Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 2 | We must take heart from our experience in Hyde Park , we must nurture that support and build up the confidence of our members . |
| 3 | Show up the folly of I feel this so I do that . |
| 4 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 5 | Pausing long enough at Bingen to have a coffee and look at maps , I decide it is time to abandon the Rhine for a while and cut up the valley of the river Nahe towards Idar-Oberstein and the Palatinate Forest . |
| 6 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 7 | Mine become so tame that they climb up the inside of the wire mesh when I approach the hutch and are clearly pleased to see me . |
| 8 | Turn somersaults and climb up the underside of a ladder with your armour on . |
| 9 | So she 's got her knuckles grazed , you 've cleansed it , put it into a drop of water , ra or else we 've used the Mediwipes or the end of the bandage okay , now we just cover it , okay , so it goes over , can you just straighten out your hand for me , it goes over the wound , okay and you can take this one that she can hold it for you just up there , right , now the rest of this just winds round , the only thing you really need to do is to just make sure that you leave the thumb out , cover up the bottom right and then come up towards the wrist , cover up the top of the pad , come back down again , leave the thumb out all the time , got the idea ? |
| 10 | In the United States during the 1920s , job security and internal ‘ job ladders ’ ( i.e. promotion from within the firm ) began to be introduced , it has been claimed , partly in order to differentiate ( the semi-skilled ) labour force and break up the sense of solidarity that united a firm 's workers in collective opposition to their employer — and they were to prove particularly effective in forestalling unionism ( Edwards , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | They break up the flow of a race track and demand a less gung-go , more confined approach . |
| 12 | Intelligence operates , in fact , through concepts which break up the flow of our experience , classifying it by isolated , lifeless categories , such as cause and effect , beginning and end , subject and object , and so on . |
| 13 | In the infrared there are two wavelengths , at 3 and 6 , with extremely high water absorption , coupled with good transmission through fibre optics , and FELs open up the possibility of using a tunable laser operating in a pulsed mode in these regions , thus minimising tissue damage . |
| 14 | The decisions that we have made on the interior and justice portfolio — to deal with terrorism more closely in an intergovernmental agreement — open up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism . |
| 15 | The different definitions open up the possibility of divergent interpretations . |
| 16 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 17 | The recall of Botham and Allan Lamb open up the prospect of 20 of the 22 players who contested the World Cup final clashing again in the third Texaco match . |
| 18 | From your time sheet covering three typical days add up the amount of time you 've spent on all these activities/jobs . |
| 19 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 20 | Add up the value of your home , car , shares and belongings and you may well find you are worth more than the current threshold . |
| 21 | It seems a minor , if pleasant , benefit until you mount up the cost of a weekly trip to the hairdressers . |
| 22 | If you want to know how many units of alcohol you drink , look up the type of drink in the left column . |
| 23 | I 'd like you to get your calcu calculator out , look up the sine of |
| 24 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 25 | If you look up the line of the eighteenth fairway you will see — yes — the helicopter is hovering over its target . |
| 26 | Tidy up something which he 'd overlooked ; wipe the mallet clean ; clear up the evidence of whatever it was he was doing here last night ; replace the keys on the body ? |
| 27 | It means — give up the price of a meal , or even a choc-bar snack , and give the money to SCF , whose life-saving work in Africa is again being targeted . |
| 28 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 29 | I bring up the subject of music . |
| 30 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |