Example sentences of "[vb base] up [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , the object of that part of the project is to try and address that issue , to try and make sure that N V Ss build up their links with environmental groups . |
| 2 | The aim of the programme is to develop the skills of parents of babies and young children and build up their self-esteem by : |
| 3 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 4 | I will have to be patient and then build up my knee for next season . |
| 5 | Divers build up your experience before diving offshore , get fit , keep fit . |
| 6 | You can take these courses either as an undergraduate and build up your degree over a few years or pursue a particular interest by taking these courses on a ‘ one-off ’ basis as an associate student . |
| 7 | As you build up your experiences over the years , you will develop almost a sixth sense and know when to medicate — and when to leave well alone . |
| 8 | So , start with a stem and gradually build up your design from that . |
| 9 | Build up your time in the sun gradually — start with half an hour or so . |
| 10 | Our idea was to arrive on a Friday night , eat far too much at one of the local pubs , and build up our strength for a full day 's riding on Saturday . |
| 11 | Una , his 10-year-old which collected breed honours at the 1991 Royal Welsh Show , is the daughter of a cow which he had imported from France during the build up his herd of 45 breeding cows at Drysgolgoch , Llanfyrnach . |
| 12 | Between now and the early spring he will continue to consult people and build up his plans for the crucial meeting with ministers . |
| 13 | She would shut him up , trample him down , stop up his mouth for ever with hot red mud . |
| 14 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 15 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 16 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 17 | We made camp that night in a clearing in the woods , and I put up my tent in what appeared to be a large sandpit , in the vague hope that perhaps the mozzies might not like it . |
| 18 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Should British researchers hold up their hands in horror at this further shameful symptom of the failure of the United Kingdom to innovate ? |
| 20 | Such works demean religious believers and hold up their convictions to contempt . |
| 21 | The Old and New Courts described , SB 31 ; ‘ hold up his hand at the Old Bailey ’ , i.e. to plead guilty . |
| 22 | A bathe in a spanking-clean river , roly-poly down the grassy knolls , finish up your bottle of Spanish water and jostle at the chip shop on your way home . |
| 23 | So we just get them in , we open up our doors at ten o'clock . |
| 24 | Open up your mind to the possibility that every suggestion someone makes to you is an opportunity for achieving even more profitable results . |
| 25 | Open up yu self to any possibility |
| 26 | After mortal trouble Let me lie still Where the wind drives and the clouds stream Over the hill Where grass 's thousand thirsty mouths Sup up their fill Of the slow dew and the sharp rain Of the mantling snow dissolv 'd again At Heaven 's sweet will . |
| 27 | She just wanted to hear her hero 's lovely voice , see those flashing eyes and bolster up her imagination with a few of his telling phrases about ‘ El Amor ’ . |
| 28 | The cells just look up their position in this set of instructions and behave accordingly . |
| 29 | If you respond to it , no other will do ; if you do n't , look up my reviews of other recent recordings , of which there are many . |
| 30 | Would he have tried to make her give up her share of this house and land ? |