Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There remained , however , the boarded up remains of the Melvin Hotel , which had stood derelict and unwanted since the day it was bombed in 1972 . |
| 2 | LIVERPOOL super-featherweight Jimmy Owens , who in August was involved in an acrimonious split with his manager Carl Moorcroft , has come up fighting with the most important contest and biggest payday of his career . |
| 3 | The club have chartered a special flight from Manchester to Bologna and over 100 fans hare already booked up to travel with the official party . |
| 4 | City Hall has clung to its paternalist traditions — which go far beyond the municipal norm in America — and has wound up enmeshed in the social problems of a city of 7.3m people in constant turmoil . |
| 5 | FRONT COVER : Jonathan Tomlinson 's home-built 250hp tractor has speeded up silaging on the family livestock farm at Holt , Wrexham , and for contract work . |
| 6 | It made him feel grown up sitting at the same table as real university students ; engineers and agricultural science students , law or medicine , they had all sat and studied around the Hegarty dining table while young Frank was working for his Intermediate and his Leaving Certificate . |
| 7 | You get fed up working at the cos you have no day in it . |
| 8 | I got fed up working in the library on fine autumn days and went cross-country running . |
| 9 | Zborowski said nothing but went into his room and changed into worn summer clothes and came out carrying his only winter suit parcelled up to take to the pawnbroker . |
| 10 | This allows you to make a more considered approach than a telephone call and to use the job matching list you have drawn up to bring to the employer 's attention the reasons why you are suitable for the job and why you should be seen for interview . |
| 11 | Many thousands arrived by rail and road and local Kidderminster car-parks were specially opened up to cope with the volume of visitors . |
| 12 | The previous day the free speech people had drawn an acceptable cartoon which Eliot had agreed to publish and so they had given up going to the office . |
| 13 | In spite of this attitude by some of the die-hards , more and more money was being spent on new craft and equipment and our Technical Branch , which hitherto had concentrated on the maintenance on our fleet of small boarding launches , was being geared up to deal with the new cutter fleet . |
| 14 | What most Directors of Social Services are worried about is that the group of children that we 're now finding in children 's homes , are so disturbed , because of their past family backgrounds er and so , so problematic er with their behaviour , er that they 're now concerned to make sure that the children 's homes of the future are properly geared up to deal with the very difficult group of children . |
| 15 | While volunteers could be relied upon to make life as comfortable for them as possible , there 's concern about whether the professional agencies are geared up to help with the deeper anxieties . |
| 16 | She expelled her breath sharply , and automatically reached up to fiddle with the bun at her nape , easing her arms back , trying to release the tension mounting in her shoulders . |
| 17 | Do you have any reminiscences of the the Great War and the way it affected , were many of the men called up to serve from the area ? |
| 18 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 19 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 20 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 21 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 22 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 23 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 24 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 25 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 26 | According to Dr Peter Pratt , who heads the trust 's community health directorate , the unit is particularly well set up to respond to the increasing emphasis on non-hospital care in the NHS . |
| 27 | It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches . |
| 28 | The Board had been set up according to the provisions of the 1902 Education Act , which also created Local Education Authorities . |
| 29 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 30 | Before running the Validation program , ensure that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been set up to point to the configuration file for the LIFESPAN system being checked . |