Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] up [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Argyll plans to drum up more business with in-store dry cleaners and post offices . |
| 2 | Parker said the group intends to step up this activity until sales levels justify it setting up local operations . |
| 3 | The proposed exploratory research intends to follow up these ideas and to establish tentative assessments of these hypotheses so extending our understanding of effective schools and their long term influence . |
| 4 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 5 | Describes , among others , an impoverished frequenter of the Reading Room of the British Museum who pathetically tries to keep up some sort of genteel appearance . |