| 58 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 59 | We need to follow up the contacts already made when we invited comment on the idea of a course ( in any case , I promised to let them know what happened ) . |