Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] up [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report from US National Park Service scientists has argued that the proposed use of underground water systems by the city of Las Vegas may dry up water supplies in a large area of the National Park system . |
| 2 | ‘ Caroline , ’ said the music teacher , ‘ I think you should give up violin lessons and try the piano instead . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe he should follow up Lenny Campion 's suggestion , have his eyes tested for strain . |
| 4 | Strong growth helped by last year 's rights issue and improved sales should mark up profits 22% to £400m , says UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 5 | It reaffirmed that LEAs must set up education committees and appoint a chief education officer , but the Secretary of State need no longer be consulted about the appointment of the latter . |
| 6 | The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys . |
| 7 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 8 | Mr Gummer should pick up Mr MacSharry 's ideas and remould them to meet sensible criteria . |
| 9 | And I 'll beat up Tony Adams after . |
| 10 | If you enjoy a whodunnit , you 'll lap up Janet Laurence 's Hotel Morgue ( Macmillan , £12.99 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll ring up Uncle Bean , and ask him to come and fetch us , ’ Nutty decided , but the Nicholsons had no phone and the nearest call-box was past the cinema in the town-centre . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll go up Glen Gelder . |
| 13 | Fund officials fear that the budget deficit may swell this year from 37 billion pesos ( $1.5 billion ) in 1992 to 75 billion pesos , or 6% of GDP , which might push up interest rates again . |
| 14 | Come on let's ring up Aunty Felicity . |
| 15 | She wished she could ring up John Coffin to ask what they wanted . |
| 16 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Americans could draw up contingency plans on the assumption that there would be air bases in Egypt from which to strike against southern Russia . |
| 18 | Perhaps England could sign up Bernard Tapie for the games next week . |
| 19 | Yeah well it well it 'd take up disk space unnecessarily |
| 20 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 21 | She could read up Guillain-Barré Syndrome . |
| 22 | Then you could walk up Madison Avenue and see a fake in the window . |
| 23 | Cos that you see if you , if you , if you could link up life assurance to your pension you could get tax relief on your life assurance you see ? |
| 24 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 25 | well I said we 'd pick up aunty Jean at twenty too eight |
| 26 | Mr Milken could rustle up debt investors with a handful of telephone calls . |
| 27 | American firms , for instance , may set up EC subsidiaries . |
| 28 | Nobody in the markets seems to believe that the Chancellor dare put up interest rates this side of the general election . |
| 29 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 30 | England may call up Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman Richard Blakey for the fourth game at Lord 's tomorrow . |