Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're ecstatic , I ca n't conjure up the superlatives to say how I feel . ’ |
| 3 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 4 | The Telford church is a suitable place to start and you can just angle up the hillside to gain the ridge to Creag Ruadh , the red crag , a good first viewpoint . |
| 5 | Dana would n't give up the chance to shine in front of all the heads of the fashion world . |
| 6 | In relays , each team tries to drink water in identical jugs from a spoon , until at the end they can lift up the jugs to drink . |
| 7 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 8 | But why not pluck up the courage to do what you 've always wanted ? |
| 9 | One day I will pluck up the courage to quiz her . |
| 10 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 11 | Other people 's perceptions of us are there to be collected if only we can pluck up the courage to ask for them . |
| 12 | I know of only one or two couples who have managed to stay together when one partner has been unfaithful and I wish I could pluck up the courage to ask them how they 've done it . |
| 13 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 14 | But how did you pluck up the courage to tell the aunt ? ’ |
| 15 | SHADOW Health Secretary Dave Blunkett vowed that Labour would keep up the fight to stop the Tories ruining the NHS . |
| 16 | However frustrating , Labour leaders must keep up the attack to put Britain back to work . |
| 17 | We shall certainly keep up the pressure to achieve that , in the interests of Swan Hunter and many other fine firms in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | ‘ I will constantly keep up the pressure to identify the murderer of L/Cpl Edwards . |
| 19 | Alternatively , you could set up the WP3–7 to give two different volume levels , different sounds for slap and fingerstyle , different EQs for your fretted and fretless basses , or any other combination . |
| 20 | Possible candidates for Atherton 's place are Somerset youngster Mark Lathwell and England vice-captain Alec Stewart , who could move up the order to open if Jack Russell was recalled as wicketkeeper . |
| 21 | Many people would take up the opportunity to train in a completely new craft . |
| 22 | Maybe we should call up the McKeans to say we got back safely ; you can ask after Julie … ’ |
| 23 | At the presentation , Sir Humphry did not pass up the chance to impress upon the business world the great value of science to their endeavours : ‘ Science , gentlemen , is of infinitely more importance to a state than may at first sight appear possible ; for no source of wealth and power can be entirely independent of it ; and no class of men are so well able to appreciate its advantages as that to which I am addressing myself . |
| 24 | ‘ I played some electric guitar as well , because I 'd never pass up the chance to play electric — I really like it better . |
| 25 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 26 | How did you get up the station to meet them ? |
| 27 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 28 | I have to drag myself out of bed each day , and I ca n't get up the energy to do any housework . |
| 29 | To promote epoflex , the administration is telling states that it will put up the cash to lay test stripes . |
| 30 | He says that sponsors would n't put up the cash to pay for a judge to travel abroad . |