Example sentences of "[to-vb] up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hopes to drum up the support of sympathetic congressmen who blame the law for high fares . |
| 2 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 3 | Yet although the cherubic muse blowing its horn for the brave new world seemed to the Festival staff to sum up the kind of things they were trying to say about the EIF , there remained one potent snag . |
| 4 | If we attempt to sum up the character of these innovations , we must say that they are practical but unprincipled . |
| 5 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 6 | ( 28/12/92 ) : Stephen , Richard Newcombe and I went to sum up the move to Ron Davies 's barn . |
| 7 | It was a typically snotty remark from this doyenne of the Charity Organisation Society which , nevertheless , managed to sum up the gulf between social classes at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | It is difficult to sum up the succession of kings and sub kings who schemed and killed their way to brief spells of power — eight of them in one century — or to keep in steady perspective the shifting boundaries and aspirations of petty earldoms and self-proclaimed kingdoms . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | When you have researched a ley , by map , field and archive , you are then in a position to write up the material for possible publication in a magazine such as The Ley Hunter . |
| 11 | The stock must be grown on as though nothing has happened — the top growth is needed to pull up the sap from the roots , past and into contact with the bud . |
| 12 | If we delay making a decision about an interpretation we can allow later , high-scoring information to pull up the score of the earlier element . |
| 13 | The IMF takes West Germany to task for failing to shake up the supply-side of its arthritic economy . |
| 14 | It has been one of the cliches of modern liberalism , since at least the time of de Tocqueville and the younger Mill , to dwell on the possible , even probable , disjunction between democracy and liberty , to stress the fact that popular rule does not necessarily imply personal freedom , and to conjure up the spectacle of the " tyranny of the majority " . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when she had been to a romantic film , or had been kissed good-night by Pogo , she had sat on the edge of her bed , staring at that dark , handsome , boy 's face and tried to conjure up the memory of his living presence . |
| 16 | The first cassation seems to conjure up the beauty of music in a summer garden at night . |
| 17 | The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face . |
| 18 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 19 | This is partly because the word itself tends to conjure up the picture of performing some type of vigorous sport . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it is too far south to be properly seen from Britain or the northern United States , but when high up it is truly impressive , and it is easy to conjure up the picture of a scorpion from the long line of bright stars , with the ‘ head ’ and the ‘ sting ’ . |
| 21 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 22 | SMALL Firms Minister Eric Forth refused to disclose the Government 's view on a plea from small businessmen to tighten up the law on bouncing cheques . |
| 23 | In an effort to tighten up the administration of poor relief the Local Government Board issued a circular in 1871 to the effect that outdoor relief should not be granted to the able-bodied widow with one child . |
| 24 | He said the council intends to tighten up the by-law on dog fouling making it an offence for owners not to clear up after their dogs . |
| 25 | Used it to patch up the hole in our roof . |
| 26 | THEY may be trying to patch up the rift in their marriage . |
| 27 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 28 | In 1848 , Engels had viewed Europe as a general , deploying as his armies subject peoples to lock up the gendarme of Europe , Tsarist Russia . |
| 29 | The single hydraulic pump was always one of the Apache 's less attractive features because , if the left-hand engine failed after take-off , you had to operate the emergency handpump to raise the wheels at a time when it is essential to clean up the airframe without delay . |
| 30 | Cartoonists draw pictures and make jokes about who had to clean up the mess below decks , or how many rabbits there were on board when the flood went down . |