Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [to-vb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 2 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland were required by this Act to set up management committees for further education institutions , with some degree of autonomy , instead of managing them directly . |
| 3 | In contrast to this move to open up broadcasting to the free market , there is the desire to monitor and control output . |
| 4 | This ability to summon up images , both photographic and diagrammatic , and explanatory texts within a matter of seconds is quite hypnotic , and very much in line with the television mind-set of the computer generation . |
| 5 | Further investment is needed to allow the consortium to open another coalface to speed up production . |
| 6 | Congress ( I ) continued at this stage to prop up Chandra Shekhar 's fragile minority Janata Dal ( S ) government but extracted a number of major concessions for its support . |
| 7 | HOLLYWOOD producers are scrambling over each other to snap up rights to top-secret data on some of the biggest Cold War spy scandals . |
| 8 | Without those heavy caveats , greenery will become one more excuse to foul up trade . |
| 9 | As with TA , unless you are fond of playing with computer programmes ask someone more expert to set up CC for you . |
| 10 | The first summer of John James ' control saw the company with neither cloth to make up winter clothes nor money with which to buy it . |
| 11 | She admitted she had come from London to gain recruits for the Communist Party , but denied any attempt to stir up strife . |
| 12 | Wickham refilled her glass , telling her to cheer up because he had nothing like enough evidence to lock up Tavett . |
| 13 | Reception was , and still is , poor in many parts of the country , but with ingenuity and a certain amount of patient tuning it is possible in any area to pick up services from transmitters in Lusaka , Kabwe , Livingstone and the Copperbelt . |
| 14 | , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a |