Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 2 | It should also drum up more work for a profession that has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 3 | You know that you could line up six guitarists with the same gear and they 'd all sound different … |
| 4 | Gookey , 21 , has made rapid progress at 200 metres this year but will line up second favourite for that event and for the 100 metres , which he won last year , if Sale 's European junior champion attempts a sprint double at Blackpool . |
| 5 | It is not possible to predict the types of security interests that will be created in the future and requiring registration of some such unforeseen interests could be unnecessarily burdensome ; even with respect to the known types of legal charge , particularly those conferring the right to possession , it would produce overkill ; and lastly it is claimed that to require the registration of all charges could dry up certain types of secured borrowing . |
| 6 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 7 | They must scoop up or snap up huge numbers of insects each day to fill their stomachs , and each insect contains a large percentage of rather non-nutritious outer-covering . |
| 8 | I do hope Chesky manages to reissue Wild 's legendary RCA recording of the Scharwenka First Piano Concerto , but in the meantime all connoisseurs of superb piano playing should snap up this disc without delay . |
| 9 | The disadvantage from the British point of view is that Albert Woods , Chairman of the ICF Slalom & WWR Committee , would no longer head up both disciplines in the event of a split . |
| 10 | It was during the night that she would conjure up this picture of herself ; in the daytime she was practical . |
| 11 | And the writer can only conjure up this gift for the reader if he/she is prepared , first of all , to write plainly what he/she believes to be true , rather than fall for the surface sweetmeats which seem to satisfy but which , like sugar , leave the reader hungry minutes later . |
| 12 | Therefore , will he ensure that the district health authority does not break up that team in order to move it to Telford to try to keep an under-used district general hospital busy ? |
| 13 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 14 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 15 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 16 | Some 30 named attendees heard a long and detailed speech from the Mayor in which he hinted that ‘ for reasons which he need not go into they must give up all idea of the links becoming the property of the town ’ . |
| 17 | But although Cuvier won immense prestige for his work as a comparative anatomist , he was unable to convince many naturalists that they should give up all hope of being able to predict the overall pattern of natural relationships and hence the ‘ missing ’ species still waiting to be discovered . |
| 18 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't give up those laughs for anything , ’ he told Time magazine . |
| 20 | ‘ If that happens while he is in our custody , ’ continued Miles , ‘ you can give up any hope of getting your brother back ; and we need him . ’ |
| 21 | The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 . |
| 22 | It circles around the graves of our fathers , and we will never give up these graves to any man . |
| 23 | This will clear up any mysteries from this morning 's lesson and set the scene for tonight 's exercise . |
| 24 | Clearly , if we are expecting our advertising to work in a particular way , against a particular sub-group of consumers , we should do our research in such a way that it will show up this sort of effect . |
| 25 | They should show up Tory authorities for not providing nursery provision . |
| 26 | Even so , I they can go and look up that lot of words in Shakespeare . |
| 27 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |
| 28 | I 'm gon na suggest to you that er if w if we 're going to think about channels of communication then we could arguably divide up inter-personal communication to three broad sets of channels so it will will be familiar to some students already I think , er but not certainly not to many second years . |
| 29 | Can you work up any sympathy for them ? |
| 30 | On telemarketing , the code insists that companies must ring up prospective clients at reasonable hours , do not use high pressure sales tactics and allow prospective purchasers a ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they can change their minds . |