Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the problem about , er two two does include , two does include going around drumming up customers , but the difficulty with that is it seems to me that that you 'll need to drum up the customers in year one and only get the money |
| 2 | Not all the personal pronouns in the Sonnets , of course , are significant of personal relationships , and for this reason it is not enough just to tot up the figures in a computer-made concordance . |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 5 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ Italian security chiefs .. have pledged to lock up the yobs in Sardinia 's notorious Buoncamino Prison and leave them there until AFTER the World Cup ends . ’ |
| 7 | One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories . |
| 8 | In a move that runs counter its commitment to clean up the environment in former East Germany , the German government has agreed to exempt a huge rubbish tip near Schonberg near the Baltic coast from its regulations for a five year period . |
| 9 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 10 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |
| 11 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 12 | Then say that you are going to pick up the cards in any order , which you do keeping the pairs together . |
| 13 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 14 | The next writer , Erica De'Ath , begins to open up the field in which child care needs arise , families and children , and the many changing patterns of family life which characterize the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 16 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 17 | The aim of the meeting will be to find out whether there is enough interest to set up the venture in Clwyd . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 19 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 20 | Memories being short , it may be forgotten that until comparatively recently a spin bowler was allowed to rough up the ball in the dust to help his grip . |
| 21 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 22 | One obvious way of finding out what grammar is is to look up the term in a dictionary . |
| 23 | Japanese officials plead that they do not have the power to carve up the market in this way . |
| 24 | More than 70,000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters in the past year . |
| 25 | From the hostel it was only a short tube ride to South Audley Street where Madame Mattli had her showrooms — yet another advantage , Paula thought , trying to weigh up the points in favour of the hostel , which she hated on sight . |
| 26 | Mr. Anderson : If we are to fill up the beds in our very welcome Holiday Inn in Swansea , we need , as the Secretary of State will be aware , to clean up Swansea bay . |
| 27 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 28 | She did not believe Labour was now the party of home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? |
| 29 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |
| 30 | In a personal attack on Mr Kinnock — a prime target for the Conservative counter-offensive — she added : ‘ If it 's that easy for the Labour leader to give up the principles in which he does believe , wo n't it be even easier for him to give up the principles in which he does not believe ? ’ |