Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices . |
| 2 | The resulting larvae sit on the sand or climb up any grass present and wait for a mammal to pass by . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do n't stop or pick up another fare for at least another five blocks after you drop me . |
| 8 | Government officials insisted that they were not going to build walls or put up barbed wire round the embassies . |
| 9 | To dispose of surplus or to take up excess capacity in production . |
| 10 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 14 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 15 | In his inaugural speech to the Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) on July 13 , however , Rabin said that his government would continue to " strengthen and build up Jewish settlement along the confrontation lines , due to their security importance , and in metropolitan Jersualem " . |
| 16 | When another few minutes went by she was scratching her head to try and think up some way of making sure that Naylor would consider any such notion laughable . |
| 17 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 18 | You will have to fabricate an exhaust system or use the purpose built one available from Jake Wright ( 0943 863530 ) and make up suitable water hoses and throttle linkage The oil filter will have to be replaced with an adaptor and remote filter fitted to stop the axle touching the filter |
| 19 | The HP.42 , G–AAUC Horsa , took-off from Basra on August 28 at 22.30 hours , to try and make up lost time . |
| 20 | Go over footbridge and pick up enclosed path , then lane into Branscombe village centre . |
| 21 | As time goes by , and more machines are added to the scale , you 'll have a month by month reference for PC performance — and as performance levels creep ever higher ( as they are doing at the moment ) we 'll extend the scale , and pick up new reference points . |
| 22 | If Wilson 's maid could be guaranteed to clean the rooms each day and deal with washing , which could be sent out , and empty the slops and bring up hot water then that would suffice . |
| 23 | ‘ And bring up some wine from the cellar ! ’ |
| 24 | The shelves are full of wonderful food at this time of year and I thought of how I could binge and throw up all day long . |
| 25 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 26 | Firms raised more external finance than they needed , using the surplus to repay bank debts and build up excess cash . |
| 27 | But the point of the TWE deal is that US West and its other owners could share stakes in a multimedia venture and build up competitive telephone services across America . |
| 28 | They aimed to help the community overcome its physical deprivation and build up social communication at the same time . |
| 29 | I need n't be frightened of the mole-woman : she 'd be too busy making beds and totting up last night 's proceeds to wonder whether I was a truant from a Youth Custody Centre or a prostitute on an overnight break . |
| 30 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |