Example sentences of "and [vb infin] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS . |
| 2 | Around a quarter of the managers were unemployed , he said , and the parents of the boys would have to try and make up the increase . |
| 3 | The artist would reproduce that grid onto a studio canvas in a proportionately larger scale , using it as a sequence of reference points by which to plot and paint up the landscape configuration exactly to the Design drawing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Police said 65-year-old James McQuaker left his house in Wellbeck Avenue at about 9pm to close and lock up the Haughton Road service station before returning home twenty minutes later with cash and credit vouchers . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 7 | anybody can camouflage and bring up the colouring you know . |
| 8 | The northern part is also worth visiting though , and there are several excellent areas to rest and soak up the sun and the atmosphere . |
| 9 | But everyone enjoyed the opportunity to relax , socialise and soak up the sun . |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll just collapse and give up the ghost somewhere in France . |
| 11 | The school was closed on Wednesday as well so people had time to dry out and clear up the mess that the water had made . |
| 12 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 13 | I wish someone would come and blow up the school for us . |
| 14 | On his way to his tent , he fell in with a captain who told him gloomily that three men had individually been sent in to find and blow up the magazine , and all had presumably died . |
| 15 | However , they do appear to gently tighten and tone up the surface of the skin ( albeit temporarily ) and moisturise at the same time so skin feels softer and smoother . |
| 16 | The adventurers have to head for the hill , but as they do it appears that the grey trees begin to grow and spread up the hillside . |
| 17 | He added , ‘ The jackals will come tonight and lick up the blood . ’ |
| 18 | come home and I thought well I 'll drop that , I 'll stay and go up the ladder and I was gon na do painting you got him Hey up ! ! |
| 19 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 20 | She was looking resolutely away , so that Tug could feel what an effort it took her not to bend down and pick up the pieces . |
| 21 | We have a 24-hour claims helpline ; breakdown assistance — if you have an accident , a tow-truck to come and pick up the car ; and much better documentation . ’ |
| 22 | When you do not bend your knees then the back muscles have to support and pick up the weight of your torso , arms and head ( 70 per cent of your body weight ) , as well as the object you are carrying . |
| 23 | Lorrimer or one of the Police Liaison Officers were the only people authorised to lock and open up the building . |
| 24 | In the face of sustained congressional hostility to his August 1991 proposals , which had envisaged a total of 44 constitutional reforms to liberalize and open up the economy and reform fiscal policy [ see p. 38388 ] , Collor offered on Oct. 4 a revised set of proposals , involving only 13 amendments to eight articles . |
| 25 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 26 | In order to publicise his efforts to redesign and brighten up the Champs Elysées , the Mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac , has given the go-ahead to an open air exhibition devised jointly by his own City Hall and gallery owner Didier Imbert . |
| 27 | Sparc International , which is currently at version 8 of the Sparc interface definition , said the 64-bit stuff in version 9 will be just ‘ the tip of the iceberg , ’ and that it would be putting out the new specifications ‘ relatively soon : ’ it still has to go and dig up the stuff from down at Sun Labs . |
| 28 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 29 | Could I point out to members that we did have er written replies to try and speed up the question process , could I ask members both in asking the question and especially in answering , not to make it another speech occasion because otherwise it destroys the whole purpose of having the written replies . |
| 30 | As part of this strategy , senior managers are using FDC to improve and speed up the production of monthly reports . |