Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this last day I want to sum up the things we have discussed . |
| 2 | Snow and slush messing up the pavements . |
| 3 | In the ancient world these dies were engraved by hand , but from the early medieval period punches began to be hammered into the die to make up the designs . |
| 4 | ‘ You jest join up the dots from the top downwards and when you done that , yous 'll have written yer name . |
| 5 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 6 | For example , using a good etymological dictionary , try looking up the origins and spelling changes in words like : ache delight ghost guest health ( and whole , hale ) island thought Changes in place names are particularly interesting , because they demonstrate clearly the way in which spelling does not determine pronunciation , but so often limps along behind . |
| 7 | Once you have a bootable machine run FDISK to set up the partition(s) on your drive . |
| 8 | * Check the contents page and try to link up the entries into a developing narrative or argument . |
| 9 | He says that they need protection against baiters who try to dig up the sets . |
| 10 | The nation-state , therefore , is the spatial reference point for most of the crucial transnational practices that go to make up the structures of the global system , in the sense that most transnational practices intersect in particular countries and come under the jurisdiction of particular nation-states . |
| 11 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 12 | They now have an urge to seek fresh water and start swimming up the rivers . |
| 13 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 14 | That is what the " diversity of human culture " really amounts to ; the variety of different ways which human beings choose to cut up the continuities of their animal experience . |
| 15 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 16 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 17 | When they come to write up the results of their research different anthropologists will , for doctrinal reasons , give very different weight to these two major aspects of the data , but , in the field , the anthropologist must always pay attention to both sides . |
| 18 | THE new pack leader , Gareth Llewellyn , yesterday sounded a call to arms as a reshaped Wales prepare to pick up the pieces against France in Paris tomorrow . |
| 19 | The pool is complete with three water buffaloes whose hooves help to open up the pools and to spread the fern spores — an ecological niche summed up in one telling image . |
| 20 | They , you know , at the back of us they 've blocked up the fences but I do n't know whether she 's got it right , I do n't know . |
| 21 | no , you need n't , need n't take those you got out last Friday , its the earlier one 's of which will be due next week I 'm sure cos they 've put up the prices now , its about ten P every day you have them out . |
| 22 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 23 | The welfare point is a little complicated , because of course you have to catch up the dogs , and many of those dogs will be killed , but the dogs can be treated well during the time they are held . |
| 24 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 25 | ‘ The Space study required for the national curriculum is based largely on the library , and we have built up the tasks together , with an emphasis on group work , ’ said a head of science . |
| 26 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 27 | The students have to pick up the threads of the conversation , to make sense of it , and to make a contribution — if they wish — in their own way . |
| 28 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 29 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 30 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |