Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 2 | We want to open up lines of communication and provide more information so that people know what is available , tell us when they are pleased with the services and , equally , let us know when they are not . |
| 3 | We 're called to waste ground , behind pet shops , a any place to pick up boxes of unwanted puppies , kittens that have obviously been er planned for selling to people er before Christmas . |
| 4 | I want to point up examples of good practice which will enable a vulnerable elderly person to transfer into the group care setting , keeping a sense of identity and a family network intact , with the possibility that residential staff become part of the extended family network , or social support system . |
| 5 | Party chiefs hope to unite Tory rebels who want to hold up ratification with opposition MPs who see the Government motion as vote of confidence in John Major . |
| 6 | If the Tories want to bring up cases at Points of Order I am prepared to do so . ’ |
| 7 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 8 | According to Electronic News , the two hope to wrap up negotiations within 60 days , but that terms for Encore to do Unix System V.4 and Oracle7 reference implementations for the Alpha , and possibly license its Unix clustering capabilities to DEC , are not yet finalised . |
| 9 | Iraqi troops begin taking up positions on the Saudi border . |
| 10 | Certainly , as I will argue later , ’ sport and show business constitute the two spheres in which blacks have made immense contributions and which seem to throw up figures with whom black kids tend to identify and on whom they model themselves . |
| 11 | Is that where you get blow up things from ? |
| 12 | Millwall v Arsenal Arsenal still have to find their form of a year ago but they continue to pick up points at regular intervals , and with Marwood fit and Groves recovered from a virus they should have the resources to beat a Millwall side again lacking Briley and looking for their first League win since September 23 . |
| 13 | The acquisition of Hillmarden House and Alex 's flat , plus the sale of their existing home , made her decide to give up work in June , rather than September . |
| 14 | After taking the Bar examination you may obtain employment in the legal department of a commercial firm under the aegis of an employed barrister as a ‘ commercial pupil , ’ and this will give you three months ' exemption from pupillage if you afterwards decide to take up practice at the Bar . |
| 15 | Or try to pick up marbles with your toes . |
| 16 | It may be , says George , that the public should be privy to the codes which doctors use to rustle up data on drugs on their TV screens . |
| 17 | Tan accelerators claim to speed up production of melanin — the pigment produced by your skin in the sun — but there 's no evidence that they work . |
| 18 | Cos it 's pointless keep making up loads of paints when other people have already mixed the colour up . |
| 19 | many crops produced in the Third World go to fatten up livestock for Westerners ' consumption |
| 20 | Some observers have suggested that the decline of the village as the main social unit in Japan has produced a greater heterogeneity in the smaller groups which go to make up society as a whole . |
| 21 | But , er , other people start bringing up sort of problems with the French tax situation on such and such a structure of company or whatever , which is not anything we want to get involved with . |
| 22 | When next they start going up month by month , will the headlines trumpet , Good news for home owners ? |
| 23 | If they start locking up players for vagrants , then clearly the country lays no store by its Mysteries . |
| 24 | Move to step up activity in Germany |
| 25 | You mean when you 've tucked up Mallachy into his bed ! ’ |
| 26 | Twice I 've picked up goods on a shelf marked reduced and then found , because of the bar codes , I was charged full price at the pay-out desk . |
| 27 | But they 've made up stories about Ships coming from other worlds . ’ |
| 28 | The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options . |
| 29 | ‘ Since her arrest , they 've trumped up charges against her , and she 's been deported to Beirut . ’ |
| 30 | I recommend taking up position at — ‘ |