Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 2 | There were also , throughout the century , various international bodies ( which in the nineteenth century , as now , frequently meant bodies dominated by or confined to Britain and America ) concerned with promoting various radical reforms or building up new ventures like Sunday Schools . |
| 3 | This is the most satisfactory form of sublimation , of aim-inhibited love , where the energy is derived from sexuality , the instinct 's aim being deflected away from genital aims on to others such as doing good works , creating beautiful things or building up close friendships . |
| 4 | When it rains they huddle against the building , leave the objects on blankets or broken up cardboard boxes , only to return to selling when the rain stops . |
| 5 | A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices . |
| 6 | The migrations had been made possible by geological changes temporarily removing barriers such as the English Channel , or opening up new routes through the creation of land-bridges . |
| 7 | Beyond that , we are into the final , open stage of adult or continuing education , which may go on intermittently for many years , compensating for missed opportunities , updating and extending existing skills , or opening up new fields of interest and expertise altogether . |
| 8 | She stressed that such an investigation would not hinder progress or hold up commerical companies , but would further public acceptance of the technology and so foster developments . |
| 9 | Customers taking bikes to the shop for repair or picking up new cycles found they could not park near the shop . |
| 10 | They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering . |
| 11 | The resulting larvae sit on the sand or climb up any grass present and wait for a mammal to pass by . |
| 12 | The radical change in Soviet policy was epitomised when Western investors were warmly invited to buy into state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ) or to set up new ventures , all with the ability freely to repatriate their profits . |
| 13 | The height of the front wheels is obtained by pushing or pulling up two plastic adjuster plugs on the front of the machine , which adjust the height of the axle . |
| 14 | Perhaps you need to buy a reliable alarm clock , or give up early-morning TV and settle for hearing the day 's news on radio . |
| 15 | Here a solicitor can become an adviser and mentor to clients and can help set up or expand small businesses , draft a complex will , or draw up different types of contracts . |
| 16 | Capital gains tax will not become payable until the original shareholder sells his shares in B ; and if B is formed in a tax haven in which there are no restrictions on loans to directors , he can in fact enjoy the proceeds of the original shares in Company A free of tax until he dies or takes up permanent residence outside the jurisdiction . |
| 17 | This may imply adding new relations to the set , adding data elements ( attributes ) to one or more of the relations , or breaking up one relation into two or more relations . |
| 18 | It is easy to foresee a DG very quickly falling flat on his face or stirring up more problems than he started with . |
| 19 | This is a scheme whereby unemployed people who require to learn new skills or brush up former skills are placed with an employer for an agreed period of time to achieve those skills . |
| 20 | Do n't stop or pick up another fare for at least another five blocks after you drop me . |
| 21 | DROPS — Demountable Rack Off-loading and Pick-up System — are trucks that can set down or pick up large quantities of supplies . |
| 22 | Government officials insisted that they were not going to build walls or put up barbed wire round the embassies . |
| 23 | When handling or putting up large mirrors , it is essential to have help . |
| 24 | Conversely there were occasions when world oil production reached levels which could not be explained by known consumption forecasts , as IEA member governments established or topped up strategic stocks against the uncertainties of life , like the US government 's vast Strategic Petroleum Reserve ( SPR ) . |
| 25 | To dispose of surplus or to take up excess capacity in production . |
| 26 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 27 | And I 'll use any tools to do that , from playing games or getting them to draw their feelings , or setting them photo assignments or working on family album photographs or using masks or setting up psycho-dramatic tableux with them . |
| 28 | He admitted taking heroin with one employee after work but denied introducing him to drugs or setting up any deals . |
| 29 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 30 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |