Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 2 | Or pick up a cheap one . |
| 3 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 4 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 5 | The Association will provide past students with a chance to renew old friendships , make new contacts or build up a strong , useful network within the catering industry . |
| 6 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 7 | Would a trust , for example to construct a public building or to set up a private monument , actually be enforced as such ? |
| 8 | Mrs Peysner hopes that the money will be used instead to improve day facilities for this group at other homes or to set up a mobile day unit . |
| 9 | This is another reason for you to maintain your own social life , or to build up a new network of friends , if necessary . |
| 10 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 11 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 12 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 13 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 14 | Others have found it more advantageous to acquire a local bank or set up a joint venture with local banks . |
| 15 | Or phone up a cheerful friend who always makes you laugh . |
| 16 | This allowed us to line the side curtains in striped fabric and make up a flat roof instead of a gathered one . |
| 17 | Clear away topsoil and make up a simple formwork of timber supported by pegs set on the outside . |
| 18 | Erm so do you feel that in the years that you 've worked here are women just as important in the factory and make up a large part of the workforce now as they , as they 've ever done ? |
| 19 | When the children arrive you give them each a balloon and make up a convenient number of teams . |
| 20 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 21 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 22 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
| 23 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 24 | just lay into the bag with fast punch and kick sequences , moving around all the time and building up a good sweat . |
| 25 | They have spent ten years perfecting their own blend of rhythm and blues and building up a solid base in the region . |
| 26 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
| 27 | So much time and thought was spent in working these out and building up a satisfactory order of phases . |
| 28 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 29 | It is sometimes very difficult indeed not to be very cross , and there have been some occasions when I have had to go and chop up a few logs in order to abate my own aggression before replying . |
| 30 | The Siemens family maintained both British and German connections , for William 's brother Werner remained in Berlin and built up a great electrical engineering business there , making among other things the first trams . |