Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [verb] up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help your children to make the most of their leisure time by encouraging them to take up a sport or join a local youth club |
| 2 | Because obviously it 's , they are going to some of the paving , we do n't wanting it running up a small onto the next lot . |
| 3 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 4 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 5 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | Someone could have put it away or be using it to sweep up a broken wine glass . |
| 7 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 8 | This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment , as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees . |