Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , of course , by far a situation too good to last and in time , gazing down the glen , a solitary figure was spied struggling up the brae — without a kit-bag — the WAAFs identified their squadron officer ( known as Belladonna ) apparently about to make her first call on her troops in the wild , I was never able at first hand to witness this airmen 's paradise but it is a story that passed the rounds at Kinloss . |
| 2 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 3 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 4 | A new telephone system has been installed to speed up the operations of Middlesbrough Borough and Cleveland County Councils . |
| 5 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 6 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 7 | Volunteers were sought to set up the tables . |
| 8 | Q I have decided to set up a 48″ x 18″ x 15″ fish only aquarium , with a view to changing a mixed fish/invert set-up and I am now contemplating which fish to buy . |
| 9 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 10 | An attempt was made to blow up a police chief . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , it was decided to make up the numbers with category B and C refugees . |
| 12 | Television therefore helped make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election campaign but not very interested in politics more generally . |
| 13 | Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one ! |
| 14 | This information was used to gross up the values declared by respondents to give estimates of exports for all exporting companies in Grampian . |
| 15 | Negotiations were started to purchase the site , and the London architects Spalding and Spalding were commissioned to draw up the plans . |
| 16 | The policy U-turn has been welcomed by local authorities , who claimed they did not have the resources needed to draw up the registers , and by building and property groups . |
| 17 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 18 | It is used to top up the seats awarded in proportion to the overall vote . |
| 19 | A Swedish yacht helped pick up the survivors . |
| 20 | Ah they would have had to wash up the plates and the knives and forks . |
| 21 | The summer term , following the practice was then used to follow up the students ' own interests ; to deal with examinations ( both school and public ) and advanced level work . |
| 22 | An inquiry into British energy should be undertaken to weigh up the arguments and to give the UK a national strategy for the years to 2012 and beyond . ’ |
| 23 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 24 | A number of men were employed to do up the houses one by one — they 're slowly being modernised and decorated . |
| 25 | Canvassing is undertaken to keep up the spirits of the candidate . |
| 26 | The Germans had intended blowing up the cellars of Champagne before retreating , but on 28 August 1944 they were caught napping as General Patton and his 3rd Army swept into Épernay . |
| 27 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 28 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 29 | ‘ Italian security chiefs .. have pledged to lock up the yobs in Sardinia 's notorious Buoncamino Prison and leave them there until AFTER the World Cup ends . ’ |
| 30 | ’ Werewolf nodded towards the restaurant 's kitchens from where Gino had appeared zipping up the flies on a new pair of jeans . |