Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 2 | It was only a matter of time before somebody thought of seeding Antarctic atmosphere to plug up the ozone hole . |
| 3 | In Whitehall , three words came to sum up the appointments policy . |
| 4 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 5 | We had to write up the parrot sketch in English and this French translated in French for us . |
| 6 | So an optimistic note for the pub trade , but a pessimistic one for Oxfordshire 's only two-man brewery , because it 's struggling to survive against tough competition from the major breweries and the are concerned that the Government proposals to shake up the brewing industry wo n't really help them . |
| 7 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 8 | Giving very high lift with small drag at take-off , but high lift and high drag on landing , these flaps could be used to tighten up the turning radius in combat . |
| 9 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |
| 10 | After all , ’ he continued , deftly manipulating half a loaf of garlic bread to sop up the tomato juice on his last platter , ‘ you never saw anybody fat come out of Auschwitz . ’ |
| 11 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 12 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 13 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 14 | The council is in the process of trying to clean up the allotment area . |
| 15 | So the advice from the C E E , C , C E C is support composites twenty six and twenty seven support motions three six nine and three seventy support three seven one and three seven two with the qualifications given support the campaign for pension fund democracy and let's work hard to clean up the pension scandal in Britain . |
| 16 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 17 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |
| 18 | On Saturday , more than 15,000 demonstrators ignored an official ban and rain to march through Minsk demanding local authorities do more to clean up the Chernobyl accident . |
| 19 | If we wish to progress up the football ladder , I can only see us doing so by winning promotion . |
| 20 | TGI Friday 's provides opportunities for people to progress up the career ladder and it is the individual characteristics , such as personality and drive , that could enable them to move from , for example , bartender to general manager over a period of time . |
| 21 | And to pick up a deposit cheque . |
| 22 | For Jackie I 'll try to pick up a paperback book . |
| 23 | He walked over to the neatly stacked rods and selected one , then bent to pick up a wicker fishing box from a corner of the room . |
| 24 | She leaned forward to pick up a cigarette box . |
| 25 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 26 | Is that not sort of I mean , I was n't aware that anybody was n't supposed to pick up a fire appliance or not . |
| 27 | He threw the orange to one of the theatre-goers , then stooped to pick up a glass jug , keeping the book and the saucepan going . |
| 28 | Now before you do anything , if we set set it to pick up the Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four |
| 29 | to pick up the lunch papers and er anyway one , one night I was wa walking across and er my dad called out what you doing ? |
| 30 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |