Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MALCOLM CROSBY , the Sunderland manager , is bidding to tie up a loan deal for Millwall 's Ian Bogie — a player once dubbed the new Gazza . |
| 2 | 30 , London suburban background , now squatting , helping to set up a law centre to advise women . |
| 3 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 4 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 5 | In theory , anyone wanting to set up a bank should have $300,000 ( £175,000 ) capital . |
| 6 | On December 12th Mr Vicari called for an extraordinary general meeting to clear up the uncertainty over the firm 's future . |
| 7 | His first objective was to restore the authority of Soviet socialism by economic reform and political democratisation ; the second , much more ambitious objective was to reposition Soviet communism in relation to the European tradition from which it had originally emerged , seeking to build up a coalition of working class , religious , ecological , youth and other forces which could unite around the slogan of peace and social justice , if not necessarily Marxism-Leninism . |
| 8 | The crew would in turn be commanded by an unusually large number of officers for a merchant ship , for , in addition to the commander , the ship might carry six mates , a surgeon , a purser , five midshipmen and a surgeon 's mate , any one of whose places would be of value to a politician seeking to build up an interest . |
| 9 | We will be looking to build up a programme which has a reputation for being worthwhile , well run and well managed . |
| 10 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 11 | He conceded he was taking a risk by refusing to prop up a minority government without a commitment to PR . |
| 12 | Stamp duty suspension for properties up to £250,000 has certainly encouraged householders wanting to move up the housing ladder to start looking again . |
| 13 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 14 | To get maximum benefit in making your diet easy , speedy and healthy , obtain your dietary fibre from a wide range of cereal , fruit and vegetable foods rather than seeking to make up the total from just one or two very fibre-rich foods . |
| 15 | Thus , governments are endlessly seeking to shore up the erosion of the national idea which a world economy inflicts upon them . |
| 16 | What I 'm going to do is to examine now I 'm going to go up the collar bone first over the shoulder pad , T-shirt with a shoulder pad . |
| 17 | Hold on tight now — I 'm going to whip up the horse . |
| 18 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 19 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 20 | I knew at once that I was never , never going to pick up the pill . |
| 21 | Mierle Laderman Ukele proposed an exhibition about maintenance called Care in 1969 : ‘ After the revolution who 's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning ? ’ |
| 22 | I had no doubts that he was going to pick up the package . |
| 23 | Paragraph 29 of the statement of claim alleges that the third and fourth defendants and through them , the fifth defendant were ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the breaches of section 3 , 47 , 56 and 57 in four specified respects , namely , ( i ) in authorising the transfer of a sum of U.S. $250,000 out of an account in the name of the second defendant into which investors ' money had been paid ; ( ii ) in making arrangements during the postal strike in September 1988 for the collection from investors of their cheques and for the distribution of advertisements inviting investment in Euramco ; ( iii ) in paying investors ' cheques into Pantell S.A. 's bank account ; and ( iv ) in attempting to set up an account at Barclays Bank 's Holborn branch for another company , also called Pantell S.A. |
| 24 | We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn |
| 25 | Every time we ventured outdoors , we had to brave the ranks of these dozens of seemingly unoccupied Americans who would sit in lines on the low walls surrounding the house , wolf whistling and just waiting to pick up a girl . |
| 26 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 27 | erm a couple of weeks ago two came in and I said ‘ Oh , I was just going to lock up the screen ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The question of whether we 're going to clean up the environment of this country is long over , ’ he told a press conference . |
| 29 | The Hindu report infuriated the opposition in parliament and there were renewed demands for the resignation of Mr Gandhi , who has repeatedly been accused of attempting to cover up the scandal . |
| 30 | The defendant was the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of criminal offences since 1975 when Bob Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman were found guilty of attempting to cover up the burglary of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate . |