Example sentences of "[vb infin] up the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew where she had got the notion that he could buy up the whole of her street with the petty cash . |
| 2 | KEVIN Keegan has lodged a substantial bid for an unnamed player but wo n't tie up the deal in time for Saturday 's home game with Brighton . |
| 3 | Yeah , cos , the solder just li links into the big hole and you do n't want it cos it can screw up the size of the hole then . |
| 4 | You can just count up the number of rooms that you 're planning to do , ca n't you ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It would dry up the flow of Japanese credit to all American borrowers , private or public . |
| 7 | The lads will soon zip up the League with some of that stuff , know what I mean ? |
| 8 | If only they could conjour up the magic of their last meeting against Milwall last season … three nil the score then . |
| 9 | To a school librarian , the term might conjour up the image of compiling a computerized catalouge with details of resources held in the school library . |
| 10 | The Government , however , is likely to press ahead with legislation this autumn which will tighten up the law on secondary action . |
| 11 | THE CONCEPT of a Squatters ' Ball might conjure up the image of crusties in black tie and taffeta but this is n't yer average kind of ball . |
| 12 | Apart from legislation which might break up the unity of imperial law , some colonial legislation was likely to affect the interests of people in Britain directly . |
| 13 | It 's just a little bit sort of er the waves themselves are nice but I think they do need something else in it just to erm break up the linearity of the er er , of the composition . |
| 14 | He can break up the rhythm with the deceptive powers of a confidence trickster and made something happen from seemingly stagnant positions . |
| 15 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( Chandler guitars recommend holding the tremolo arm down to make adjustments ; you can then prop up the rear of the bridge with a small block of wood or the like ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'll fetch up the bath to you straight , and have Adam bring cans of water up here . ’ |
| 20 | If the manager can dress up the equipment as a way to increase efficiency , then he is far more likely to win his case than if he presents the hardware as a means of winning a political battle . |
| 21 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 22 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 23 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson . |
| 25 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 26 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 27 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 28 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 29 | When he was approached to run British Aerospace the government insisted he should give up the directorship of W$G , but Pearce , displaying his usual resolve , would n't hear of it . |
| 30 | For people who ca n't give up the taste of salt , health experts recommend switching to low-sodium salt alternatives . |