Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [verb] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a move to Brabham in 1978 , Lauda made the shock announcement during practice for the following year 's Canadian Grand Prix that he was retiring to concentrate on building up Lauda-Air , his own airline company . |
| 2 | By volunteering to help in follow up activities planned for the autumn — perhaps a weeknight club for children , nurture groups for children and/or adults ; we sha n't know exactly until after the club has finished . |
| 3 | Malcolm also made that contact when he and Bernie went on a trip up north , searching round textile factories for old fifties cloth to use for making up zoot suits . |
| 4 | It 's all to do with squashing up waves and spreading them out . ’ |
| 5 | The agreement , which committed both parties to refrain from stepping up arms shipments during the next four months , also called on other arms suppliers , notably Pakistan and Saudi Arabia , to follow suit , stressing that any further assistance to Afghanistan should be purely humanitarian . |
| 6 | Claudius was forced to decide between giving up Britain altogether , abandoning the conquest of Caesar and the unfulfilled hopes of Augustus , or an armed invasion to secure the island and transform it into a province . |
| 7 | A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did . |
| 8 | Yet , it was an argument over how to pay for cleaning up pollution which in May 1989 collapsed the Christian Democrat-Liberal coalition . |
| 9 | Worrying about your weight is more likely to lead to comforting yourself with a piece of chocolate that it is to assist in burning up calories . |
| 10 | If the subjects with pneumonia were more likely to return for follow up visits than those without this could have resulted in an overestimation of the incidence of bacterial pneumonia among the drug users who seroconverted . |
| 11 | All participants were interviewed by using a standard questionnaire and were asked to return for follow up examination every four months . |
| 12 | that is more than Mark Enson and Mark Nicholas earned from their benefits , more even than Kenny Dalglish has been able to spend on building up Blackburn Rovers into a middle-of-the-table Second Division team . |