Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Later on in the day I wander up to Low Force with no boat and no-one except my girlfriend and the fish trying to swim and jump up the fall for company .
2 With the league regionalised over Winter it 's almost certain that Clwyd , Gwynedd and Powys teams will prop up the table for a couple of months .
3 In a move that will prop up the market for contemporary Quebecois art , and at the same time foster the province 's quest to reinforce its distinct cultural identity , the government of Quebec has guaranteed a C$5.4 million ( £2.25 million ; $4.5 million ) bank loan on behalf of the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montreal , enabling that institution to purchase en bloc 1,300 works ninety percent contemporary Quebecois amassed by the bankrupt engineering firm Lavalin Inc .
4 How might an organization divide up the responsibility for marketing activities between its sub-divisions and head office ?
5 OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords .
6 Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs .
7 Then you can boil up the carcass for a turkey soup or stock .
8 On the other hand the journalist can not simply mark up the caption for printing ; it will have to be retyped .
9 We can keep up the pressure for more treaties just as public pressure led to the signing of the INF treaty in 1987 .
10 It 'll keep up the demand for English actors .
11 At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through .
12 If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you .
13 ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground .
14 I wish someone would come and blow up the school for us .
15 I 'll set up the interviews for you . ’
16 She did want it , but it 's Mark Got ta go up the town for anything ?
17 ‘ Thanks , but … if you could just print up the photos for me … ’
18 The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time .
19 Pay-as-you-go means that today s contributors pay for the pension of today 's retired people — on the basis that the next generation will pick up the bill for today 's contributors when they retire .
20 There is a growing , often unstated , anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services .
21 It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems .
22 If that involves an overnight stay the scheme will pick up the bill for accommodation .
23 If the equipment is damaged it is unclear who will pick up the bill for its repair or replacement .
24 It 's the expensive side of medicine , you see , that the public will pick up the bill for , so you 've got to try and have a balance between these things .
25 He would n't pick up the tab for anyone else .
26 His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself .
27 Erm we will pay we will pick up the tab for your hotel .
28 In addition , my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses .
29 According to Shaw : ‘ If we do what we say we are going to do for investors they will put up the money for T&L if it has a good acquisition opportunity .
30 Nevertheless , she did put up the money for the construction of Roshanara Bagh , a pleasure garden on the far outskirts of Shahjehanabad .
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